Purple-headed Sneezeweed is opening a few flowers. Its flower rays are wedge-shaped and 3 lobed, leaf bases extend down the stem creating 'wings.'
Purple or Field Milkwort is also in season.
The tiny - less than 1/8 inch - flowers of Marsh Pennywort can also be found … if one searches low moist ground. I have to be nearly at eye level with them before I see the flowers.
ANd a moth called Leconte's Haploa is flying. This species can be almost completely white or blotched with black to varying degrees. There are 4 other fairly similar Haploa that can be seen in our area.
John
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| Purple-headed Sneezeweed |
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| Field Milkwort |
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| Marsh Pennywort |
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| Leconte's Haploa moth |
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