Eating sunflower seeds.
Visual Description: Purple berries on plants. 40-50 berries per cluster.
Habitat: This organism was found at the Lettuce Lake Conservation Park in Tampa Florida (forest habitat). They are usually found in woods, particularly on moist areas under open pine canopies, thickets, right of ways, and fence rows
References:
USDA
https://plants.usda.gov/DocumentLibrary/factsheet/pdf/fs_caam2.pdf
Did a 20-mile bike ride with my dad, who just turned 80 and is in much better shape than me 😭
At the Chicago Botanic Garden - Absolutely beautiful place. This patch of Eupatorium perfoliatum "Blind Date" had an insane concentration of insects - probably half the Illinois native bees and wasps were buzzing around this one stand of plants. I only photographed a small percentage of them but it was nuts!
(Pocket Camera Photos)
Under large white and red oaks
Just lovely