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oliviarosaline · 1 month

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Lanceleaf Frogfruit

Phyla lanceolata

This perennial species in the verbena family is native to much of the United States and Mexico. It's usually found growing in disturbed wetlands, ditches, or yards and provides nectar for many beneficial insects when it blooms during summer.

The plant pictured was in disturbed bottomland woods near Butler Lake and the Meramec River in southern St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

June 20th, 2023

Olivia R. Myers

@oliviarosaline

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headspace-hotel · 6 months

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what gets me, is a lot of urban and suburban areas could be awesome unique plant habitats, because there are so many ferns and mosses and liverworts and flowers made to grow in very specific conditions that are unusual in the wild but can easily be formed by buildings and other architecture

For example outside of a building on campus there is a pipe that drips water from the side of the building and a small drainage basin full of stones, and near the drip from the pipe there grows a Virginia Dayflower, which likes to grow only in the stony areas of a creekbed that the water rises to cover rarely, or in gullies on a mountain side where rain rushes down sometimes

In many places bricks or stonework accidentally creates the perfect conditions for a type of moss which somehow ends up there, and people are like "Wow, what a lovely moss covered wall..."

I feel that with deeper knowledge of the plants, we could create buildings much greener and lusher and full of life, and even the urban areas would flourish with plants more specifically adapted to a place very similar to the artificially created place

In many cases they aren't already flourishing simply because the seeds have a hard time finding their way from the wild places into the city or town...especially since so many cities are surrounded with the dreaded SUBURB! Which can be worse...

For example drainage ditches in my home could be full of Lanceleaf Frogfruit and Soft Rushes and Woolgrass and Sedges of many kinds

But because no one knows the ways of the plants they are full of a regular lawn grass

#plants

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ifawnleaf · 21 days

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frogfruit and lanceleaf coreopsis 🥰

#frogfruit is on the way to covering the entire bed #and both coreopsis plants became huge without me noticing #only one is flowering tho which is strange since they're right next to each other #my post #native gardening #Phyla nodiflora #Coreopsis lanceolata

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bandnameserver · 5 months

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Lanceleaf Frogfruit

#band names

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