Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock Butterfly weed is the orange

Butterfly weed is the orange star of the summer meadow

where the unusual gold flowers and long season earn a place

The plant is also a larval host for several checkerspot and painted lady species

who with her husband Robert founded Woodlanders

This conradina haunts a sandy woodland and cutover near the Styx River

Diospyros virginiana 25/6 Restock Butterfly weed is the orangeThe botanical name reads like a compliment: Diospyros joins the Greek dios, divine, to pyros, grain, so the genus translates roughly as "fruit of the gods," a lofty title for a tree that drops sweet, homely orange fruit onto the forest floor each autumn. The common name travels the other direction, plain and American, from the Powhatan word putchamin for a dried fruit, a reminder that Native peoples were drying persimmons into cakes long before the