Gardening for Old Folks (Adaptative)

[bruceha2000]

Can anyone identify this flower? I mowed the fields this weekend and left a number of patches where there were a lot of these. The bees seem to like them. I thought maybe Bee Balm since the flower looks similar but from the pictures I find on Google, the leaves are somewhat different and mine are alternating on the stem, the Bee Balm seems to be bilateral.

 

[sharron]

Can anyone identify this flower? I mowed the fields this weekend and left a number of patches where there were a lot of these. The bees seem to like them. I thought maybe Bee Balm since the flower looks similar but from the pictures I find on Google, the leaves are somewhat different and mine are alternating on the stem, the Bee Balm seems to be bilateral.
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are they a wild flower bruce? the bloom looks kinda like a bachelor button but i can't really see what the leaves look like

 

[Sueby]

What do you guys think... baby lemon cukes or a mutant?

 

[R2elk]

What do you guys think... baby lemon cukes or a mutant?

The first and last pics are of ones that did not get fertilized so difficult to tell what they were supposed to grow into.

 

[Sueby]

There are maybe 5 just like that on a vine about 4-5 feet tall. They all look un-polinated to me and for sure they don't look like the cukes I thought I was buying!

 

[bruceha2000]

are they a wild flower bruce? the bloom looks kinda like a bachelor button but i can't really see what the leaves look like

That could be, the leaves look similar to what I find on the web.
Are they a wildflower? You tell me! There are some in the flower beds by the house and a WHOLE lot more out in the fields. Did something from the yard get spread into the field or the other way around?

 

[sharron]

There are maybe 5 just like that on a vine about 4-5 feet tall. They all look un-polinated to me and for sure they don't look like the cukes I thought I was buying!

what did you think you were buying and from where?

 

[sharron]

That could be, the leaves look similar to what I find on the web.
Are they a wildflower? You tell me! There are some in the flower beds by the house and a WHOLE lot more out in the fields. Did something from the yard get spread into the field or the other way around?

who knows, wind or birds could have spread them either way, but still think the blooms look like a bachelor button, the color looks like a chicory but not the petals

 

[Leahs Mom]

Can anyone identify this flower? I mowed the fields this weekend and left a number of patches where there were a lot of these. The bees seem to like them. I thought maybe Bee Balm since the flower looks similar but from the pictures I find on Google, the leaves are somewhat different and mine are alternating on the stem, the Bee Balm seems to be bilateral.
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Is it possibly an Aster?

 

[bruceha2000]

A response from someone who asked a flower knowledgeable friend says they are Stokesia laevis. A number of Google pictures for that also say Stokes Aster so apparently yes @Leahs Mom !! Of course there are a bazillion varieties and they are apparently native to the SE USA so my bet is they were originally purchased at a nursery for the flower garden and spread to the untended field.