July 8, 2007 - Sun Lovers Welcome to the Nature Notebook. Hanging out on warm summer days to catch the sun’s rays are the sun lovers. You’ll find them decked out in their sun dresses in whites, yellows and oranges with a few blues and reds mixed in. You won’t have to travel to a sandy beach to find these sun lovers. Rather, look along roadsides and in open meadows to find a variety of sun tolerant wildflowers. There you can see black-eyed Susan, purple coneflower, foxglove, evening primrose, white snakeroot and many more. Where spring woodland wildflowers are the sprinters of the plant world, these summer wildflowers are the long distance runners. They bide their time, taking measured steps, covering the distance over a longer period. Many of these flowers will bloom for weeks and even months soaking up the sun’s rays until summer ends. This is PPL's naturalist, Jon Beam, with the Nature Notebook for WVIA.