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| Lilac. It seems everybody here has a lilac bush. The streets are perfumed. |
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| Unidentified flowers growing in a great mound by a driveway. Beautiful, even the dying ones in the centre. |
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| I had to sit on the curb for this one. A tiny, tiny vetch, growing in cracks in the cement. |
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| Zooming in. |
Vetches can be differentiated from most of the other members of Fabaceae by the fact that the terminal leaflet of each set of leaves is actually a tendril. (Islandnature.ca)
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| Purple iris |
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| Zooming in. A "come hither" wave for pollinators. The yellow pollen banks remind me of the opalescent nudibranch. |
Can't believe it! The Lilac buds are strting to swell here, and the Iris leaves are 2" out of the ground, but we won't see blooms for 4-6 weeks yet!
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