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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: rgs on June 01, 2017, 07:05:25 pm
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Can anyone help ID this wildflower? I found it at Canton Lake in NW Oklahoma
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Appears to be some sort of lobelia to me
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Vicia?
http://www.missouriplants.com/Bluealt/Vicia_dasycarpa_page.html
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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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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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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.