Fall Garden Photos #1 Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

	Friends of the Wild Flower Garden Seasonal Photos - Autumn #1

In mid September and October as many plants prepare for winter rest, there is still abundant color in the Upland Garden. Asters predominate. The multi-colored fruits of various plants are quite visible. Some of the photos on this page will show a close up upon mouse roll-over. More photos, identification and descriptive information on each plant is found in the site index.

From year to year I become more and more attached to wild asters. They are so varied in color, habit, and form. The one I look at last, I like best of all. Eloise Butler
	Calico Aster(Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (L.) [Aster lateriflorus]). (a.k.a. Side Flowering Aster) Family: Aster. Found in the Upland Garden this aster has very small flower heads with white to slight purple tinged rays, lance shape leaves. Second image under.


An upland view from the far hill in the Upland Garden


Western Silver Aster (Symphyotrichum sericeum (Vent.) G.L. Nesom). a.k.a. Silky Aster. One of the full sun fall asters in the Upland Garden. Short plants with profuse blooms. Second image under.

	Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica L.). Family: Bellflower. Found in both the Upland and Woodland Gardens. Close-up image under

	Many-flowered Aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides L.) [Aster ericoides]). Family: Aster. A medium height aster of the Upland Garden with narrow rough edged leaves and white flowers. Close-up on roll-over

	New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae L.) [Aster novae-angliae]) One of the most prolific of the asters in the Upland Garden. The plants are tall with the leaves distinctively clasping the stem. At the east end of the Upland Garden a large group of these asters are rose colored instead of the more common purple shown here. Second image under.

	Showy Goldenrod (Solidago speciosa Nutt.). Family: Goldenrod. One of the late blooming goldenrods in the Upland Garden, distinctive for the large branching flower clusters.

	Stiff Goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum (L.) Small) [Solidago rigida]). Family: Aster. Upland Garden. Close-up image under.

	Rose hips. Seed of the Wild Rose (Rosa blanda Aiton). Upland Garden.


A red apparition in the Upland Garden

The path in the bog area of the Woodland Garden in mid-October showing the end of the season colors.

The large solitary oak on the central hill in the Upland Garden in mid October. It's companions of years past on this hill now gone. Click the image for a larger photo.

Gray Dogwood (Cornus racemosa Lam.) Family: Dogwood. The white flowers of late spring give way to very white fruit with very conspicuous red stalks. Upland Garden. Close-up image under.


	White Rattlesnake Root (Prenanthes alba L.). Family: Composite. Upland Garden. Flowers can range from white to greenish and yellowish. Native to most of Minnesota except the SW. Close-up image under.


	Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa L.). Family: Milkweed. Upland Garden. A plant of the dry prairie and sunny woods. Native to Minnesota in the south and east. close-up image under.


	Prairie Rosinweed (Prairie Dock) (Silphium terebinthinaceum Jacq.). Family: Composite. Upland Garden. A very tall prairie plant of sunny drier areas. Leaves are basal only. One of the four Silphiums in the Upland Garden. Close-up image under.
Purple-stemmed Aster (aka Red-stemmed Aster) (Symphyotrichum puniceum (L.) A. Löve & D. Löve) [Aster puniceus]) A lighter shade of violet than the New England Aster, the leaves have a clasping base and the stem is, of course, purple-reddish. Flowers can be up to 1 1/2 inches wide. Woodland Garden. Close-up image under.

A robin on the Odell birdbath near the Martha Crone Shelter.

Orangefruit Horse Gentian. (Triosteum aurantiacum E. P. Bicknell). Family: Honeysuckle. Not a true gentian at all and named for the coarseness of the overall plant, it sports these very conspicuous orange fruit in the leaf axils in late September and October. Upland Garden in several places. Second image under.

Sky-blue Aster (Azure Aster).(Symphyotrichum oolentangiense (Riddell) G.L. Nesom) [Aster azureus]). Family: Aster. A sky-blue variety in the Upland Garden. Second image under.

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Seasonal Photos - Autumn #1