Another nice cool night. Two more wildflowers that are starting to bloom profusely haven't been mentioned here yet: boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) and Queen of the Meadow (Eupatorium purpureum).
Here's a link that includes a picture of boneset:
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/eupatoriumperf.html
And here's one for Queen of the Meadow:
http://blueridgegazette.blogspot.com/2006/08/joe-pye-weedqueen-of-meadow.html
Both have been used as medicinal herbs. Boneset gets its English name from the "doctrine of signatures": because the leaves grow together around the stem, people hoped it could cure broken bones (maybe if you sacrificed the right animal in the right phase of the moon). Also, it tastes incredibly bitter, so it ought to be healthy, right? It does actually seem to help people fight off fevers. Queen of the Meadow is better known nowadays as a pretty, showy flower.
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