The delicate spring ephemerals like trillium and bloodroot might get more attention, but late summer wildflowers put on quite a show and often provide multiple rewards. Joe-Pye weeds (Eupatorium), goldenrods (Solidago) and asters (Aster) are dominant late summer bloomers that attract a multitude of insect life, to the point that a summer meadow hums like distant traffic. Of these three groups, Joe-Pye Weed is the first to reach full bloom and is a butterfly magnet!
Sulphur on Joe-Pye Weed
Fritillary on Joe-Pye Weed
Monarch on Joe-Pye Weed
Tiger Swallowtail on Joe-Pye Weed
Fritillary on Joe-Pye Weed
Painted Lady on Joe-Pye Weed
Photos by NB Hunter. © All Rights Reserved.
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Pretty captures. I really like the Painted Lady. Don’t see them here oddly since I have seen them in Maine.
I don’t think I’ve seen half the flutter-bys you have here. What wonderous and beautiful creatures they are.