Can you help with identifying these flowers? The photos were taken by a friend in Ontario, Canada. She was walking her property to cut some dried flower heads to make a "winter interest" patio pot. Part of the property is wetlands, if that helps any. I apologize but these are the only two photos I have to aid in the identification. She said the American Goldfinch are fond of the seeds of the yellow flowered plant but I don't have any further info on the second photo.
OK, I've spent the past couple of hours looking up Oenothera and Anemone. The closest match (but still doesn't look quite right to me..?) is Anemone virginianica http://www.missouriplants.com/Whitealt/Anemone_virginiana_page.html . On the Oenothera, most of the photos showed a really 'loose' grouping of flowers until I ran across this photo: http://www.ph-linz.at/LuF/flora/oenothera.gif which shows the small tight grouping of flowers that the photo I posted shows. The site is in German I believe ( http://www.ph-linz.at/LuF/flora/Besondere_Arten_M-P.html) so of course I myself was lost as a goose! lol I searched for Oenothera parviflora and didn't find many matches yet. Still looking to figure all this out. Thanks for the tips, I hope I can find the right matches! Tiffany
The bunched evening primrose flowers coming out of the top of the dried seed stalk is atypical, an aberration. The previous flowers were produced in a narrow spike-like arrangement, where the dry and opened pods are now.
