Not a milkweedNot a milkweed?Maybe a milkweed Known milkweed (probably viridiflora)The skinny adult leaves of known milkweed. New book The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants by Diboll and Cox mentions many milkweeds first adult leaves are skinny even if the eventual adult leaves are broad. Either that or I got the species wrong. One of two Blackfoot daisy survived earwigs and is now growing flower buds and a few new leaves!Perennial coreopsis begins!Briar was pretty miffed it rained HARD most of the day. So before our walk she curled up in disgust right on my big Liatris mucronata from home. Thanks. The Mexican Sage from Judy is up!A sedge?Partridge peaOldplainsmanMysteryCaliche planter babiesThe tomatoes have gotten a bit sunburnt from past rain with sunlight after, so this time I flicked water off and put them in a less intensely sunny spot. Trying to get them hardened off for planting. Like Briar, Shacks was disappointed by rain and not being out. Paula brought him some favorite juicy grass and he loved it.
Butterfly milkweed.Wild heliotrope.Had leaves like greenthread but a yellow center on flower.Compass plants all facing what we think was east.Bigger view of the compass plant valley.A megachilid bee on butterfly milkweed!A whole field of Echinacea!Rosa sp. I know this one. I’ll look it up. Edit: wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), thanks Mom 🙂Happy!!!!A Dun Skipper on prairie bluets.Asclepias viridiflora (thanks Abby and Mom!)Shade good for fluffy dog.Another view of the Echinacea field.Note the matching orange dog in background.I remember this plant.She tried to get humans to join her but we’re no fun.