Favors wet areas; these plants were spotted on the edge of a marshy pond in a small park in the Allegheny valley.
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Green-Headed Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)
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Virgin’s Bower (Clematis virginiana)
A beautiful vine prized in gardens, but only where it has room to take over. It can form a dense canopy, and in the late summer it bursts into thousands of white flowers, looking for all the world like a misplaced snowdrift.
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Snow-on-the-Mountain (Euphorbia marginata)
The showy part of this plant, as with its relative the poinsettia, is the leaf. Only a close view reveals the comparatively insignificant flowers.
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Snow-on-the-Mountain (Euphorbia marginata)
Snow-on-the-Mountain is a common garden escape that grows in sunny vacant lots or along railroad tracks.