Now that our weeds are starting to bloom, we can figure out what many more of them are.

This is motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca). It pops up randomly in our yard and is currently creating a jungle of sorts by our backdoor. It looked innocent enough to begin with (ah, yes, like so many weeds), but it gets big, several feet tall in places, with only tiny pink flowers to show for itself.

Nonetheless, I am a big fan. Why? Because my bees love it. They’re all over those tiny flowers all the time. So it gets to stay, despite the fact that those little flowers look like they’ll lead to prickly little burrs that will stick to clothes and hurt like hell when you step on one.

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By the way, when I was taking this shot, the motherwort I focused in on happened to be next to another much more common weed to Headquarters: nettles. More about them some other time. Anyway, I was bummed that I couldn’t get a honeybee to hold still on one of the flowers long enough to show up in the shot. Then I noticed something else small holding very still…

Can you see it?

Yep, down there at the very bottom…

…a tree frog.