buckwheat vine

This is Brunnichia ovata in the family of polygonaceae:

I found this flowering vine on the second gate going into Mule Jail.  This picture was taken on July 18, 2009.  B. ovata is native to the US and can be found throughout the Southeast.  It is an unremarkable plant.

Oldfield toadflax

This is Nuttallanthus canadensis in the family scrophulariaceae:

 
This specimen was found on the Brandon property April 4, 2009.  A native plant found here in the U.S. and Canada and is an example of the raceme flower arrangement.

groundnut

Here is the Apios americana of the family fabaceae:

I found this plant on the side of Mule Jail road by South Lake.  This vine has a raceme flowering arrangement and is found throughout the Midwest and Eastern seaboard.  A. americana blooms between June and August; this specimen was taken the 7th of September.

orange day lily

This is a delta flower, Hemerocallis fulva in the liliaceae family:

This is not a native plant, it invades, but it is quite beautiful.  I spied this on the side of the road between Indianola and Shaw, Mississippi on a very pleasant afternoon in June of 2008.  As an invasive plant, H. fulva falls under the category of weed.  Given the number of native flowering plants that are callously dismissed as weeds, I feel a certain satisfaction in labeling what many would insist is a flower what it truly is: a weed.  Next time you feel the urge to complain about common flowering plants remember that they may be native, thus unworthy of the term weed.  Instead, say, "the flowers I don't like" unless you are certain they're alien.

And the next time you see a day lily in someones garden, be sure to compliment them on their selection of weeds.

slender lespedeza

An example of Lespedeza virginica in the pea family, fabaceae:

Found on the back road to my parents house in Brandon Mississippi, this plant was host to a spider who was tending an egg sack and had turned the plant into a honeybee death trap as illustrated here.  In the photo above you can see the fibers laid by the nefarious arachnid.  As for L. virginica, it is a native of the United States and found as far north as Canadia.  Classified as a herb with the raceme flower arrangement, the plant shown here was about 4 and a half feet tall (~ 1.4 metres for thems what cares) and somewhat past is flowering prime.

grape hyacinth

Here is the flower Muscari botryoides in the family liliaceae:

The flowers are in a raceme arrangement.  This plant was introduced from yonder and is classified as a weed, though it is a rather attractive.  I have seen examples of M. botryoides throughout Mississippi.  This example was taken in my front yard in Jackson, Mississippi on April 3 of 2010.  As a sample, it is less than prime, though I was unsatisfied with the other examples I have, I may replace this picture.

butterfly pea

here is clitoria mariana of the fabaceae family:

this flower is as most of fabaceae, a raceme arrangement. this photograph was taken at Chapel Hill in south Hinds county here in Mississippi on September 15, 2007. a very pretty flower to come across in the wild.

bulb bittercress

here is cardamine bulbosa of the family brassicaceae:

this is an example of a raceme flower arrangement. this was taken near the Jackson International Airport, in Pearl, in February of '07. c. bulbosa is a common roadside flower here in Mississippi in the spring time. i have seen it throughout the state, in the woods and along the road. it hasn't any smell to speak of, but is quite pretty, especially if you find it in large numbers.

spotted burclover

ere is medicago arabica another from the family of fabaceae:

again, the flower arrangement is that of raceme. this is a small flower, roughly half the size of a dime. the plant that grows this particular organ is a clover that has 3 leaves, typically, each with a crimson spot in the middle. it forms a pretty clump of color on the ground.

bigpod sesbania

here is sesbania herbacea of the family fabaceae:

s. herbacea's flower arrangement is that of raceme, which is proving a popular choice among the flowers i photograph. this example was found on the banks of the Pearl River here in Jackson, MS and yes, that is a sandy beach it is growing in. this was taken in September of '06 on a cloudy day.

pyrenees star of bethlehem

here is ornithogalum umbellatum of the family liliaceae:

this flower was found on the side of the road in Jackson. the picture was taken in March of '07. this flower looks a lot like false garlic, though only from a distance. this is another flower which presents as a raceme arrangement.