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🌼 lax hornpod 🌿 Mitreola petiolata middle tn is on the northern edge of this tropical species' range. its closest relative in the state is woodland pinkroot, Spigelia marilandica #nativeplants #ecoregion71

🌻 orange coneflower 🌿 Rudbeckia fulgida i think. maybe var. fulgida. maybe R. tenax, if it exists. love stumbling into a taxonomic minefield. anyways pretty flower #nativeplants #ecoregion71

🌸 bitter-bloom 🌿 Sabatia angularis aka rosepink. i dont know where the common name bitterbloom comes from besides i suppose the attested usage of this gentian-family plant to produce bitter tonic, but its a p neat name. and anyways its neither a rose nor a pink... #nativeplants #ecoregion71

🌼 leafcup 🌿 Polymnia canadensis these are some of the largest rays i've seen on a leafcup. they range from absent, to tiny, to merely small, to, well this i guess #nativeplants #ecoregion71

🌼 eastern agave 🌿 Manfreda virginica #nativeplants #ecoregion71

🌼 wooly croton 🌿 Croton capitatus #nativeplants #ecoregion71