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Wildflower ID
« on: June 01, 2017, 07:05:25 pm »

Can anyone help ID this wildflower? I found it at Canton Lake in NW Oklahoma
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Re: Wildflower ID
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2017, 08:12:41 pm »

Appears to be some sort of lobelia to me


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Re: Wildflower ID
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2017, 10:47:14 pm »

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Re: Wildflower ID
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2017, 11:11:17 pm »

I pinned it down with help from a FaceBook friend. It's not a wildflower (which is why I couldn't ID it), it's a fodder plant called "Hairy Vetch" and the blossoms will become a kind of pea. It's used as animal fodder. I found several large patches, apparently growing wild, in a wildlife management area of a lake in NW Oklahoma. So it was probably planted by the staff to provide some food for the wildlife.
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Re: Wildflower ID
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2017, 12:09:42 am »

I found several large patches, apparently growing wild, in a wildlife management area of a lake in NW Oklahoma. So it was probably planted by the staff to provide some food for the wildlife.
More than likely it got there on its own. On my property (western Oregon) it's a weed. It showed up in my little hay field for several years and I worked hard to get rid of it. Like mustard and clover, it is sometimes planted intentionally, then spreads throughout the countryside on it own.
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Re: Wildflower ID
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2017, 10:19:10 am »

I pinned it down with help from a FaceBook friend. It's not a wildflower (which is why I couldn't ID it), it's a fodder plant called "Hairy Vetch" and the blossoms will become a kind of pea.

Scott was right.
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