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Stand by for a thread of wildflower pics from today's walk, added to slowly as I identify them. To start: a whole bunch of crown vetch.
I will never forget those flowers are a type of vetch thanks to the hours I once spent looking fruitlessly through pictures of clover for a match. (The leaves are completely different.)
Red clover here.
Red clover here.
Better pic of the bird's foot trefoil that was also in the red clover pic. Incidentally, some white clover here.
I think these yellow ones are all coneflowers. The ones with the orange centers almost definitely are. There are also purple coneflower varieties, but I don't think I saw any today.
Ox-eye daisies.
This might be milk vetch? The leaves look very vetch-like anyway. Flower identification is more of an art than a science for me.
I think these are white and yellow sweet clovers, but I never have the patience to look at the leaves closely enough to be sure.
This looks like it might be a pea plant of some kind. If you zoom in, you can see a few little tendrils by the leaves.
Not sure about these guys. Some kind of aster?
And finally... A young green teasel. Supposedly, people used to use the mature seed heads for carding wool!
