Silent Sunday – Robin’s Plantain

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Eliza Waters

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61 Responses to Silent Sunday – Robin’s Plantain

  1. John says:
    June 24, 2023 at 11:03 pm

    Delicate Beauty. 😊

  3. Dale says:
    June 24, 2023 at 11:48 pm

    Is that what they are called? Lovely!

  5. Steve Gingold says:
    June 25, 2023 at 4:35 am

    This is an excellent year for them. They seem to be everywhere and attract a lot of different pollinators. Lovely, Eliza!

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  7. Chris Mousseau says:
    June 25, 2023 at 6:44 am

    A much more intriguing name than hairy fleabane!

  8. Treah Pichette says:
    June 25, 2023 at 8:01 am

    Is this also erigeron? By any name, a sure sign of summer!

    • Eliza Waters says:
      June 25, 2023 at 11:55 am

      Yes, (see tag line for genus/species). It is a cousin to fleabane, E. annuus. Both wildflowers, even if they self-sow all over, I still love. 🙂

  9. Alice says:
    June 25, 2023 at 8:07 am

    I love that it attracts pollinators, but these aster types self-sow too readily around here…must love the soil.

  10. automatic gardener says:
    June 25, 2023 at 8:16 am

    Is that a wildflower?

  11. shoreacres says:
    June 25, 2023 at 8:23 am

    How in the world did this Erigeron species get tagged with a ‘plantain’ name? I thought you’d posted the wrong photo, until I looked at your tags!

    • Eliza Waters says:
      June 25, 2023 at 11:50 am

      I’m guessing that early settlers, who brought Plantago major, the broadleaf plantain, with them saw the basal leaf clusters of this Erigeron and named it thus… the robin part? Maybe they saw robins collecting the fluff for its nest? Who knows?

  12. theshrubqueen says:
    June 25, 2023 at 9:34 am

    Never would have thought that was a Plantain! Great.

  13. Ellen says:
    June 25, 2023 at 10:24 am

    Looks like an aster

  14. Murtagh's Meadow says:
    June 25, 2023 at 10:36 am

    How pretty. Looks like our sea aster.

    • Eliza Waters says:
      June 25, 2023 at 11:24 am

      Thank you, Karina. It is of the Aster family, our earliest ‘aster’ wildflower to bloom. I mow (as do many neighbors) around clumps in the lawn until they go to seed. 🙂

  15. Adele Brand says:
    June 25, 2023 at 10:40 am

    I was also thinking that it looked like an aster.

  16. rabbitpatchdiary.com says:
    June 25, 2023 at 10:48 am

    All of yours are beautiful-you have the eye, for sure. Where do you find such wonder? Is it your property? Or do you wander around gathering sweet splendor in nature?

  17. Jet Eliot says:
    June 25, 2023 at 11:06 am

    There’s something sweet and carefree about this photo, Eliza. Thank you.

  18. Debbie says:
    June 25, 2023 at 2:50 pm

    I’d have called this a Daisy — thanks for setting me straight, Eliza!!

  20. Kris P says:
    June 25, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    I immediately recognized it as an Erigeron, although yours is a different species than those I grow, which are E. glaucus. They’be lovely plants.

  21. A Curious Introvert says:
    June 25, 2023 at 5:52 pm

    Love how you captured the feeling of wandering through a field of these lovely flowers!🙂

  22. Pepper says:
    June 25, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    They have popped up here too. Thanks for the identification. 😊

  25. Maria says:
    June 25, 2023 at 10:54 pm

    So so pretty, the soft colours makes me think of early summer.

  26. Steve Schwartzman says:
    June 26, 2023 at 7:03 am

    I found from the USDA map that this Erigeron species blankets the eastern half of the country and even makes it into east Texas. It doesn’t look much different from the Erigeron modestus we have in Austin.

  28. Cathy says:
    June 26, 2023 at 8:55 am

    What pretty daisies Eliza. Our Erigeron annuus have started flowering here and they sometimes have a slightly pink tinge to them. Yours are prettier though! 😃

    • Eliza Waters says:
      June 26, 2023 at 9:37 am

      Thank you, Cathy. Fortunately, we enjoy both species here, so we have sweet little daisies in bloom all summer, much to pollinator’s delight.

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