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I have decided to keep a separate gallery of wildflowers for each current year. During that year the gallery will be sorted in reverse order of date taken so that the most recent pictures appear at the beginning of this gallery. At the end of each year I'll collect the pictures into the main wildflower gallery, which is sorted in ascending order of date taken. See that gallery here: http://arctangent.smugmug.com/Nature/Vegetation/Wildflowers-Past-Years/5424475_QmrpZJ. I'll also re-sort the year's gallery in ascending order.

Included here are any flowers seen growing in wild or natural environments, as well as species known to occur in the wild but seen planted in various garden settings. Flowers might be native to North America, or alien imports, mainly from Europe.
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D201-2012 False Dragonhead, Physostegia virginiana.
Family Lamiaceae (mint family) . . . Native to North America.
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
July 20, 2012.
(nex5n)
D201-2012 Teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris.
Look closely and you'll see the tips of the deeper purple spikes that will remain after the pale violet blossoms have dried and blown away.
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
July 20, 2012.
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D201-2012 Blue Vervain, Verbena hastata.
Family Verbenaceae . . . Native to North America.
Critter watch:  Can you see the lurking beetle in the cluster of flower spikes?  I think it's a Japanese beetle.  If so, bad news!  Farther to the left, head down, there is some kind of mayfly-shaped flying insect.   Can anyone help identify it?
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
July 20, 2012.
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D201-2012 Common Sow-thistle, Sonchus oleraceus (Tentative ID).
Family Asteraceae . . . Alien to North America, but widespread and invasive.
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
July 20, 2012.
(nex5n)
D219-2012 Great Ragweed, Ambrosia trifida.
Family Asteraceae . . . Native to North America.  An invasive, hard to control pest that is damaging to crops.
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
August 7, 2012.
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D219-2012 Great Ragweed, Ambrosia trifida.
Family Asteraceae . . . Native to North America.  An invasive, hard to control pest that is damaging to crops.
This specimen was ~10 feet tall, at a guess, which is well short of the record 21 feet tall recorded for a plant in Texas (of course).
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
August 7, 2012.
(nex5n)
D242-2012 Flowering Spurge, Euphorbia corollata
Family Euphorbiaceae . . . Native to North America
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Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
D242-2012 Ripening seedpods of butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).  They remind me of candle flames.
Surrounding them are dried brown seed heads of black-eyed susans and dainty white blossoms of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)

A BW version that give greater tonal separation between the seed pods and the foliage is available here:  http://smu.gs/OwDA6J
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Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
D242-2012 Goldenrod (genus Solidago, species unknown), one of either the so-called flat-top or clubby types I think.
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Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
D242-2012 Flowering Spurge, Euphorbia corollata
Family Euphorbiaceae . . . Native to North America
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Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
D242-2012 Flowering Spurge, Euphorbia corollata
Family Euphorbiaceae . . . Native to North America
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Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
D242-2012 Flowering Spurge, Euphorbia corollata
Family Euphorbiaceae . . . Native to North America
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Tall Grass Prairie at Secor Park, Toledo, Ohio.
August 30, 2012
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