Common mullen has very soft leaves. They were used by the Native Americans as bandages. Then when the colonists came, they used them as inner soles for their shoes. It must of been comfortable! When it blossoms, a tall spire of yellow flowers comes out from the center.

Winter Cress is a plant that lives in wet areas. It can be found mostly in wet medows and by streams or brooks. It comes up very early in the spring, and it is related to musterd. Winter Cress is sometimes called Yellow Rocket because it has yellow flowers that jut out from the stem so they look like flames of a launching rocket.

Thistle is a mean looking plant. It has long, pointy thorns all over its leaves. Good protection against its pedators! Later in the summer it blooms with large pink flowers. The bees love them.

These striking blue flowers will close up at night.

Curly dock is a plant which grows by the water side. This flower first when blooms is a bright emerald. Then as the months pass, the heart-shaped change a vibrant scarlet. Even later, it turns a deep chestnut brown. Its name; "Curly Dock" comes from its surroundings, a dock by the water. This plant looks like a brown lupine when the color has stopped changing. The buds hang on long rods of curled-over brown Curly Dock.

This wild vine produces bright orange fruit covered with a hard yellow shell. Lots of people decorate their doors with this in the fall. It can grow very tall, wrapping around trees, wires, posts, and anything it finds.

Just the right size for rabbits! These pretty pink flowers brighten up any field. Some people say finding a four-leaf clover will bring you good luck.

Yes, it can be deadly! A freshly broken stem has a nutty smell. But wash your hands if you pull out this weed. Don't let the beauty of the red, green, and black berries that form after purple flowers fool you. This little vine can kill a cow in an untended pasture!

You can find this along the beach. Its silvery bristles shimmer in the wind. This plant was brought over to America. It was not native.

Beautiful pink flowers are all over this plant! If you break the stem, a milky substance comes dripping out. In the late fall, little seed pods break open and send hundreds of little sends scattering through the air on a windy day. These seeds find their way into all sorts of nooks and crannies.

Bold leaves with spikey little pods that look like they are from outer space! These little pods eventually turn into horse chestnuts. They are not edible, but they are lovely in arrangements and decorations.

This weed will find any crack or crevice in which to grow. A single stem eventually fills out to form a large, bushy plant. The colonists found it to be handy to use as a broom. It stays green for a while, slowly turns shades of pink and finally dries to a beige.

It looks like a delicate, wild daisy.

This wild morning glory is making good use of the phragmites stalk! The flower opens in the morning and closes at night.

A beautiful, delicate white flower fit for a queen. If you pick the flower and press it between the pages of a heavy old book, it dries perfectly.

You can make a jelly out of these berries. They are high in vitamin C. At the beginning of the summer these beach roses have a bright pink flower.

This is one of the first things to bloom each Spring. It comes with purple flowers or pink flowers.