The
bluish-purple flowers.
Today,
June 5th,
Louisiana has moved to Phase 2 of the White House’s reopening
strategy.
On
June 1st,
Gov. John Bel Edwards announced, “The people of Louisiana have done
an incredible job flattening the curve here, and I’m thankful for
their compliance and hard work.
Likewise,
the state has matched their efforts by ramping up both testing and
contact tracing. All of this has allowed us to get to a place where
we can move into Phase 2 on Friday.”
In
Phase 2, places of worship and businesses will be able to operate at
50 percent capacity with social distancing, face masks for
public-facing employees, and also increased sanitation. Phase 2 will
last at least 21 days.
The
weather in morning of the first day of Phase 2 was nice, the sunrise
was 6.00 am, and temperature was 80 F.
Several
flowers are blooming
We
walked down to Independent Park to enjoy the summer blooms. Here, I
spotted the blooms in the back of the garden center building, the
bluish-purple flowers.
These
flowers seem showy flowers. The flower are large, shaggy with deeply
serrated edges in their petals, with the white stamens in the center.
Those
flowers are held by strong stems. Their an attractive color and
nectar attract the butterflies, bumblebees, and other pollinators.
Start
to bloom
These
flowers bloom on June. Based on the clusters of flower buds, seem
they will continue bloom for next a couple month. Looking at the
flower buds, they are so appealing; they are surrounded by leafy,
curved toothed bracts.
Flowers
look like wild
These
captivating flowers are giving a cheerfulness in the Phase 2 of
reopening path, then we will move to the next phase.
Have
you seen this plant and its flowers? It is a perennial plant, native
to southeastern US. It is called Stokes' Aster because it is in a
family of Asteraceae, and genus Stokesia. Its species is laevis,
Stokesia
laevis.
