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Bottle Gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)
Photographed October 12. Bottle Gentians are uncommon, though they are not rare enough to be a species of special concern in Pennsylvania. This one was blooming behind a deer fence in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon, so we did what we could with the camera. The flowers appear in the fall, and they never open any more than this. Their purple-tinged blue color gives its name to the color Gentian Blue (#004E7C for you HTML coders).
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Downy Skullcap (Scutellaria incana)
Photographed June 22. Skullcaps (Scutellaria) are members of the mint family that generally prefer open woods. This is one of the most decorative of the genus; these plants were blooming in Bird Park in Mount Lebanon.
Photographed July 11. 
Occasionally some of the flowers are pale; these were blooming on a plant that also bore darker flowers on another branch.
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Bull Thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
Photographed July 8. The big thistle with vase-shaped heads that is the symbol of Scotland and all things Scottish. These were blooming in the median of a parking lot in Brushton.
For a description of the species, see the Cirsium vulgare reference page.
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Chicory (Cichorium intybus)
Photographed July 8. The unmistakable cheery blue flowers that decorate our roadsides in the summer. These were blooming in the median of a parking lot in Brushton.
For a description of the species, see the Cichorium intybus reference page.
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