Thursday, April 6, 2023

Wildflowers 2023

12/19 Field Station, Prairie Conservancy:

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12/14 Big Slough, Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, TX
Pink oleander, live oaks (& fire ants, Texas Longhorns)
12/12 Houston, TX:
Loquat blushes (Eriobotrya japonica), Gregg's Mist flowers/Palmflowers (Conoclinium greggii)
8/6   I think I've been confusing the native Verbena hastata 



 Zizotes Milkweed, Yaupon (red-berry bushes), Gulf Coast Fritillary & Monarch butterflies
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
with the invasive Lythrum salicaria (Purple Loosestrife)! 
                        


7/3    Home, Walker, Kent Co., MI
Native:
  • Bee Balm / Bergamot (purple) Monarda fistulosa
  • Bee Balm / Oswego Tea (red) Monarda didyma
  • Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca
  • Compass Plant Silphium laciniatum
  • Daisy Fleabane Erigeron annuus
  • False Sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides
  • Michigan Lily Lilium michiganense
  • Tickseed Coreopsis Coreopsis palmata
  • Wild Petunia Ruellia humilis
7/3    Blandford Nature Center, Grand Rapids, Kent Co., MI
Native:
  • Bee Balm / Bergamot Monarda fistulosa
  • Butterfly weed Asclepias tuberosa
  • Common Milkweed Asclepias syriaca
  • Daisy Fleabane Erigeron annuus
  • Horse Nettle Solanum carolinense
  • Yarrow Achillea millefolium
Non-native:
  • Bull Thistle
  • Chicory
  • Common Mullein
  • Dame's Rocket
  • Deptford Pink
  • Field Bindweed
  • Goat's beard
  • Herb Robert
  • Hoary Alyssum
  • Moth Mullein Verbascum blattaria
  • Motherwort
  • Oxeye Daisies
  • Red Clover
  • Queen Anne's Lace
  • Spotted Knapweed
  • St. Johnswort
  • Sweet White Clover
  • White Campion
  • White Clover
6/21    Blandford Nature Center/home, Walker, Kent Co., MI
  • Swamp Milkweed Asclepias incarnata
  • Blue Flag Iris versicolor
  • Moth Mullein Verbascum blattaria (non-native)
  • Motherwort Leonurus cardiaca (non-native)
  • Red Bee Balm Monarda didyma [home]
  • Yarrow Achillea millefolium
  • Bladder Campion Silene vulgaris (non-native)
  • Shasta Daisy Leucanthemum × superbum (non-native)
  • False Sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides [home]
5/2    Trethevy, Cornwall, UK (South West Coastal Path)
  • Spring Squill Scilla verna
5/1      Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, UK
  • Sea Campion Silene uniflora 
  • English Stonecrop Sedum anglicum 
  • Sea Thrift Armeria maritima
  • English Bluebells Hyacinthoides non-scripta
  • Common Kidney Vetch Anthyllis vulneraria
  • Horseshoe Vetch Hippocrepis comosa
  • Ramsons Allium ursinum
  • Wood Myosotis sylvatica and Early Myosotis ramosissima Forget-me-nots
  • Honesty Lunaria annua
  • Welsh Poppy Papaver cambricum
4/30    Trethevy and St. Nectan's Glen, Cornwall, UK
  • Red Campion Silene dioica 
  • Greater Stitchwort Stellaria holostea
  • Lesser Celandine Ficaria verna 
  • Wild Arum Arum maculatum
  • Common Wood Sorrel Oxalis acetosella 
  • Sea Aster / Michaelmas Daisy
  • Wood Sorrel Oxalis acetosella
  • Wild Daffodils Narcissus pseudonarcissus
  • Bluebells
  • Common Comfrey Symphytum officinale
  • Herb Robert Geranium robertianum
4/29    Trethevy, Cornwall, UK
  • Chalk Milkwort Polygala calcarea 
4/28    Rhossili, Gower Peninsula, Wales, UK
  • Common Gorse Ulex europaeus 
4/25    Crynant, Wales, UK
  • Common Broom Cytisus scoparius 
  • Common Primrose Primula vulgaris 
  • Common Gorse Ulex europaeus 
4/25    St. Lythans, Wales, UK
  • Lesser Celandine Ficaria verna
4/24    Stroud, Gloustershire, Cotswolds UK
  • Ramsons Allium ursinum 
4/23    Rodborough common, Gloustershire, Cotswolds UK
  • Cowslip Primula veris
  • Early Purple Orchid Orchis mascula
  • Common Gorse Ulex europaeus 
4/22    Stroud, Gloustershire, Cotswolds UK
  • English Bluebells Hyacinthoides non-scripta
  • Wild Arum Arum maculatum
  • Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)
  • Bell Heather Erica cinerea 
4/18    Robinson College gardens, Cambridge, UK
  • Wild Chicory Cichorium intybus
  • Marsh Marigold Caltha palustris
  • Cuckooflower Cardamine pratensis
  • Common Comfrey Symphytum officinale
  • Summer Snowflake Leucojum aestivum
  • Lungwort Pulmonaria officinalis
  • Yellow Archangel Lamium galeobdolon
  • Common Kidney Vetch Anthyllis vulneraria
4/15    Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

  • Buttercups
  • Trout Lilies
  • Bloodroot
  • Cut-leaved Toothwort
  • Dutchman's Breeches
  • Squirrel Corn
  • Trillium
  • Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefolia)
  • Hepatica
  • Spring Beauties
  • Spring Cress
budded but not quite open:

  • Early Meadow Rue
  • Virginia Bluebells
  • Wild Ginger

4/13    Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

  • Bloodroot
  • Cut-leaved Toothwort
  • Dutchman's Breeches
  • Hepatica
  • Spring Beauties
  • Spring Cress
  • Trout Lilies
budded but not quite open flowers:
  • Early Meadow Rue
  • Squirrel Corn

4/6    Blandford Nature Center, Walker, Kent Co., MI

  • Common violets
  • Sweet white violets