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July nature study

A daylily.

Some sort of star thistle?

Bachelor's button.

Golden tickseed (Coreopsis tinctoria)

Corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas)

Toadflax?

Creeping baby's-breath?

Cosmos
Chicory (Cichorium intybus)

Capeweed (Arctotheca calendula)



Rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea)

Eastern daisy fleabane (Erigeron annuus)

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