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Fall's fleeting beauty
Last of the blooms find their mates
Autumn's golden feast

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October 13, 2025

Color image of fall flowers blooming for hungry honeybees to harvest for the coming winter. Golden yellow wingstem blossoms attract a hungry honeybee in the image, with the bee on one of the lowers, against a field of flowering plants and a bright blue sky.

Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia) is usually found in moist soil along waterways. Blooming from August to October, it is an important food source for pollinators and a larval host plant for several lepidoptera. Many bird species feed on the seeds

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Yellow flowers with drooping petals on tall stems.

Wingstem or Yellow Ironweed (Verbesina alternifolia), a major late season pollinator resource and larval host plant.

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Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia), an excellent food source for pollinators, particularly bumblebees.

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Wingstem, or yellow ironweed verbesina alternifiolia. A yellow weedy plant native to eastern north America. As a medicinal plant it is used to treat indigestion and externally for joint pain. No word on if it's edible or not.

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