Wildflowers 2020

August 27-28, Home and Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Home: Pale beauty moths on chimney: Campaea perlata

BNC: Giant ragweed (awful invasive), Goldenrod, Jewelweed, all kinds of berries

July 14, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.
Bee Balm
Wild Leeks blooming (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Allium_tricoccum#/media/File:Allium_tricoccum_-_Ramps.jpg )
Wild Grapes fruiting
Black Swallowtail butterflies
Dragonflies: Ebony Jewelwing; Widow Skimmer

June 30, home and Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.
Tickseed
Common Milkweed 
Blanket Flower
St. John's Wort (non-native)
Jewelweed
Chicory (non-native)

June 28, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Swamp Milkweed

Butterfly Weed

Black-eyed Susans

June 17, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Evening Primrose

June 16, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Alfalfa (non-native)

Daisies

Daisy Fleabane

Dame's Rocket / Money Plant (invasive)

Goat's Beard (Tragopogon, non-native)

Rugosa Rose (invasive, but gorgeous aroma)

Yarrow / Milfoil

White Campion (non-native)

June 15, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Penstemon: Beard-Tongue (not sure which kind), at west edge of fenced farm field

May 16, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.
Wild Geraniums

May 6, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.
Marsh Marigolds

May 3, Aman Park, Ottawa Co.
Trilliums
Yellow violets
Large-flowered Bellwort
Buttercups
Jacks-in-the-Pulpit
Blue Cohosh
 
May 1, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

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

April 25, Aman Park, Ottawa Co.
white:

• Bloodroot
• Dutchman's Breeches
• Cut-leaved Toothworts
• False Rue Anemone
• Trillium

pink/purple:

• Hepatica
• Spring Beauties
• Pink Spring Cress (Cardamine douglassii)

greenish:

• Blue Cohosh

blue:

• Virginia Bluebells budded

yellow:

• Trout Lilies
• Buttercup (1 only)

reddish:

• Wild Ginger budded

April 19, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

• Spring Beauties
• Cut-leaved Toothworts
• False Rue Anemone
• Marsh Marigolds

A ton of turtles on logs in and around the pond at the corner of Hillburn Ave NW and Trail St. NW

April 13, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

• Bloodroots!
• Spring Beauties
• Skunk cabbage and Mayapples leafed out
• Blue Cohosh, Dutchman's Breeches, Trillium, Trout Lilies, and Winter Cress (non-native) budded

April 12, Millennium Park, Kent Co.

• Spring Beauty
• Pussy willows
• Myrtle (non-native, invasive)

April 8, Walker, Kent Co. (home)

• Cut-leaved Toothwort blooming (volunteers)
• Violets - Common purple, Canada white, lavender

April 5, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

• Wild leeks everywhere!
• Cut-leaved Toothwort budded

March 29, Aman Park, Ottawa Co.
Hepatica!