Fall Flowers

Fall flowers mark the end of the summer heat.  There are quite impressive displays in many of the fields.  Joy needs to help identify some of these.

Narrowleaf sunflowers around a young longleaf pine.

Narrowleaf sunflowers grow tall and surround a beauty berry bush.  I don't know the white flowers.

The fields are ablaze with yellow narrowleaf sunflowers.

I don't know this next one.  It provides some rare pink, non-yellow color.

A "foundation planting" of blue mist flowers came all on its own.  All I did was not mow it.

Its not a flower, but I thought the sun behind this cloud was a quite stunning effect.

Cardinal vine grows rapantly, I would almost believe feet per day.  It has a bright red flower that attracts hummingbirds.

Where it gets started, cardinal vine rapidly covers any tellis type of structure.  Here on the east side of the chick barn it is growing over a chain link fence gate.

Cardinal flowers have deep nectaries that the hummingbirds like.

The gulf coast fritillary butterfly is attracted to this frilly purplish flower.  I don't know its name.

Here there is a type of yellow goldenrod in the background.  Seeing this, I am reminded that I did not get a picture of the masses of yellow goldenrod blooming this time of year.

This butterfly posed for me.