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Friday Fabuous Flower - SYC
This has been a hectic couple of days. The F1 bought a house (pretty exciting), the neighbor girl got married (also pretty exciting), the Phactors attended a memorial service for TPPs graduate mentor (kind of sad, but he lived a good, long life of continual learning), did too much driving in nasty traffic around Indianapolis (the hated loop), popped in to Jungle Jim's for a quick shopping trip (quite an adventure as always). That's rather way too much, oh, and several other invitations for this and that had to be declined for lack of time.
At any rate at this time of year, the pickings get a bit thin, and only SYCs are common (stinking yellow composites). This is a nice species for your wild flower garden, the showing goldenrod, Solidago speciosa. Like all composites (aster/sunflower family) goldenrods have little flowers in heads that include either both, or just disk flowers. The ray flowers are often mistaken for petals when they are arranged around the outside of flat-topped spiral array of disk flowers (think daisy). Most goldenrods have just ray flowers in rather small heads, but a few species have ray flowers too and these often help produce a quite showy display in this case 5 or 6 ray flowers surrounding a few disk flowers. The entire terminal cluster is being visited by a beetle, a bee, and a butterfly.
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Great photo catching the bee, the beetle and the butterfly all enjoying the fall
Solidago speciosa! TY.
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