Beggar Ticks, AKA Sticktight, is starting to flower. Each flower is surrounded by 5 - 9 leaflike bracts. Later it will form barbed achenes (fruit) that cling to clothing - and dogs.
Sweet Everlasting is showing a bit of color. This is about as showy as the flowers get although they expand when they go to seed.
And Hawthorn fruits … haws? … are ripening. The Flora of Vermont lists 50 species and suggests that amateus defer to experts for identification.
John
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| Beggar Ticks |
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| Sweet Everlasting |
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| Hawthorn fruits |
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