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Photos: Flowers in Batavia

By Howard B. Owens

After visiting with Kyle on the public banks of the Tonawanda, I pointed my bike down Walnut Street and then headed down Law Street. When I got to the point where I'd again cross the Tonawanda, I spotted the daisies above and stopped for a picture.

The Tonawanda made a nice background for this single stem of grass.

A small yellow flower growing on the bank of the Tonawanda (can anybody identify it?)

Back on Jackson Street: Every year, I stop at least once to admire this rose bush. I can't identify the variety, but I'm pretty sure it is some sort of old world/heirloom rose.  

jACQUELYN MEACHAM

The yellow flower is called Evening Primrose. I brought one small piece home from a yard sale and now I have hundreds and they are just starting to open now.

Jun 13, 2011, 2:38pm Permalink
Cory Hawley

The yellow flower is NOT Onoethera sp. (Evening primrose). It is what Brandon mentions, Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), it's pretty much a weed.

Jun 13, 2011, 10:23pm Permalink
Howard B. Owens

No flower is a weed.

Though, they can be non-native and invasive, but I can never bring myself to call a flower a weed. I'm even taking a liking to dandelions these days.

Jun 13, 2011, 10:31pm Permalink
Cory Hawley

Ah, well I went to school for horticulture so my brain works that way:) Any plant that grows where you don't want it to is a weed. Grass can be. Roses can be. Or one that causes native species to decline.
The water iris that is flowering now in the swamps (yellow) is a non native weed from Europe. Attractive but still a weed.

Jun 13, 2011, 11:40pm Permalink

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