Birdsfoot trefoil and white campion

These are common plants, you can find them flowering now. These pictures were taken June 10, 2009. This is at Cumberland Park in West Lafayette. It's at the edge of the pond just north of the park woods. The paved trail goes right alongside this.


The yellow flowers are birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculata). Easy to spot from a distance as you drive around the Lafayette area. It lays low near the ground under the taller grasses.

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These white flowers are bladder campion (Silene latifolia alba).

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This grass is smooth brome grass (Bromus inermis). It's very common along roadsides and easy to spot.

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Crown Vetch

Crown vetch (Securigera varia), near Wabash Landing area in West Lafayette. Pictures taken June 8, 2009. A synonym is Coronilla varia.

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Moth Mullein

Moth mullein (Verbascum blattaria). West Lafayette near Wabash Landing area. Pictures taken June 7, 2009.

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The bank of white flowers in the background is hemlock (Conium maculatum).

The green flowerless plant to the left of the moth mullein is teasel (Dipsaucus fullonum).  It will be flowering soon.

The pink flowers to the left of the moth mullein is crown vetch (Securigera varia).

The brown dried plant to the right of the moth mullein is field pennycress (Thalaspi arvense).  A cool season plant, it is done with its life cycle and gone to seed.

There are two kinds of thistle that are visible to the right of the moth mullein.

Violet sage

This is violet sage, a common landscaping plant that they use around here. The picture above is at the downtown Lafayette post office. The picture below is in front of the Lafayette Holiday Inn. It's Salvia nemorosa or the closely related hybrid Salvia x superba. Or maybe another Salvia cultivar. Above picture taken June 3, 2009. Picture below taken June 6, 2009.


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Chicken of the Woods mushroom

This chicken of the woods mushroom (Laetiporus cincinnatus) is at Ross Hills County Park. Picture taken May 30, 2009.

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Parthenocissus tricuspidata

Varsity Apartments in the West Lafayette village is covered with Parthenocissus tricuspidata. If a drunk stumbles out of Harry's and gets lost in the ivy it is called a ground rule double. Pictures taken June 2, 2009.

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Cottonwood

This cottonwood tree (Populus deltoides) stands next to the pedestrian bridge at the Wabash. Early morning, May 30, 2009.