WILD FLOWERS OF EAST TEXAS

Links with are links to other sites and will generate a new browser window. When finished visiting that site, just delete the window.

Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 16:03:29 -0400
From: "Torsello, Donald"
To: "'lee@gower.net'"

Thank you for the e-mail. Please feel free to use the pictures on your web site. Getting the word out about ragweed is important for those that suffer with allergies. If you still wanted to link to the DEP web site, that would be great.
Good luck.

Donald Torsello
Bureau of Air Quality
Pennsylvania DEP

Here is one of the pics but you need to go to the site for more info.

Since there are more than one specie, (this is "Common" Ragweed) you should be able to see others. Here are some links to other photos of other specie.

Giant Ragweed
AboutBurr Ragwood and if you failed to see their photo of it click Burr Ragweed
and PLEASE check this link out about GOLDENROD and learn that Goldenrod is not the culprit... it's the Ragweed!

There is also Western Ragweed.
The Giant Ragwood photos load a bit slow but you may need to see the difference. The Giant is a large plant and instead of the finer leaves of Common Ragwood, the leaves are larger and have like three fingers on one hand.

Another group of Giant Ragweed specie Because of this pic of the baby plant, I have found some in my garden!

Annual Ragweed

I just happened to have my fairly new camera with me so took some pics and then went in and looked in my books to see what it is. Book says Hedge Parsley. The little seed pods turn brown and are like velcro! They will stick to anything!

This plant can become a neusance, but it's was a refreshing sight to me at the time and I'm sure it is of some good to the various pollinators and birds so I didn't pull it up. Live and let live! Here is a pic of the seed:

The first picture is of a cultivar taken from my North East garden Sept of 2000.The sprigs of the plant were scanned directly on my flat-bed scanner and doesn't do the blossoms justice as they are very bright and beautiful. The cultivars come in many colors from all shades of pink to red and all shades of yellow through orange.

The second picture was taken the same way. The blossoms are very small and insignificant. It, too, was taken from my garden but from another area. Purselane, both wild and cultivars, can be used sparingly in greens salads. I have put a few leaves in on occasion, just to add a bit of novelty to the dish.