Common (Tall) Buttercup
(Ranunculus acris)

Description: The lustre on the flower petals is due to a waxy coating. Leaves and stems have a bitter juice. Introduced from Europe. Bright, shiny yellow flowers on long stems with deeply serrated leaves. Quite different from the compact Marsh Marigold which flowers earlier in similar habitat. and has become naturalized here, preferring open meadows and disturbed areas.

Habitat: Prefers wet or damp situations, such as edges of marsh, stream.

Height: 60 cm

Flowering: June - September

Black-eyed Susan
(Rudbeckia hirta)

Description: Robust plant with large, deep green leaves and tall flower. Leaves and stem hairy. Typical of the Daisy family to which it belongs, the flower is actually composed of yellow "petals" which are ray flowers and the dark brown centre (the "eye") is packed with disk flowers. The disk flowers yield the seeds beloved of goldfinches. A biennial or short-lived perennial, it flowers in second season, after a first season as a basal rosette.

Habitat: Open, sunny habitats, especially dry meadows.

Height: 1 m

Flowering: July - August

Butter-and-eggs
(Linaria vulgaris)

Description: The Yellow Toadflax, also known as "butter-and-eggs", was introduced into North America from Europe as an ornamental plant in the 1800s. It is now a widespread weed throughout the US and Canada, occurring along highways and railroads, in cultivated fields, and in disturbed pastures. Tall, erect plant. Lemony-yellow flowers in clusters have the elaborate lobes. Leaves grass-like. Native to Europe. Weedy.

Habitat: Open, sunny areas such as roadsides, waste land.

Height: 50 cm

Flowering: July

Bush Honeysuckle
(Diervilla lonicera)

Description: Normally a low-growing forest floor plant that can become shrubby. Leaf margins are toothed. Flowers are pale-yellow, sometimes tinged orange.

Habitat: Woodland. Dry soils.

Height: 1 m

Flowering: June

Black Mustard
(Brassica nigra)

Description: Flowers have four petals arranged in a cross-shape. Tolerates poor soils, and colonizes fields and disturbed sites. Introduced from Europe. This genus has been subject to artificial selection to produce wide variety of greens, inclsuing broccolli, mustard greens.

Habitat: Widespread, especially open areas.

Height: 1 m

Flowering: June

Cup Plant
(Silphium perfoliatum)

Description: Distinctive square-stemmed, tall plant with leaves which are like sandpaper. The leaves clasp the stem and allow water to collect in the axils.

Habitat:

Height: 2.5 m.

Flowering: July - September

Evening Primrose
(Oenothera biennis)

Description:

Habitat:

Height: 50 cm

Flowering: June - September