garden pictures, more seed tick misery

8.23.24 ~ North Carolina Botanical Garden
old man’s beard (?)
ironweed
2004 NC Wildflower of the Year
American goldfinch
awned meadow-beauty
rattlesnake master
2016 NC Wildflower of the Year
pink turtlehead
sunset muskmallow
small-headed sunflower
garden phlox
white prairie goldenrod (solidago ptarmicoides) (endangered)
aka prairie aster, sneezewort aster, upland white aster, upland white goldenrod