Flower Power

Generally-speaking, people appreciate a flower for the beauty of its color, the pleasantness of its fragrance or the efficacy of its ability to get one out of the trouble that one has gotten into.

Insects (to be so bold as to speak for the critters who will be around to occupy our collective wreckage), meanwhile, may well appreciate a flower for its intricate architecture (that nicely foils the competitors' search for pollen) or its preferred place in the landscape or its season of pollen production.

Ponder these or your own musings as you appreciate the following summer of 2008 blooms from some of Indiana's protected natural areas. We greatly enjoyed bumbling across these many wonders while working for their continued protection amongst their woodland, swamp and prairie homes.


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Wild Senna

Rose Pogonia (an orchid)

Small-Flowered Foxglove

Solitary-Flowered Rockrose

Sundew

Swamp Saxifrage

Marsh Pea

Michigan Lily

Unknown

Pickerelweed

Pitcher Plant

Red Clover

Fire Pink

Grass Pink (an orchid)

Hepatica

Marsh Marigold

Spotted Touch-Me-Not

Boneset

White Vervain

Blue Vervain

Ladies' Tresses Orchid

Jerusalem Artichoke

Grass-of-Parnassus

Brook Lobelia

Water Hemlock

Bugleweed

Monkeyflower

Joe-Pye-Weed

Unknown

Common Milkweed

Ironweed

Swamp Milkweed

Swamp Thistle

Some Sort of Vine-ing Legume

Harebell

Brown-eyed Susan

Some sort of Tick-Trefoil

Common St. Johnswort

Heal-All

Birds-Foot Violet

Blue Flag

Arrowhead

Just a few reasons why we care.