The lavender Asters are blooming everywhere you look on Cape Cod. If you look on the sides of the roads or the sides of the trails, I’m sure you will see many of them!
Delicate little wildflower, don’t you think?
Category Archives: Cape Cod Wildflowers
Vibrant, Yellow Common Tansy Wildflower At Fort Hill On Cape Cod.
Japanese Honeysuckle Wildflowers On Cape Cod.
I have seen many wild Japanese Honeysuckle wildflowers blooming on Cape Cod this past summer… and even into the fall. They are a climbing vine with delicate, fragrant, white flowers that grow in pairs, turning yellow with age.
Another invasive plant, the Japanese Honeysuckle can smother out other plants.
Multi-Colored Porcelain-Berries At Fort Hill On Cape Cod.
If you take the trail from the lower parking lot up to Carving Rock at Fort Hill, you can see the most beautiful multi-colored “Porcelain- berries” all along the trail on the left side. They are just exquisite! I have never them before and had no idea what they were. (Click on blog link to see other photo.)
“Porcelain-berry is a deciduous, perennial, woody vine from Asia that can grow 10 to 15 feet a year. A relative of our native grapes, porcelain-berry produces distinctive fruits in late summer and early fall that change from lilac or green to bright blue.”
But there is a major problem: “It invades field and field edges and spreads rapidly. Porcelain-berry climbs on and over native plants, much like oriental bittersweet. Currently it is mostly found in southeastern Massachusetts and along the coast. Birds are attracted to the fruit and spread the seeds.”
Although they are beautiful and look like a vine of tiny colorful Easter eggs, they are a very invasive plant in Massachusetts.
Beautiful Buttonbush Wildflowers At The Visitor Center In Eastham On Cape Cod.
Buttonbush wildflowers, also known as “honey balls” grow on a large shrub near swamps and ponds. The flowers are tiny and white and look just like little pincushions. (Click on blog link to see other photo.)
If you follow the Buttonbush Trail by the National Seashore Visitor Center in Eastham you can see many of these bushes abundant with flowers down by the pond. They bloom in mid to late August. I had never seen them before and thought they were pretty unique.
I took the first photograph at the end of August and then went back this week and took the 2nd photograph after it had gone by. Pretty cool, don’t you think?