BEACH PEA
DAISY FLEABANE
OX EYE DAISY
AMERICAN VETCHSaturday, 7:00 AM. 67 degrees, wind SW, quite windy with strong gusts. The sky is mostly overcast with high gray storm clouds and the barometer predicts rain. Minnesota was hit hard with severe storms yesterday but hopefully we have dodged the worst weather and this will blow over.
The fields and roadsides are now filled with wild and naturalized flowers. The American vetch, Vicea Americana, a spreading legume, is growing along Eighth Street. The beach pea, Lathyrus japonica, is a circumpolar sea and lakeshore plant, our variety glabera is specific to the great lakes shores. It is very pretty, the peas more or less edible, grows everywhere hereabouts but is quite invasive.
The daisy fleabanes are a large group of annual and perennial daisy-like flowers. This one may be wild or a garden variety.
The common ox eye daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, is a garden escape of European origin that has naturalized everywhere.
We are still catching up from our absence, the lawn needs to be mowed and the emails read
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