Help! What are these lovely flowering plants?
by
Beckie
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Having recently moved to our Little Cabin by the creek, I recently noticed these growing prolificlay on the banks of the Sweet little creek that runs behind our home. Seeing the thorns, I first thought I had somehow been blessed with Bougainvillea! But, as I am in Southern Missouri, I don’t believe it is that Stunning plant that I fell in love with in South Texas years ago.
The bees 🐝 see to Love 💕 them! Can someone please tell me what they are?
Thank you Fellow Home Talkers!
Your picture isn't definitive but it's some sort if legume, in the pea family. Is it a shrub, ground cover, tree?
It does look sort of like sweet peas, a vine, but it has been a long time since I had those on a fence. Will they climb/
looks like wild sweet peas
I found it! It is in the sweet pea family, it's name is Robinia hispida, Bristly Locust, Standing sweet pea. Grows to 8 feet tall and has been planted for erosion control and in the northeast is planted along roadways as a snow break. I googled what looks like a sweet pea and has thorns. It's really pretty.
Love the color! The bees really need this plant, need to get their numbers back up.
I believe they are Ground Nuts, an edible Legume. The "nuts" are potato like nodules growing at the roots. There are several varieties of Ground Nuts. Look them up and compare. At one time they were a favorite wild edible.
Robenia
Sweet peas
Bleeding heart there are a spring plant for partial shade
Mexican Heather? Cuphea? Or is it another plant with the same common name?
It's a locus and will eventually grow into a tree. VERY hard wood, often used throughout the south as fence posts.
I would love to know what it was please. Thanks