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Tansy Tanacetum vulgare. (aka buttons, golden buttons, hierba lombriguera) • Family:  Asteraceae  • Height: 2-5 feet • Flower size: 1/4-1/2 inch • Flower color: yellow • Origin:  Eurasia - considered invasive

 

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2000 - Report by Lorraine Anderson

Roads traveled:
Hwy #61, Gunflint Trail, Greenwood Road, Shoe Lake Road, Trout Lake Road

Flowers seen:

butter & eggs (Linaria vulgaris)*
yarrow
sand spurrey (Spergularia rubra)
pearly everlasting
birdsfoot trefoil
tansy (Tanacetum vulgare)*
goldenrod (Solidago)
Aster, purple stemmed (Aster punicceus)
aster, large leafed
mayweed
ox-eye daisy
black-eyed-susan
pineapple weed
rabbits-foot clover
orange & yellow hawkweed
red clover
Evening Primrose
eyebright (Euphrasia americana) *
buttercup
fireweed
dock
Canada thistle
joe-pye
cow wheat
water hemlock
jewelweed
Indian pipes (Monotropa uniflora) 
slender bush clover
climbing false buckwheat (Polygonum scandens)
beach pea (Lathyrus japonicus)

Berries in a bog:
snowberry
small cranberry
northern commandra

There  are getting less flowers as fall approaches and a few red-orange leaves here and there.  A smell of fall in in the air at times.  If any of you are planning to come up here and enjoy the
beautiful fall colors, the peak time for the maples (which are inland) is the last week in September.  The leaves along the shore come a bit later, that would be red underbrush and the yellow from
the birch and aspen.  Happy Hunting!

( * my favorites of the day)

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