some blooms from our summer pasture

[Ranch Mom]

Took a little walk Sunday where our cattle summer... Thought I would share the pics.

wind was blowing so much the camera wouldn't focus, but this was cool

Been there a few years.

These just showed up on an old dirt mound in my cow camp yard.

Should be really pretty soon...

Sweet pea?

Tinspila

notice the little butterfly?

Grass is coming.

 

[Faster horses]

Wow, wonderful pictures. I love grassy hills and beautiful wild
flowers.

Thanks for sharing!!

We have those purple flowers and I never knew what they were.
Now, thanks to you, I know.

 

[Ranchy]

These just showed up on an old dirt mound in my cow camp yard.

I'd pull them right now, if I were you. They are called Spanish Needles, and the seeds on them are downright vicious......they cling to everything, and are terrible to get rid of, once they latch on to a place. We've been fighting them here for ever since I can remember, and they still show up every spring. Other than being such a pest, they are pretty, ferny little plants, with cute flowers (white and pink seem to be the most common colors).

They are some relation to cosmos, the seeds look just almost identical, except these will hang on to you if you get close to them, and are a real pain in the tookus!

The rest of the pics are awesome, I love the boot on the post, and the little butterfly.......those little blue ones are so dainty!

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

I've seen boots stuck on fence posts too, somewhere way back in my box of pictures I have a few pictures that I took of them. That boot looks like it still has a lotta miles left in it tho LOL. Don't think any I've ever seen have the staple drove over the barbedwire, and thru the boot tho.

Great pictures!!!!

 

[nr]

There's some special simplicity about wild flowers, even if there aren't masses of them. We were given a packet of wild flower seeds at a funeral last year (is that a new idea? I'd never heard of it before). Anyway, they've sprouted and we're looking forward to guessing what we've got and hope there aren't any prickly surprises. I tried planting
soapweed seeds from BobM but they haven't emerged- maybe don't like Eastern dirt!

 

[Hanta Yo]

YUP, and sometimes you need to read what is in those packets as "wildflowers" - Larkspur is normally included in those packets - NOT A GOOD THING - they are lethal to cattle when enough of them are eaten. A lot of problems ranchers have with these "flowers", is that a gardener will grow noxious weeds (cuz they're pretty and don't know they're noxious) and will let them go to seed, so the wind blows the seed everywhere and eventually end up in a place where they aren't welcome... baby's breath has become the same thing...Dalmation Toadflax is a pretty flower and nasty to get rid of once it sets roots in our soil. Some greenhouses will put spurge in the middle of a basket, looks cool, but we're fighting leafy spurge like you couldn't believe. We've been spraying all week, we had some good rain earlier, guess it brings out the worst, we have some spurge, dalmation toadflax, whitetop, Canadian Thistles, and spotted knapweed.

Just thought you would like to know....

 

[Faster horses]

Very good point, Hanta Yo.

Leafy Spurge was brought here as an ornamental flower or bush.
That's what it is used as in France.

Babys Breath grew all over the place in the Deer Lodge Valley.
Some folks always came and harvested it right after the fair.
They would fill the grandstand with the stuff and talk about STINk!
WOOOOEEEE! You can't stand to have one plant in the car with
you...it will run you out!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Should hang the Frenchman that brought spurge over :wink:

We had an old attorney here that had a fit and was going to sue the state when he was told he had to get rid of his saltcedar bushes because the state had designated them a noxious weed....They are quite pretty... A lot of people did not want to destroy their growths.....

Luckily after he did a little studying, he admitted they probably deserved the designation and let the weed control guys remove them.....

 

[nr]

Guess we can blame BMR for the Canadian Thistle :wink:

 

[Clarence]

Is that a bumble Bee on the first picture? I believe that plant is Lamberts Crazyweed. Just a few comments for what they are worth. I don't think the small white flowers ar what Ranchy thinks, they look to me like Hood Phlox. It grows on caly soil on on rocky hilltops. Tinspila or tinsipla was taken from the Indian names the Lakota called that plant tipsin. Other common names ar Indian Breadroot, prairia turnip, or Indian turnip. Indians still dig them today, sometimes for food but they braid a number of the bulbs together and sometimes sell a strig of them. I don't think the yellow flower is a sweet pea, maybe Golden pea, I don't have them here. The other small yellow flower is narrow leaf gromwell, We called it honey suckle as you could get a bit of necter from the tubuler blossom. there is another gromwell that grow on sandy soil, it has a more orange blossom. These are also called puccoon (an Indian name) supposedly dye could be obtained from the roots. I would like to know what the one with the large white blossoms is.