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.
Howard, Just ask the owner.
Howard, Just ask the owner. I know you are not shy :) They would tell ya. GREAT PICS !!!
LIKE
LIKE
The yellow flowers look like
The yellow flowers look like Bird's Foot. It might be called Trefoil or Bird's Foot Trefoil. Beautiful flowers, nonetheless.
The yellow flower is called
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.
Here's info on Evening
Here's info on Evening Primrose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenothera
Nothing like the tiny little flowers in the picture.
Howard, I offer this valuable
Howard, I offer this valuable cheat sheet of information:
http://picasaweb.google.com/frankbroughton/WNYWeedsWildflowers
(edit) I lost the one for our area.
The yellow flower is NOT
The yellow flower is NOT Onoethera sp. (Evening primrose). It is what Brandon mentions, Birdsfoot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), it's pretty much a weed.
No flower is a weed. Though,
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.
"A weed is a plant whose
"A weed is a plant whose virtue has not yet been discovered."
Emerson
Ah, well I went to school for
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.
When I see flowers that I
When I see flowers that I like outside a business I usually will ask the owner what they are. But they are beautiful.