Wildflower Spotting II
The Changling posted the second wildflower spotting entry last week. I’m going to follow up with a third one. I walked past a weed filled lot on the corner of Lafayette Ave. and Marcus Garvey Blvd.  What I thought were candy wrappers were actually wildflowers!  After a closer look, I spotted at least SIX different kinds! Their colors are so vibrant.  Come to think of it, I’ve been seeing wildflowers all over Bed-Stuy.  I had no idea that there was a seed-bombing team!  Count me in next year.  Now, was this lot seed-bombed?  Or were these flowers “volunteers,” as my grandmother would call them!  Can anyone help identify these?
05 August 2009, 10:17 am
It was seedbombed. A lot of lots have been mowed (that one is pretty well maintained) but the flowers are coming back!
06 August 2009, 12:26 pm
Hey, here’s a link to the identification guide:
http://www.21stcenturyplowshare.com/2009/08/meadow-identification-guide.html
06 August 2009, 12:36 pm
Those flowers look like lanceleaf coreopsis, none-so-prettys, and field coreopsis, with maybe some poppies! Lafayette between Stuyvesant and Lewis, just up the street, has lots of black-eyed susans and rose mallow and such.