Butter And Eggs Wildflowers Are Still Blooming On Cape Cod

The pretty yellow and orange Butter and Eggs wildflowers are still blooming on Cape Cod. They are very unique with their irregularly shaped flowers with spurs which grow right off of the stalk. The 1/2 to 1″ flowers resemble a Snapdragon and grow from July to September along roadsides and dry fields. I saw this one along the road to the beach.

Pretty, don’t you think? Have you ever seen a Butter and Eggs wildflower?

Red Bearberry Berries On Cape Cod

The pretty little pink and white bell-shaped Bearberry flowers that bloomed in early summer are now a deep red berry. I loved seeing them on the side of the trail at the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp Trail.

I’m sure they are abundant anywhere there are Bearberry bushes. So pretty, don’t you think? Have you ever seen one?

Grabbing Lunch On Coast Guard Beach On Cape Cod

When a crab washes up on shore, it’s lunch for the first finder, which happened to be this Seagull. He wasn’t letting it go as other Seagulls landed nearby.

He certainly was going to enjoy himself!

Japanese Honeysuckle Wildflowers At Fort Hill On Cape Cod

The Japanese Honeysuckle  are growing profusely at Fort Hill in Eastham. Japanese Honeysuckle is a  fragrant climbing vine with 1“ white flowers that grow in pairs and turn yellow with age. The flowers bloom from June through August and then become black berries.

Japanese Honeysuckle, although the flowers are very pretty, is considered an invasive plant that can smother out other plants in the area.

Have you ever seen Japanese Honeysuckle?

 

 

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