Unbelievable how much botanical diversity there is on slag and other industrial waste. These are just the obvious ones! think what lies beneath…

salsify gone to seed

honeysuckle

cottonwood saplings

common milkweed

fleabane

viper’s bugloss

a brassy lassy

creeping thistle

great mullein

scale insects on cottonwood

fleabane in the distance; evening primrose and whorled milkweed up close

boneset coming up

butterfly milkweed + fleabane

bonsai cottonwood

whorled milkweed