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Flower Watch was created for friends and employees of Staghornsumac.com, so everyone could go out around the United States or the world and take pictures of unknown wild or domesticated flowers and identify them when they get back home, or from their hotel rooms, or from their iPhones in their cars, and then send the findings to the headquarters for Staghornsumac.com and post on this page. Flower Watch is where we allow lesser pictures (imperfect pictures) from the side of the road to post on this page and take the stage.
Centaurium pulchellum
Incident 9/2/2025 Dorset, Vermont. Persicaria's unknown competitor for cutest pink flower in the land. Photographer unknowingly steps on Persicaria on the side of the road in Dorset, but there is only one Persicaria flower, whereas the Centaurium pulchellum has much higher numbers than Persicaria in Dorset. Also known as, the lesser centaury.
Cichorium intybus, common chicory, Chicory wildflower. All over Manchester and Dorset, Vermont, but nowhere to be seen in Shaftsbury around Green Mountain Farms. September 2nd, 2025.
Photo of Sunderland, Vermont taken from Google Maps.
Orange jewelweed, Impatiens capensis, Spotted-touch-me-nots. Location Sunderland, Vermont. On the side of the road by thick forest.
Mountain photograph taken from Manchester Center's Main street 9/2/2025.
I love your newsy flower page! More pictures please.
Centaurium pulchellum, above photo taken from internet and roadside Dorset pictures of Chicory wildflower and Centaurium pulchellum.
Bladder campion (Silene vulgaris) was foraged and then photographed on top of Star at Green Mountain Farms Shaftsbury, Vermont.
New England aster in the swamp patch at Green Mountain Farms 9/6/2025, Wild marjoram and Orange jewelweed.
Calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum) next to the pines at Green Mountain Farms 9/7/2025.
Green buds and white flowers of the Hydrangea bush (Hydrangea arborescens) in Bennington, Vermont 9/8/2025.
Yellow foxtails (Setaria pumila) in Shaftsbury, Vermont 9/9/2025.
Yellow foxtails (Setaria pumila) in the gardens at Green Mountain Farms 9/12/2025.
Aster tataricus in the grassy areas at Green Mountain Farms 9/10/2025.
Shaggy solider (Galinsoga quadriradiata) in the gardens at Green Mountain Farms 9/12/2025.
Baby Northern daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus), baby Calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum), and the flower of the Arugula plant (Eruca sativa) in the gardens at Green Mountain Farms 9/12/2025.
Mountain bog gentian (Gentiana calycosa) and Calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum) at Green Mountain Farms 9/14/2025.
Common yellow woodsorrel (Oxalis stricta) with Shamrock clover (Wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella) at Green Mountain Farms 9/14/2025.
Biggest news flash so far for Flower Watch! Possible Hybrid in the making at Green Mountain Farms.
Above Hybrid aster x daisy!
Common daisy flower (Bellis perennis), (of which only two have been spotted so far this year at Green Mountain Farms, although there have been many more in previous years) has crossed with the New England aster!
NEW DISCOVERY!
The New England aster is coming out of the top of Canada goldenrod!
All of the New England aster at Green Mountain Farms is coming out of the top of Canada goldenrod 9/14/2025.
Common daisy (Bellis perennis) has crossed with New England aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)! Above on blue background, is a new flower at Green Mountain Farms! Hybrid aster x daisy!
Possible fake news flash above. New England aster has possibly crossed with Aster tataricus instead of Common daisy.
Stay tuned for more updates on whether goldenrod has been up to no good with tataricus or Common daisy flower...
It looks like purple goldenrods lavendar color has invaded a patch of Aster tataricus. Reporter is on the scene to try and get a picture of hybrid flowers exact color.
Investigation completed. Reporter has cleared the name of Canada goldenrod. New England aster was nearby the scene and so were two sickly daisys during the last week, but this patch of aster was found under some blue poison berrys. The culprit is pictured to the right. Blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium) seems to have invaded some Aster tataricus and changed the plant a little. Some of the berries have turned blue nearing the end of the season and turned the tataricus lavendar 9/14/2025.
Blackhaw viburnum, scientific name, Viburnum prunifolium. Canada goldenrod has been falsely accused.
Above hybrid Blackhaw berry x Aster tataricus. Hybrid, Viburnum prunifolium x Aster tataricus 9/14/2025.
Forest rouge blackhaw viburnum (Viburnum prunifolium var. forest rouge) small tree/bush and its berries which are un-ripened due to overly cold weather at night in Vermont 9/14/2025. Forest rouge blackhaw viburnum is the culprit and invader who made the lavender-colored Aster tataricus hybrid cross in the month of September at Green Mountain Farms 2025.
White flower of Sweet woodruff (Galium odoratum) 9/14/2025 photographed on back of old Las Vegas, Nevada t-shirt.
Wire grass (Ventenata dubia) in thick field at Green Mountain Farms 9/15/2025.
Bayberry willow (Salix myricoides) in thick field at Green Mountain Farms 9/15/2025.
Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) has possibly crossed with Northern daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus).
For right now, we can't be sure, but reporters on the scene are calling it a fleabane mutation. Stay tuned for more updates on this mutation.
Baby Calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum) next to our farm tree at Green Mountain Farms 9/15/2025.
Breaking news story! A small batch of New England aster has turned hot pink! The cause is unknown at the swamp patch.
Trillium kush marijuana (a variation of Cannabis sativa).
My husband's new favorite plant.
He doesn't want anyone to know.
White meadowsweet (Spiraea alba)
I'm not allowed to sell our one pot of White meadowsweet because he wants it when he gets back from his business trip, but I told him it's going to freeze to death before he gets back...
He says were already married, but he won't give me the certificate...
Is it a Fleabane infestation or a Fleabane mutation?...
Reporter went on the scene to try and see if Northern daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus) had crossed or had been overtaken by Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis). Canada goldenrod is Mr. Populus. He goes around and does everybody and confuses the field and all of its root systems. The following pictures should prove that two rods of Northern daisy fleabane crossed with two different plants and one of them was obviously goldenrod. The other suspect is shown first below, photographed against one of our grape leaves.
Below, seems to be the regular stem of Northern daisy fleabane in this area (it's also the fourth picture shown above un-rotated).
The second and fourth picture are the cross or the mutation of the fleabanes leaf on the rod. These two tall rods or stems of the fleabane are next to a large patch of fleabane. It looks like two got away from the bushel and did their own thing with the first leaf above and Canada goldenrod.
One small patch of Purple New England aster has turned hot pink with no sure explanation as to how it has happened, except that it is frying in the sun for most of the day with a lot of Queen bees around it.
It's supposed to be purple 9/16/2025.
Story Retraction
Care to revise your statement Sir...Calico aster correction from story posted a few days ago 9/14-9/18/2025.
A few days ago Flower Watch posted a story about a flower cross between Forest rouge blackhaw viburnum crossing with Aster tataricus and making a new flower from fall colored blue berries. This news story was incorrect. The light lavendar flower shown below is sort of all over the property at Green Mountain Farms. It is Calico aster. The Calico aster has more than one color apparently, hence its name Calico. Also, the Calico aster might be changing colors a little bit. The new investigative pictures of Calico aster are shown below.
Headline story for Green Mountain Farms...
Green Mountain Farms discovers Chicory wildflower (Cichorium intybus) in the Massachusetts Alps (because the mountains basically look like the Swiss Alps in Switzerland). Which means Chicory wildflowers have been spotted north and south of Green Mountain Farms. Green Mountain Farms has decided to cultivate Chicory wildflowers permanently, as one of its main wildflowers at the fourth field square.
The fourth picture to the right is the new picture of Chicory wildflower found in Massachusetts on September 25th, 2025.
10/3/2025 We have trimmed the biggest buds from the Trillium kush marijuana plant, possibly at its peak. The buds have grown larger since the last photoshoot. Very sticky and pretty strong marijuana with pine tree, top of the pineapple, and tropical punch flavors. Definitely a Cannabis Cup contender. Can't believe the weed tasted this good. We want to try and tree the marijuana plant, but we'll have to see if she lives through the winter. We are trimming the bush instead of cutting off future potential branches. This could be the difference between her living or dehydrating before the next growing season.
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10/9/2025 News story. Green Mountain Farms has been fighting a pricker bush invasion for the last 2 years. The prickers are nice, and some pricker bushes are good, until the pricker bushes consume your house, what seems to be what usually happens if a house goes to long without proper yard care. Common daisy flower used to be everywhere at Green Mountain Farms, but now they are gone. Is it possible the pricker bushes grew too much and eliminated some of our common daisies from the property? Probably. Green Mountain Farms will be purchasing some Common daisy seeds to try and re-populate the fields with regular daisy flowers alongside its new Chicory flower friend whose nickname is the blue daisy.
Time to kill the Pricker Host 11/7/2025. Instead, we just took photos...The Pricker Host is still alive, and even after we chop it all up, it will still be alive. This is what it means to be out in the sticks. You have to cut the sticks, before the sticks cut you.
NEWS STORY ! 10/28/2025 Artist in residence at Staghornsumac.com might attempt a Chicory Common daisy checkerboard poster, whence the flowers have grown. A combination of the famous common daisy and the famous northern mountain blue daisy.
NEWS STORY! 11/10/2025. Common daisy is also called English daisy (possibly her preferred name) and Chicory wildflower is also called Blue daisy and Ice daisy.
11/21/2025 New Violet (Viola odorata) and friends checkerboard below (Violet purple pansy, Dinner plate hibiscus, Wild violets, African violets, Centaurea amethyst in snow).
11/26/2025 Violet update. Common blue violet added from wild (Viola odorata), and Viola minor. There are many different types of flowers listed under the Viola scientific flower name.
11/26/2025 New flower checkerboard added. Pink belladonna, Amaryllis, Christmas begonias, White begonias, Indigo African violets.
11/28/2025 Petunia flowers added to checkerboard 4th grid line down.
11/30/2025 New Lilac bush checkerboard added. 5 grid rows print page for one page of flowers. Lillies at end of checkerboard.
12/2/2025 Berries and Bees. Happy Holidays everyone! 1ST Grid Row-Elderberry-Mulberry-Mulberry-White flowers of the Elderberry bush. And Honeybees!
12/8/2025 Check out new Snowy Fir checkerboards at middle and bottom of page on Mountain Watch. Happy Holidays everyone! Free Bee poster below!
12/13/2025 Centaurium pulchellum was found here at GMF very late in the growing season August 2025.
1/1/2026 New White sweetclover checkerboard added to Home page @ the middle of page. Happy New Years.
12/29/2025 Check out new white t-shirt design on About Staghorn Sumacs page. New Persicaria tree pictures posted to Home page under second price list. Almost New Years! Say goodbye to 2025!
12/29/2025 New flower board added to beginning of Green Mountain Plants page. False sunflowers and New England aster.
1/4/2026 New baby trees added to 2nd price list on Home page. Striped maple, Sugar maple, and Maple cross.
Statement Retraction 1/4/2026
A few months ago, Staghornsumac.com reported that New England aster was supposed to be purple not pink. Staghornsumac.com was wrong. New England aster can come up both pink and purple.
Katie's New Years Eve Metaphor about finding the baby Sugar maple trees at Green Mountain Farms
A quote from the movie "The Fugitive" 1993. "Okay, it's gone by now. (elevated train). No look, I looked there. I looked every place you told me to look, and I didn't see him. I'm telling Ya', he's not in the hospital, if he was in the hospital, I'd of found him. So what do you want me to do? Huh? Hold on. Wait a minute. Nah, I marked him. Ho, I got him now. Sykes played by Andreas Katsulas
Maple tree cross & Maple vine at Green Mountain Farms.
12/31/2025
PERSICARIA HEADLINE NEWS STORY!
1/4/2026 Staghornsumac.com would like to thank our Tree Scientist friend, August Gold, originally from Amherst, Massachusetts, for showing Michael and I approximately one hundred perfect Persicaria trees in downtown Bennington, Vermont! It seems, Persicaria tree can be easily identified in the winter when she loses all her leaves, because her tiny branches are all pink and look like her younger day flower, the Oriental lady's thumb. If you find one in the winter, you should be able to tell it's her right away. Some of the Persicaria trees in downtown Bennington look a little better than the one I found the other day here at Green Mountain Farms on my tree line. It appears that, Persicaria likes the valley more than the top of the mountain here in Shaftsbury. What else is new? Again, thank you to August Gold for sharing his expertise and insight to help us out with our baby trees. MIchael and I will try to take some pictures of the Persicaria trees in downtown Bennington, hopefully before the end of this month.
1/12/2026 These are some of the Persicaria tree pictures from our January 12th photoshoot. Go to the homepage to see more pictures of Persicaria under our second pricelist.
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