Something Blue
They come in late August along the wet edges of the branch beside the house, and decorate the banks along the new road. Even when the air is thick with humidity and paled by summer haze, this blue wildflower makes me think ahead to the clearest skies of all the year when the sky will be, for a few days, this same deep lobelia-blue, and clear enough to see the gossamer spiders.
Comments
Isn't this Penstemon? We have a similar variety in the West named "Rocky Mountian Blue" (Penstemon strictus)
They are of the Scrophulariaceae family. The same family of genera such as Verbascum, Digitalis, Veronica, and Chelone to name a few.
Posted by: BJ | September 15, 2005 11:59 AM