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What's Blooming?

Some obviously blooming plants along roadsides of  Wisconsin in August.
Colors Common Name Scientific Name
White
Boneset
Fleabane
Bouncing Bet
Culver's-root
Whorled Milkweed
Queen Anne's lace
Yarrow
Eupatorium perfoliatum var. perfoliatum
Erigeron spp.
Saponaria officinalis
Veronicastrum virginicum 
Asclepias verticillata
Daucus carota
Achillea millefolium
Yellow
Oxeye sunflower
Showy goldenrod
Canada goldenrod
Beggar-ticks
Butter-and-eggs
Rosinweed
Black-eyed Susan
Sunflower
Tansy
Heliopsis helianthoides
Solidago speciosa 
Solidago canadensis 
Bidens vulgatus 
Linaria vulgaris  
Silphium integrifolium
Rubeckia hirta var. pulcherrima 
Helianthus spp.
Tanacetum vulgare 
Blue
Chicory
Great blue lobelia
Vervain
Bellflower
Cichorium intybus 
Lobelia siphilitica
Verbena spp.
Campanula spp.
Purple/Pink
Common vetch
Thistles   and  plumeless thistles
Tick-trefoil
Wild bergamot
Knapweed
Purple loosestrife
Blazing-star
Vicia sativa subsp. nigra 
Cirsium spp.   and  Carduus spp.
Desmodium spp..
Monarda fistulosa L. subsp. fistulosa
Centaurea spp.
Lythrum salicaria 
Liatris spp.
Red/Orange
Touch--me-not
Day lily
Cardinal Flower
Impatiens capensis 
Hemerocallis fulva
Lobelia cardinalis var. cardinalis

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