This blog will be used to communicate items of interest for the Joyce Road neighborhood. (Click on blog images for larger view)
06 October 2015
Wildflower - Blue Wood Aster
The cooler temperatures of fall are here and a few of the wildflowers are still in bloom, such as the Blue Wood Aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium). Some of our fields are covered with a blue carpet of these wildflowers.
The flowers bloom with a yellow center that turns reddish as the flower matures.
Insects, like this Virginia Ctenucha (Ctenucha virginica) moth, are attracted to the small flowers as a source of food since many of the summer wildflower are now gone.
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