Kudzu The kudzu invasion is a serious one in the Southeast, it can grow 100' a year or more. It was inported from Japan in 1911 to control erosion and restore nitrogendepleted soil. Did you know kudzu has this beautiful,sweet smelling flower that blooms from August to September.
Common Milkweed This wild flower is the only plant the Monarch butterfly caterpiller will eat. The leaves are poisonous, making the caterpiller and the butterfly poisonous to preditors. Blooms June-August. The seedpod is to the side.
Common Mullein > Also known as Velvet Plant and Flannel Leaf because of the texture of its leaves. They have a 2year life cycle, forming a ground-hugging rosette of leaves that last through winter and then in early spring the upright flowering stem rises and blooms all summer long from June to September.
Joe-Pye-Weed Named after an Indian healer who used these plants to treat several ailments, this tall roadside flower blooms from July to September.
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