2012 started out with a warm March and plenty of early moisture. By summer, very hot weather came and the rains completely stopped, and we had a pretty good drought. There was a lot of color through June but after that most of the wildflowers started to shut down for the year.
Grayhead and upright coneflowers
Facing North
Looking good
Nice clumps of grasses
Savanna area running along stream
Ohio Spiderwort
Blue Flax
Where water drains weeds are more of a problem
Smooth Penstemon
Aphrodite Fritillary?
Sideoats grama
New england aster blooming over 2 months early
Purple coneflower
Black-eyed susan and blanketflower
Hoary vervain
Mexican red hat coneflower
Sideoats grama grass
Mix of forbs
Grayhead coneflower
Little bluestem grass
Nice diversity of forbs and grasses
False sunflower
Switchgrass is 6′ tall
Nice cluster of purple coneflowers
Grayhead coneflower has long petals
Wild bergamot is 6′ tall!
Playing around with new macro lens
Ohio Spiderwort
Bee on Grayhead Coneflower
No idea what type of fly it is
Crab spider
Wild Bergamot
Canada Wildrye
Macro of leaf
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