Friday Flowers

        I went on my usual Friday wild flower walk yesterday at RBG's Hendrie Valley and the Hamilton Waterfront Trail next to the Hamilton Harbour. Today, while out on my 10 k training run, I noticed more flowers and Fleur-Ange added even more on her walk so the list for the last two days is 72 species long. Here is what we found:

Hoary Alyssum Calico Aster Frost Aster (Pilosus) Heath Aster (Ericoides) New England Aster Panicled Aster Smooth Aster Wood Avens Begger Tick Hairy Bittercress Black-Eyed Susan Bouncing Bet Rough Bugleweed Great Burdock Butter-And-Eggs White Campion Catnip Common Chickweed Mouse Ear Chickweed Chicory Dwarf Cinquefoil Red Clover White Clover White Sweet Clover Common Comfrey Tall Coneflower Thin-leaved Coneflower Tall Coreopsis Crown Vetch Common Dandelion Red-Seeded Dandelion Spotted Dead-Nettle Red Osier Dogwood Daisy Fleabane Galinsoga Small-flowered Galinsoga Tall Goldenrod Common Groundsel Sticky Groundsel Henbit Horseweed Spotted Knapweed Common Knotgrass Japanese Knotweed Mayweed Motherwort Black Mustard Wormseed Mustard Eastern Black Nightshade Periwinkle Pigweed Pokeweed Queen Anne's Lace Rugosa Rose Common St.Johnswort Shepherd's Purse Silverweed Water Smartweed White Snakeroot Dwarf Snapdragon Common Sow-Thistle Field Sow Thistle Spiny-leaved Sow Thistle Tansey Teasel Bull Thistle Spotted Touch-Me-Not Cow Vetch Wallrocket Witch Hazel Creeping Wood Sorrel Yellow Wood Sorrel

        The photo is a close up of a Witch Hazel flower and two seed pods from last year's blooms. The seed pods should POP open any day now and throw out the seeds across the forest floor.