Sunday, March 4, 2018

Wildflowers 2018

6/10/18 Blandford Nature Center:
White: Blackberries, Daisies, Yarrow
Yellow: Cinquefoil - but is it native Potentilla gracilis (Slender) or the invasive recta (Sulfur)? Good description and images at https://cascadiaprairieoak.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Sulphur-Cinquefoil-Identification.pdf
non-natives: Multiflora rose (invasive!), Goatsbeard

5/23/18 Aman Park:
White Baneberry
Red Baneberry
Trillium (dying)
Mayapples
Canada Violets
False Rue Anemone

Wild Ginger

Wild Geranium

Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
Virginia Bluebells

Buttercups
Winter Cress (non-native, Burbarea vulgaris, aka Yellow rocket, mustard family Brassicaceae) https://virginiawildflowers.org/2015/05/09/yellow-rocket/


5/15/18  Blandford Nature Center:
wild strawberries
Mayapples
Jacks in the Pulpit

5/7/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Downy yellow violets

5/5/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Wild Geranium

5/2/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Blue Cohosh
False Rue Anemones
Wild Leeks
Marsh Marigolds
Mayapples budded
Canada Violet (white)

garter snake

5/1/18 Aman Park:
Bloodroots
Cut-leaved Toothwort
Dutchman's Breeches
Wood Anemone
Hepatica (so blue this year!)
Spring Beauties
Pink Spring Cress (Cardamine douglassii)
Trillium
Trout Lilies
Common Violets

non-natives:
Leafy Spurge
Myrtle


4/22/18
Blandford Nature Center: violets, 1st dandelion

3/2/18
While not wildflowers, the Snowdrops are blooming!

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