Roadsides

Plant Database
a cluster of reddish brown samaras.
Tree of Heaven
Ailanthus altissima
Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata Small plant with green heart shaped leaves
Garlic Mustard
Alliaria petiolata
Tall spire of smaller purple flowers with yellow and white stamen
Indigo Bush
Amorpha fruticosa
The delicate, dusty pink starburst flowers of showy milkweed
Showy Milkweed
Asclepias speciosa
close up leaf edges
False Brome
Brachypodium sylvaticum
Italian Thistle Carduus pycnocephalus Stalk with long spiky leaves and green spiky unopened flower pod
Italian Thistle
Carduus pycnocephalus
an attractive evergreen shrub; low growing with clusters of white flowers at tips.
Snowbrush
Ceanothus velutinus
Meadow Knapweed Centaurea pratensis Purple flowers on long stems
Meadow Knapweed
Centaurea pratensis (aka Centaurea jacea x nigra, Centaurea debeauxii ssp. thuillieri)
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