Wildflowers 2025

9/11 Walnut Creek Preserve, Mill Spring, Polk Co., NC:

• Running Cedar (Lycopodium digitatum or obscurum)
• Downy Lobelia (Lobelia puberula)
• Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus)
• Carolina Phlox (Phlox carolina)
• Elephant's foot (Elephantopus tomentosus)
• Sensitive Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista nictitans)
• Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
• Hog peanuts (Amphicarpaea bracteata) If you dig near the base of the stems and where the vines go into the ground there are edible legumes - the hulls pull off easily. You can eat them raw or boiled and they taste a lot like string beans)

9/9 Walnut Creek Preserve, Mill Spring, Polk Co., NC:

      Find a Plant, NC Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox

• Few-flower Milkweed (Asclepias lanceolata) - compared to Butterfly weed (A. tuberosa)
• American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana)
• Rattlebox (Ludwigia alternifolia)
• Appalachian Ironweed (Vernonia glauca)
• Rough Hawkweed (Hieracium scabrum)
• Roadside Thistle (Cirsium altissimum)
• Purple or Hollow Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum or fistulosum)
• Green-head Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)
• Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
• Goldenrod (Solidago)

• Round-headed Bush Clover (Lespedeza capitata) ?
• Asiatic dayflower (Commelina communis) - non-native

9/7 Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, McCreary & Whitley Co's, KY:

• Maryland Golden Aster (Chrysopsis mariana)
• Carolina Elephant's Foot (Elephantopus carolinianus)
• Little Brown Jug / Arrowleaf Ginger (Hexastylis arifolia)
• Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora) - non-native
• Purple or Hollow Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum or fistulosum)
• Orange Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
• Rosinweed (Silphium)
• Goldenrod (Solidago)

7/7 Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• White-flowered Chicory (Cichorium intybus f. album Neuman = white form and Neuman being the person who documented it?) It's also known as Italian chicory, or raddichio. 

7/4 Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Cuyahoga Co., OH: Beaver Marsh

• Field Horsetails (Equisetum arvense)
• Spatterdock / Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar advena)

6/22 Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Yellow Iris

6/21 Home:

Ate a couple of Serviceberries - sort of look like blueberries, but less/different flavor

 6/16 Source Pond Trail, Kalamazoo Nature Center, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)

5/26 Wolf Tree Nature Trails, Oshtemo Township, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Wild Strawberries (Fragaria)
• Wild Black Raspberries
• Columbine
• Wild Phlox
• Golden Ragwort
• Common Cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex)
• Celandine? at edge of swampy pond

5/13 Kal-Haven Trail (trailhead to F), Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Mayapples
• Wild Geraniums
• Golden Ragwort
• Solomon's Seal (true) (Polygonatum biflorum)
• Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)

5/9  Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Wild Ginger 
• Honeysuckle 

5/3  Learned from Mr. Breyfogle that apples and roses are in the same family, which is why apple blossoms smell as delicious as roses!

5/2  Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Red trillium (Trillium erectum)
• Flowering Dogwood
• Lilacs

4/29 Kal-Haven Trail (trailhead to F and 8th), Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Wild geraniums
• Solomon's Seal
• Celandine Wood Poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum) (Donna will share some with me!)
• Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)
• Golden Ragwort (Packera aurea)

4/27  Kalamazoo Nature Center, Maple Beech Trail, Kalamazoo Co., MI: 

• Blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia verna) (first time I've ever seen these!)
• Yellow Violets (Viola pubescens)
• Trout Lilies (Erythronium americanum)
• Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris)
• Swamp Buttercups (Ranunculus hispidus)
• False Rue Anemone (Enemion biternatum)
• Squirrel Corn (Dicentra canadensis)
• Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
• Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
• Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
• Common Trillium (Grandiflorum)
• Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica)

4/25 Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Serviceberry (Amelanchier)
• Lilacs
• Crabapple tree (Malus prunifolia)

4/22  KalHaven trail to F and 8th, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Common Trillium (grandiflorum)
• Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
• Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
• Squirrel Corn (Dicentra canadensis)
• False Rue-Anemone (Enemion biternatum)
• Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
• Canada Violets (Viola canadensis)
• Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba)
• Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica)
• Trout Lilies (Erythronium americanum)
• Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris)
• Common Violets (Viola sororia)
• Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divericata)
• Redbud tree

4/19  Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• more Bloodroots budded!

4/18  Kleinstuck Nature Preserve, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) budded

4/14  Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Bloodroot: 5
• Toadshade (Trillium sessile) plants

4/7  Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Toadshade (Trillium sessile) leaves are up
• Dutchman's Breeches (in galvanized tub)

4/7  Kalamazoo Nature Center, Maple Beech Trail, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Harbinger of Spring (Erigenia bulbosa)
• Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
• Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
• False Rue-Anemone (Enemion biternatum)
• Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
• Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba)
• Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica)
• Trout lily (Erythronium americanum)
• Common violets (Viola sororia)
• Canada violets (Viola canadensis)
• Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris)
• Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
• Scarlet elf cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea) fungi

4/1  KalHaven trail to F and 8th, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Scarlet elf cup (Sarcoscypha coccinea) fungi
• American Columbo (Frasera caroliniensis) - plant takes 3 years to flower - we saw the 1st year basal leaves and the 3rd year dead stalks
• Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
• Hepatica, sharp lobed (Hepatica acutiloba)
• Dutchmans breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)

3/23  Kleinstuck Nature Preserve, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) blooming

3/21  Source Pond Trail, Kalamazoo Nature Center, Kalamazoo Co., MI:

• Wild Leeks up

3/17 Bishop's Bog Preserve Trail, Portage, Kalamazoo Co., MI: 

• Purple Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia purpurea), although not blooming yet!