[Leica] Wednesday weeds

[Sonny Carter]

There are lots of flowers called spiderwort.  The ones that grow here are a
bit different.  I like their nickname, “cow slobber.” It comes from the
gelatinous sap that flows when you cut the stems.



On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:00 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Spiderwort is one of its names; it is known as Indain Plant in Central
> Texas.   These are slightly different as ours prefer an alkaline soil and
> most prefer acidic.   Just well adapted to the caliche soils here.
>
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 8:17 PM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> wrote:
>
> > Are those spiderwort?
> >
> > On 2020-04-22 5:09 am, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> > > Greetings to all.  Most of these three were taken in my front yard.
> > > The
> > > first one is a perennial that absolutely takes over any space that it
> > > is
> > > not actively removed.  Heavily cropped from a 14mm field of view:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/heres+looking+at+you.jpg.html
> > >
> > > A better view of the takeover of any space not actively defended:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/fronting+rose+bush.jpg.html
> > >
> > > This is back at St Edwards meadow.  Taken with a telephoto to provide a
> > > different view of a prairie:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Wednesday+Weeds/yellow+in+a+filed+of+bluebonnets.jpg.html
> > >
> > > All the best.
> > >
> >
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