Purpletop #Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) shot yesterday in East Passyunk Crossing. #Bloomscrolling #GardenPlantsGoneWild #FlowerPower
Concrete Botany
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Urban and Disadvantaged Botany. All photos by myself unless otherwise noted. All pavementplants unless otherwise noted. Based in the concrete swampland called South Philadelphia. Tell me how to post = block. No politics. Bloomscrolling > Doomscrolling
Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum-foreground) and Perilla (P. frutescens-background) both growing out of a sidewalk in Grays Ferry. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #GarlicChives
Eastern Baccharis (Baccharis halimifolia) growing out of a stoop, shot yesterday in Grays Ferry.
Some of the Petunia spillover from his deck, shot yesterday. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #RebelPlants #Petunias
Concrete Botany@concretebotany.bsky.social · yesterdayI also met the guy whose deck scattered the Petunias of the second Grays Ferry outbreak I've found. He confirmed that this is a Cockscomb (Celosia) & not some fancy Pigweed (Amaranth). It also resulted from his deck's seed spillage. bsky.app/profile/conc...
These #Pansies (Viola x wittrockiana) in East Passyunk Crossing are essentially on the way to Grays Ferry, elsewhere in EPC or anywhere else in that direction, so I end up shooting them often. I got some good shots yesterday. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #GardenPlantsGoneWild
Silver Cockscomb (Celosia argentea) shot this morning in East Passyunk Crossing. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Celosia #Cockscomb
I'd be happy to have a Common #Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) this healthy pop up in one of my containers. They are a long-established exotic invasive, no doubt carried here as a food source. I shot this one in East Passyunk Crossing this morning. #Succulents #EdiblePlants #Weeds #UrbanWeeds
Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans) as a sidewalk crackweed in the Newbold/Point Breeze area.
I stumbled upon this Marigold (Tagetes patula) spot in East Passyunk again. I assume this was seeded from the one there last year, since I believe Marigolds are true annuals.
Concrete Botany@concretebotany.bsky.social · 2mo agoMarigold (Tagetes patula) shot last September. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #GardenPlantsGoneWild
Clematis (prob. C. terniflora) shot this morning in Grays Ferry.
#Basil (Ocimum basilicum) shot this morning in Grays Ferry. #Pavementplants #GardenPlantsGoneWild #Gardening
Purpletop #Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) shot this morning in East Passyunk Crossing. #Bloomscrolling #GardenPlantsGoneWild #FlowerPower
It was a good morning for meeting the residents of homes I'd been photographing in front or back of. I met the nice lady who lives behind this flower bed overflow. She told me that this was Snow-in-Summer, which was my primary guess, Cerastium tomentosum.
Concrete Botany@concretebotany.bsky.social · 2w agoSome fancy Blackeyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta), Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia maritima) & what I think is an ornamental Cerastium, shot yesterday in Grays Ferry. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #GardenPlantsGoneWild
Field #Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) shot this morning north of Gray's Ferry Avenue, in the area between Forgotten Bottom & Devil's Pocket. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Wildflowers #FieldBindweed
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) as a street weed, shot in Gray's Ferry on June 16th. The plant was smushed by a parking car early last month. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Cornflower #BachelorsButtons
People get all riled up & offended when you call their favorite wildflowers weeds, but there are many definitions of the word weed. People will ask "Is it a weed or a wildflower" but those aren't mutually exclusive terms by any standards. Asiatic dayflower is a weed by many standards, however.
Alison Cook@alisoncook.bsky.social · 2d agoI love these so much and get riled when people call them weeds. I give them a whole pot to themselves and let them volunteer in various beds and potted plants.
Purpletop Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) shot Thursday in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. #Bloomscrolling #PurpletopVervain #PurpletopVerbena
Purpletop Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) shot Thursday in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. #Bloomscrolling #PurpletopVervain #PurpletopVerbena
Purpletop Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) shot Thursday in the Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. #Bloomscrolling #PurpletopVervain #PurpletopVerbena
Horsenettle (Solanum carolinense) on a Grays Ferry sidewalk, shot last Thursday. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #Flowers #Horsenettle
Asiatic Dayflower (Commelina communis) shot Tuesday in the East Oregon neighborhood. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #Flowers #AsiaticDayflower
Nooit geweten, maar de officiële Nederlandse naam van Pluimhortensia (Hortensia paniculata) is Waterstruik. En laat ik die nou voor het eerst verwilderd tegenkomen in een kademuur, dichtbij het water. Op @waarneming.nl zag ik een eerdere waarneming ook al op kademuur. Waterstruik dus!
I spotted this on a pavement near my house and initially thought it was Spotted Spurge, Euphorbia maculata, a plant which I have been keeping my eye out for. However, I now think it might be E. serpens. If so, that's interesting, as there are only a handful of UK records. bsbi.org/maps/?taxoni...
#Chicory (Chicorium intybus) shot Thursday on a median in the middle of Grays Ferry Avenue. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #Flowers #UrbanFlora
Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) shot last Thursday north of Gray's Ferry Avenue, in the area between Forgotten Bottom & Devil's Pocket. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Wildflowers #WildCarrot
