https://prairieecologist.com/2020/01/13/finally-a-practical-guide-for-roadside-wildflower-viewing/
“Black-eyed Susans are a common roadside wildflower. They can often be distinguished from upright yellow coneflowers because the darker brown/black streaks are embedded within the broader yellow streaks in black-eyed Susans, whereas those dark streaks are usually above the yellow in upright yellow coneflowers.”
You’re welcome. 
If you’ve made observations as a passenger in a vehicle there is a project for you! https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ethaning
Oh my gosh, there are some mountain flower banks I go past regularly where there’s no safe place to stop- “Road iNatting” is the solution?!
Definitely guilty of that … I have a joshua tree observation in the middle of nowhere from taking a photo out of the window because there was snow on the ground.
Could be! It often is for @astrobirder.
This is the best thing ever
Well done. Well done claps hysterically
i love ethaning, been doing it long before it had a name. white pines are a good target.
I have lines going across NY like an octopus and one long line down to Raleigh, NY from all of the me-ing I’ve done
Yeah I have tons of old ones I’m slowly adding to that project over time.
What if I currently have something already in my list of observations that would fall into this category and wanted to add it to this community? How would I do that?
you can join the project and add the observations to it
The only limitation is that you have to be in an active vehicle. That means running cars, running boats, a canoe drifting down stream, an airplane, the ISS, etc.
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Been worrying about all those blurry plant pictures we just can’t identify? Here’s the tool we’ve been waiting for!
https://prairieecologist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/a-field-guide-to-roadside-wildflowers-at-full-speed_january2020-1.pdf
This guide concentrates on the prairie states of central North America, but surely the concept could be expanded.
I’m looking through it saying “yeah, I’ve seen those… and yup… OH! THAT’S what that was…”
Ha! That is full speed, all right.
I could swear I have seen these exact things in Europe. Are these the invasive species everyone is talking about?
Edit: Ah. I see it has listed similar species. I think I have seen “anything with white flowers” then. But I wonder what the scientific name of that species is
is there a version for grasses?
From Barbara’s link:
What good is a field guide that relies upon . . . minute differences in leaf shape when a flower is seen from a car traveling 70 miles per hour? [112 km per hour]
The world desperately needs a guide that . . . identifies characteristics of wildflowers as most people actually experience them. This is that guide.
When I had a class on tree and shrub ID, the instructor said, “You will train on these IDs until you can do them drunk, from a car, as you’re speeding down the highway!”