Flowers of KY - Nicotiana, a native blossom
2018-08-16 - Taylor Ford Road, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Without the name, above, and the context from a photo of the rest of the plant, this beautiful native flower is not readily recognizable except by those who grew up having to work in burley tobacco fields and had the chore of "topping" - breaking off the flowers to produce fuller leaves - when practically every farm in South Central Kentucky had a small acreage allotment as the major cash income on the farm. Those hard labor chores and others vexing jobs in the tobacco patch spurred many a youth to pursue careers in engineering, military surface, medicine, law as well as factory jobs in Cold Country, a way up North - anything, they'd swear, which would not involve tobacco! According to the entry in Wikipedia Tobacco, the plant is native to both North and South America. Comments | Permalink
2018-08-16 - Taylor Ford Road, Adair County, KY - Photo by Linda Waggener, ColumbiaMagazine.com
Without the name, above, and the context from a photo of the rest of the plant, this beautiful native flower is not readily recognizable except by those who grew up having to work in burley tobacco fields and had the chore of "topping" - breaking off the flowers to produce fuller leaves - when practically every farm in South Central Kentucky had a small acreage allotment as the major cash income on the farm. Those hard labor chores and others vexing jobs in the tobacco patch spurred many a youth to pursue careers in engineering, military surface, medicine, law as well as factory jobs in Cold Country, a way up North - anything, they'd swear, which would not involve tobacco! According to the entry in Wikipedia Tobacco, the plant is native to both North and South America. Comments | Permalink