lady's-lace

Updated: May 29, 2025

All down the brown roads white lady's-lace and yarrow and the stiff purple iron-weed have leaped into bloom; under its faded green coat the sugar-cane shows purple; and sumac and sassafras and gums are afire. The year's last burgeoning of butterflies riots, a tangle of rainbow coloring, dancing in the mellow sunshine.

Marie Conway Oemler - Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man