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Some of the entries can be seen because of a snafu in LJ that changed the privacy settings in this journal, and I have not gone back to change them to friends only. Most are friends only.

I have tried to post this thing for two days. LJ is just not cooperating!

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I am having trouble IDing this wild flower. I use an Arkansas wildflower image collection to do most of my IDing, but this is not anywhere on it. It may be because it is so small.

I am in zone 7, mircroclimate 6b, in the Ozark mountains, and this is blooming now. The entire clump is about three inches apart, and it appears from the super macros of the flowers that the shape is like that of a calla lily, or jack in the pulpit.

I left the 3 images huge so you can see them.

Does anyone know what this is?

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I have not looked through photobucket yet to see what I need to post about, but I imagine I need to leave 2013 for a separate entry.

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I have not been able to document the work I have done so far, and I am having trouble remembering what has been planted where, so this is a record of what has been planted where. I am TRYING to find time to document, but don't know if I will be able to get to it.

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I have been pleasantly surprised by the wildflowers that are still surviving on the property, despite it being scrapped clean over most of it.

When I came here, I wanted to make sure that the natural NATIVE wild flowers that Arkansas is known for were prevalent on my property. I have been four months trying to find seeds.

Unfortunately, most of the internet sources of wild flower seeds don’t pay much attention to the native species, and they kind of clump cut flower mixes into “wildflower” mixes.

I have purchased a few seeds, but don’t want to introduce US wide “wildflowers” into an area where they are not native, so I am moving slowly. Part of that moving slowly is to see what is growing here naturally, and looking them up to ID them.

So far, not many are available on the commercial sites, although I have purchased showy evening primrose, red clover, orange butterfly weed and turks cap lily seeds. Those are growing on the sides of the roads along with queens anne lace and ORANGE milkweed. Haven’t found seeds for those yet.

My property is not inundated with masses of wildflowers like a lot of places in the state are, but they are kind of a steady stream of smaller groupings.

Four months ago it seemed like they were all pink flowering. Right now is the purple zone. Although I did find one yellow one today.

Here is what I have ID’d naturally on my property so far.

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As some may remember or not, I FINALLY sold my house in GA and took too little money and moved to my property in Arkansas.

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