A walk in the backyard:
Queen Anne’s lace
Closeup of Queen Anne’s lace shows five-petaled flowers
Potato flowers with anthers nestled along the pistils
Chickory, a member of the Aster Family
Malva, showing the Mallow Family’s distinctive arrangement of sexual parts fused to the pistil
Red clover, if you look closely at the lower flowers, you’ll see the characteristic shape of the Pea Family
Meadow goat’s beard
Hostas
Scientific names and families:
Queen Anne’s lace/Daucus carota – Parsley Family: Apiacea
Potato/Solanum tuberosum – Nightshade Family: Solanaceae
Chickory/Cichorium intybus – Aster Family: Asteraceae
Malva/Malva sylvestris – Malva Family: Malvaceae
Meadow goat’s beard/Tragopogon pretensis L. – Aster Family: Asteraceae
Hostas/Hosta sp. – Aspargus Family: Asparagaceae
