Flowers including blue lupine, dotted
horsemint and bush clover, as well as little blue stem and Indian grass also were available this spring in limited supply, said Mark Fiely, a horticulturist and plant collector for Ernst Conservation Seed Co.
The prevailing conspicuous flowers at present [August 21] are the early golden-rods, tansy, the life-everlastings, fleabane (though not for its flower), yarrow (rather dry), hard-hack and meadow-sweet (both getting dry), also Mayweed, purple eupatorium, clethra, rhexia, thoroughwort, Polygala sanguinea, prunella and dogsbane (getting stale), touch-me-not (less observed), Canada snapdragon by roadsides, purple gerardia,
horsemint, marsh speedwell, tall crowfoot (still in flower), also the epilobium and cow-wheat.
Horehound,
horsemint, and the sensitive fern grew close to the edge, under the willows and alders, and wool-grass on the islands, as along the Assabet River in Concord.