Identifying this shrub from my phone’s image search turned into a mystery game. I found image upon image of different shrubs sharing similarities to this one. According to one particular image descriptions, this type of shrub is found along water sources; we found this shrub near a duck pond. It’s called seepwillow, water-wally, and mule fat. The fuzzy and sticky flowers attract butterflies. I’m interested to how it will look after the flowers have bloomed.
This post is for Cee’s FOTD challenge! Thanks Cee for hosting this challenge and for posting the list of challenges we can do.
Categories: flower of the day
singlikewildflowers
Welcome to my blog! My name is Esther and I'm so happy you are here. I'm an avid nature photographer and a daydreaming thinker. My posts revolve around photos of nature's beauty, homeschooling adventures with my 2 kids, sporadic reflections on my child's heart condition, Bible reading reflections, gardening feats, and other mish mash things. Hopefully you'll leave encouraged, pensive, or smiling at the simple things of life. Thank you for stopping by and hope you'll find some interesting posts to read!
sing like wildflowers 
Beautiful close up and post. 😀
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Thank you! I’m glad you like it. Have a great rest of the weekend.
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That is different Esther – never have seen one of these. It attracts butterflies as it’s pretty … they won’t come to visit based on the nicknames of the plant. 🙂
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I agree, so pretty but with odd nicknames! I wonder if the naming person was having a bad day when he/she came up with the names.
The flowers are small but they play a big role for the butterflies.
I am totally behind on my comments this weekend…I’ll get back soon. Have a wonderful rest of the weekend. 🙂
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I sometimes catch up in Reader before Comments … it’s difficult to keep up. Don’t sweat it and you enjoy your weekend as well Esther.
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I may take your suggestion! Thank you for sharing it with me and hope you are having a good Tuesday. 🙂
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Yes try that Esther … I feel badly answering comments for my own posts if I’m hopefully behind in Reader.
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I feel badly when I’m behind on Reader and replying to comments on my blog in a timely manner. Yes I will try your suggestion. 🙂
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I caught up on Thursday night, then again on Sunday night. I am going to be behind again as I’m going to bed early. I had an excursion to the grocery store, gas station and allergy shot and left the house at 7:45 a.m. Got everything done and back at work timely … been nodding off all afternoon. It was beautiful here today – 80 degrees which is way above normal. I didn’t take my own suggestion tonight and came to Comments so now two days behind, but I’ve been five days behind and it took me a long time to catch up.
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