Fall Roadside Wildflowers

                                                          Goldenrod and Ageratum

                                                      Goldenrod, Eupatorium, and Gerardia

The roadsides have been glorious these last few weeks. They still look good, even though some of the flowers are fading. None of these flowers would I ever plant, especially in a flower bed, as they are all thugs, but on the roadsides and waste places, they are  just perfect. Golden and blue flowers accented with white and pink.

Golden Rod??

 

This looks suspiciously like golden rod to me but it was blooming in the Ding Darling Preserve. It looked so fresh and springy I had to snap a shot of it. In the process of the photography I got beggar lice all over my pants. But I guess it was worth it to me to remember just how pretty this common old weed is.
The second picture is a wild poinsettia growing in the same area.