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Butterweed
Packera glabella
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Butterweed is a plant that looks like an alien invasive species, but is in fact native to Indiana, mostly southern Indiana. It looks invasive because if there is a wet spring when the farmers don't get out to plow early, Butterweed will fill the wet parts of the field with bright yellow flowers. It's actually quite spectacular.
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| There are a multitude of bright yellow flowers in the spring |
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| The stem is hollow and green or reddish green with longitudinal veins |
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| The leaves are quite irregular and generally look somewhat ragged |
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| A typical lower leaf |
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| The plants tend to grow in wetter soils |
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| Grasshopper sparrow singing from the top of a Butterweed! |
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