6-19 Heal-all, Day Lily, Monkey Flower, Bean Leaf Beetle

6-19 Heal-all, a very common weed of lawns, fields and roadsides, has dense heads of purplish or sometimes almost white flowers.

Day Lilies - escapes from cultivation - decorate roadsides and old house sites.

Wet places are home to Monkey Flower, so called because its flowers are thought by some to resemble simian faces.

A Bean Leaf Beetle (Certoma trifurcata) fed happily on Showy Tick Trefoil, a member of the pea family. John