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