Storms blew through at the beginning of the week and ushered in a string of absolutely perfect days:  80 degrees, low humidity, no clouds.  

Swamp thistle, spotted joe-pyeweed, white snakeroot.**  
Field thistle, cutleaf coneflower, mullein, Baldwin's ironweed, woodland sunflower.



** [ Also tall boneset, white sanicle, richweed. "Exercise cation. This plant contains a toxin called tremetol which causes a potentially fatal illness. What's more, if animals who are lactating eat white snakeroot the tremetol can be passed on to humans who drink the milk. Many early European settlers are suspected to have died of this so-called'milk-sickness' before they understood ...

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