Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

[Carol Dee]

Here's a weed, IDed this plant last year, but forgot what it is already...lol.

Some type of Milk Weed.

 

[Smart Red]

Here's a weed, IDed this plant last year, but forgot what it is already...lol.

It is a bumble bee. Oops, you were looking at the plant. Looks like a milkweed from a south-est, central-est Wisconsin gardener's viewpoint.

 

[secuono]

I remembered early this morning that it's a Milkweed. Edited the pic.

 

[thistlebloom]

@Lavender2 , your peppers are the TEG POW, featured on the home page!

 

[Wishin']

Lavender, awesome photo, such a cool plant. Are those peppers for show or are they edible?

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

A landmark that I use to find my way around. (A break in the tree line with some dead sycamores (?) sticking out of it. The sycamores are actually surprisingly white.) The trees look close but were actually far away from where I was standing.

 

[Smart Red]

@TheSeedObsessor, I love the color or sycamore trunks -- all grey-ish/white with splotchy off-neutral colors. One of my fave trees -- alive, of course. Are there other sycamores growing wild around your area?

Old cottonwoods are pretty much the same grey-ish/white color, without the splotchy effect. Judging from the shape I'd guess they were dead cottonwoods or poplars.

 

[TheSeedObsesser]

They're definitely cottonwoods, the only poplars growing here (excluding the cottonwoods, they are a kind of poplar if I remember right) were planted on purpose as ornamental trees - I'm referring to the relatively small area were I've thoroughly explored the wilderness, always possible that there are some actual wild ones (excluding cottonwoods) growing nearby. Any sycamores that I've found were growing at lower elevations.

An idea - do you think that creating a thread or similar for anybody that's interested to document their wild plant finds on? Or would that get too big too fast?

 

[thistlebloom]

I think a thread like that could be really interesting SeedO.
Go for it!

 

[journey11]

I love sycamores...so stately and elegant. They really like the creek banks here and get very large in diameter, like up to 5'. They grow in drier spots too.

I think that would be a very fun thread topic, @TheSeedObsesser , and one I don't think we've done yet. I've got some cool pics, some older, from hiking and all.