#false dragonhead

Once again (yesterday, September 10), I visited the restored prairie at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois (Chicago metro area). I knew that the yellow wildflowers were continuing their summer riot, so I had to get in the middle of it. Problem was: it was freaking hot. By the time I had finished hiking around (probably about 5 miles with the back and forth and sideways and then the other way), it was 93°. What made it worse: I ran out of water, which has never ever happened to me before in all my years of hiking. I changed my allergy meds, so maybe that was the problem. Whatever, I survived.

Here are some of the photos from yesterday.

Bottle gentian

Crescentspot butterfly (I think) on brown-eyed susan

Spotted forget-me-not

One of the dozen or so kinds of aster growing in this area

Great blue lobelia

Yellow ironweed

False dragonhead

Rosinweed (or maybe one of the types of sunflower).....can’t decide

Brown-eyed susan

Currently in bloom in the garden:

Obedient plant or False dragonhead (Physostegia virginiana)