Brown season
A few images from a meadow in early winter :
The first image is aster in a grassy area (in black and white); the second is willowherb, the last is a plant I haven’t identified.
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Your third plant appears to be in Apiaceae, the family that includes dill, celery, parsley, and carrots. You caught nice curvy elements in the second photo.
It does look like Daucus carota (Queen Anne’s Lace) but it’s something else. And the field is full of it. Thanks!
There are 40 plus genera in the carrot family listed for Massachusetts. This is going to take a while!
Could be water hemlock, poison hemlock, or wild carrot, but you would probably have to look at the roots to tell.
It’s not wild carrot (D. carota) but it could very well be a hemlock.
The carrot family’s easy to spot; genus and species identification can be harder. Of course, I don’t need to tell you that! The middle image reminds me of sea anemones opening and closing: especially the less focused bit in the background. If you wanted a bit of alliteration, you could call these examples of the sepia season.
The middle image reminded me of hydra, anemone have a similar look. My unidentified plant is still unidentified, alas.
Brings back memories of when my family moved to Arizona where every season was brown season. 🙂 I like that unidentified plant. It has the look of some plants I sometimes see, though I don’t know their identity either.
Thanks, Todd. I started slogging through the carrot family, but stopped after the first 12 or so genera.
Absolutely love these
Thanks!
Looks very much like what we have in Indiana right now. 😊