Post by BuckSkin on Jul 5, 2022 16:39:40 GMT
Wednesday_08-June-2022
Nodding Thistle or Musk Thistle
Carduus nutans
I have been here since 1998 and have been all over this seven acres of diverse Flora countless times each year; and, this is the very first of these I have ever seen on our place.
Funny thing is, it is not growing in some back side fencerow, but right beside the driveway in deep creek-gravel and #5 Limestone Rock where it has been regularly boom-sprayed several times each summer; for whatever reason, that area missed getting sprayed this spring.
As seen here, there is a single stalk with a single bloom; by 20th June, twelve days later, it had developed what Tobacco growers would call a "sucker" = the stalk branched lower down with a smaller bloom on that branch.
By the end of the month, both blooms had pretty much dried up.
You can learn all about them at US Forest Service and Wikipedia.
I hope you like it.
Nodding Thistle or Musk Thistle
Carduus nutans
I have been here since 1998 and have been all over this seven acres of diverse Flora countless times each year; and, this is the very first of these I have ever seen on our place.
Funny thing is, it is not growing in some back side fencerow, but right beside the driveway in deep creek-gravel and #5 Limestone Rock where it has been regularly boom-sprayed several times each summer; for whatever reason, that area missed getting sprayed this spring.
As seen here, there is a single stalk with a single bloom; by 20th June, twelve days later, it had developed what Tobacco growers would call a "sucker" = the stalk branched lower down with a smaller bloom on that branch.
By the end of the month, both blooms had pretty much dried up.
You can learn all about them at US Forest Service and Wikipedia.
I hope you like it.
