Found in a woodland edge with both conifers and deciduous trees including birch by a cabin in St. Louis county, Minnesota. Asking out of curiosity - no one has picked or eaten these!
a shot of my garden in the Twin Cities (zone 5a)!
This is the first year with much flowering since last year mostly was spent building good root systems. I haven't watered these plants since getting them established after germination. The path is made with cedar chips, but the garden itself isn't mulched. The very immediate foreground area is growing in a 3+ inch layer of sand as a weed suppression / drought tolerance experiment
I made a seed mix of predominantly native plants with some cultivars and non-natives in the mix. There's a lot more growing here but plainly visible in this shot are:
* Eragrostis spectabilis (purple lovegrass)
* Gaillardia aristata 'Burgunder' (blanket flower cultivar)
* Monarda punctata (spotted bee balm)
* Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower)
* Erigeron sp. (some volunteer fleabane)
* Echinops bannaticus 'Blue Glow' (globe thistle cultivar, non-native)
In Saint Paul. I sowed many forbs and grasses from seed last year. I believe this is a brome and I had sown some Bromus kalmii in my mix. However, my ID confidence on young grass/grasslike plants is low and now that this is getting more mature I'm worried it may be the weedy Bromus japonica which I would want to pull before it went to seed.
Can anyone here help me ID the exact species?