Wild flowers at Gettysburg.

Neil

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WHAT? I know it's a strange title but I'm looking to buy material to finish off the bases on my wargames miniatures modelled on units at Gettysburg. While looking through the selection of ground cover for the figure bases I noticed a large selection flower colours available and as the battle was in the summer I thought I could add some to the bases.
Now this is where you guys can help me out. Could anyone local to the area give me an idea of the predominant colour of the wild flowers so I don't get it completely wrong. I assume that there would of been a lot more wild flowers around in those days and it will help add extra colour to the blues and greys.
Cheers.
Neil.
 
Check out the park's site" https://www.nps.gov/gett/learn/nature/wildflowers.htm
and: https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/blooming-now-on-the-gettysburg-battlefield/
and: http://www.ohranger.com/gettysburg/plants

Some of the color you may wish to portray in your project may specifically relate to the terrain you are representing. For example, some of the wild flowers that thrive in a marshy or wet environ will be different than those of a prairie type field or woodland. As a generalization, you may be safe with small whites and yellows with a splash of a purple representing the violets that grow practically anywhere on the field. Remember, some of these flowers are small and will not carpet the area with color, but rather a dot here and there, small clumps.
 
Here are some wild flowers as seen in mid-June at the crest of LRT
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I always enjoy reading about little details like these, especially when it has to do with nature. It's so beautiful and peaceful now, you kinda forget sometimes there was a battle.
 
Check out the park's site" https://www.nps.gov/gett/learn/nature/wildflowers.htm
and: https://npsgnmp.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/blooming-now-on-the-gettysburg-battlefield/
and: http://www.ohranger.com/gettysburg/plants

Some of the color you may wish to portray in your project may specifically relate to the terrain you are representing. For example, some of the wild flowers that thrive in a marshy or wet environ will be different than those of a prairie type field or woodland. As a generalization, you may be safe with small whites and yellows with a splash of a purple representing the violets that grow practically anywhere on the field. Remember, some of these flowers are small and will not carpet the area with color, but rather a dot here and there, small clumps.

In mid-summer, you will find Black-eyed Susans, daisies, butterfly weed, wild carrots/Queen Anne's lace, thistle, tiger lilies and chicory. That is, yellow and brown, white and yellow,orange yellow, white, pink, orange, and blue. With the exception of the tiger lilies, those flowers grown in small clumps; tiger lilies grown in larger patches in marshy areas.
 
Oh, and in the spring around the battlefield, you will find patches of daffodils that once were growing where there had been housed, but now have naturalized. Especially on Oak Ridge, near where the Forney Farm had been.
 
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