12/19 Field Station, Prairie Conservancy:
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
