5-24 Birdsfoot Trefoil, Silvery Cinquefoil, Pineapple Weed, virginia Waterleaf, flower fly

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Birdsfoot Trefoil favors fields and roadsides. 

Dry, sandy verges and gravel parking lots are home to Silvery Cinquefoil and Pineapple Weed. All three are introduced species.

Pineapple Weed

Silvery Cinquefoil

Virginia Waterleaf, a native, favors rich woods and can tolerate some shade.

And a flower fly, genus Sericomyia, although harmless, gains advantage by mimicking a bee.

John