Sweet clover seeds are ripe and ready to fall to the ground, where they will lay for years until the field grasses are mowed, burned, or tilled. Then there will be enough light for them to sprout and grow a new jungle of sweet clover plants. Bobolinks gather at sweet clover seed sources in mid August to gorge and fatten up before flying off to the prairies of Brazil and Argentina. Late August Apples are getting ripe their brown seeds indicate maturity. Wild plums are turning blue, as are wild grapes.
Raccoons gorge on the plums and poop out the seeds.
Ragweed blooms from August into September. This plant produces pollen out of all proportion to the number of seeds that develop. Clouds of the yellow pollen are carried on the wind and bring grief to hay fever sufferers everywhere. The oily nut-like seeds are eagerly eaten by cardinals and wild sparrows. Their favorite fruits are gray dogwood, red osier dogwood, Virginia Creeper, wild grape, nannyberry viburnum, mulberries, and wild cherries.