Here are new photos from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The weather has been hot but beautiful, especially by the sea.
On the island, the blue flowers you see below are called Ragged Sailors, but elsewhere, the weed is called chicory.
The variation in plants’ common names is the reason a landscaper I know uses only Latin names (one name per plant). When we identify plants at John’s website MisterSmartyPlants, we use common names. That can get confusing, but it’s nice how common names tell something about the people that use local names.
Wikipedia says chicory is called by all these names: blue daisy, blue dandelion, blue sailor, blue weed, bunk (bunk?), coffeeweed, cornflower, hendibeh, horseweed, ragged sailor, succory, wild bachelor’s buttons, and wild endive. And those are only the English names.
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