a Weedy Wordless Wednesday

The wet spring has kept farmers in our area out of the fields longer than expected.  So a couple of weeks ago if you were driving through the country side you might have seen some fields that look like these below.  Although in some ways they do look rather pretty they are weeds.  And weeds limit the ability of crops to grow and produce at their full potential.   Ott, E took these pictures of weed covered fields and helped me identify them to share with you, so the next time you are out driving through the county side and see a field like this you will know exactly what week that is out there blooming.

Above is a field of henbit, which is a part of the mint family and has square stems.

This is a field of cressleaf groundsel.  It has a yellow flower and grows to be about waist high.

This is a picture of purple deadnettle which is closely related to henbit.  It also is a shorter growing weed with small purple flowers.

This post was linked to Outdoor Wednesday, Wordless Wednesday on Live and Love Outloud, Wordless Wednesday on a Project Alicia and Wordless Wednesday on Pinke Post, Farm Girl Friday Blog Hop.