False Sunflower

Noticed these showy flowers growing wildly at the roadside near the convenience store I frequent.   The flowers look similar to False Sunflower, Smooth Oxeye,  Heliopsis helianthoides, a species in the Aster family.  It looks like this plant has mastered every survival skill.

I learn more about God

from weeds than from roses;

Resilience springing

through the smallest chink of hope

in the absolute of concrete...

~ Phillip Pulfrey

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Yellow Creeper

 Spotted this pale yellow creeper at the river bank. 

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”  ~ Rumi

 

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Wildflower/Mellow Yellow Monday

"And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.” ~ Rilke

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Singapore Daisy

Singapore Daisy, Sphagneticola trilobata, Wedelia lobata

Found this plant/flower growing wildly at the beach in Negros.  I didn't know the name until recently when I saw it as a ground-cover at a riverbank park.  The park caretaker told me it's called Singapore Daisy, and it is considered a weed.  A South American native,  it is now common in the tropical and sub-tropical areas.  Singapore Daisy is deliberately planted as roadside and embankment stabilizer.  It forms dense infestations along undisturbed edges of rainforests and coastal areas.

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A weed is but an unloved flower. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sunshine/MYM

A spot of sunshine by the banks of a river.
How would you describe this yellow flower to a blind person?

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Wildflower

Let her cry for she's a lady

Let her dream for she's a child

Let the rain fall down upon her

She's a free and gentle flower growing wild...

~ Wildflower by Skylark

A familiar wildflower I spotted in Culion Island.  I don't know the name of this wildflower but I used to call it "Christmas" when I was a kid.  A wildflower from childhood---perfect for my birthday.:p

More beautiful flowers at Macro Flowers Saturday and Today's Flowers