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Hop Trefoil Clover
Trifolium campestre
This species of trifolium is not native to the United States, its native range is in Europe and Western Asia, but it has now been introduced in some areas of the US due to being grown for fodder and escaping. However, it's not yet listed as an invasive species here.
June 17th, 2023
Weldon Spring, St. Charles County, Missouri, USA
Olivia R. Myers
@oliviarosaline
Violet Wood Sorrel
Oxalis violacea
This beautiful oxalis violacea with showy, soft violet blooms is a perennial species native to the eastern and central United States.
May 12th, 2023
Jefferson County, Missouri, USA
Olivia R. Myers
@oliviarosaline
Wildflowers flourishing along a tranquil Ozarkian trail. It was a blessing to enjoy this beautiful place where the sun kissed spots of the blue forest floor and only the sound of bird songs and soft wind whispered through the trees. The blue-eyed mary (Collinsia verna) and virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) thriving on the forest floor are both native spring ephemerals found throughout the central and eastern parts of North America.
April 17th, 2023
Washington County, Missouri, USA
Olivia R. Myers
@oliviarosaline
Eastern Shooting Star
Primula meadia syn. Dodecatheon meadia
This native perennial has a range that spans throughout the central and eastern United States, where it can be found growing in a variety of habitats with acidic to neutral soils. Its nodding flowers resemble a shooting star and are usually white or lilac in color.
This particular plant was growing in a dolomite glade, but I've also found this species growing in moist, open forests over sandstone before.
April 18th, 2024
Jefferson County, Missouri, USA
Olivia R. Myers
@oliviarosaline
American Water Willow
Justicia americana
This native perennial loves water and can be found in very moist habitats. Its native range spans from Texas, throughout much of the eastern United States, to southeastern Canada. I found this blooming plant with purple and white bicolored flowers among a small colony growing in the middle of a shallow creek.
June 6, 2023
Shannon County, Missouri, USA
Olivia R. Myers
@oliviarosaline
These are from a hike on Sept 4th 2016 at Maiden’s Cliff and the associated mountain I did with my boyfriend, his sister and her five year old daughter. The cross is the spot where a young woman accidentally fell to her death chasing her hat and possibly her gloves as well. As you can see it would be easyish to fall off the edge in places because of how steep it can get and we watched the little one like a hwak. The cliff is reportedly haunted.
Edit I have done some research and according to sources the girl's name was Elenora French and she fell off the cliff in 1860s at the age of eleven years old. She survived the fall with no broken bones but died the next day from internal bleeding. Accounts differ on how she fell and the circumstances. One story, supposedly told by a sister years later, claimed that Elenora climbed the mountain with a sister, a schoolteacher and a young man. Elenora apparently sat on the edge of the cliff and fell when a puff of wind blew off her hat and she unthinkingly threw herself after it off the edge. Another one says that it was during a church picnic on the mountain that Elenora chased her bonnet off the edge. And before I forget: we are not sitting on the edge of the cliff. We are sitting on a rocky ledge with solid ground in the immediate vicinity.
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on the hiking trail | lofoten, norway