10/20-23 Walnut Creek Preserve, Mill Spring, Polk Co., NC:
- NC Extension plant toolbox
- Sourwood trees (Oxydendrum arboreum) - brilliant red leaves!
- Kidney-leaf Rosinweed (Silphium compositum) - huge leaves with red ribs, not flowering
- Dog Fennel (Eupatorium capillifolium) - feathery, like garden fennel
- Running Cedar (Lycopodium digitatum) - nonflowering club moss, like tiny cedar leaves, with an upright cone-like shoot that produces spores
- Bushy or Rice Button Asters (Symphyotrichum dumosum) - tiny flowers, like pale blue/lavender Daisy Fleabane
- Heath Aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides) - tiny flowers, like pale blue/lavender Daisy Fleabane - or were these Rice Button Asters?
- Forest or Thin-leaved Sunflowers (Helianthus decapetalus) - 3-5' tall, light green stems, 3" flowers with yellow centers
- Appalachian or Purpledisk Sunflower (Helianthus atrorubens) - 3-5' tall, red stems, 2-3" brownish-purple centers, opposite leaves at the bottom of the stems
- Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa) - 2-4' tall, red stems, 1-3" yellow sunflower-like flowers with yellow centers
- Maryland Golden-Aster (Chrysopsis mariana) - 1' tall, with 1-3" yellow centers
- Pennsylvania Smartweed (Persicaria pensylvanica) - 1" to 2" tiny pink-red flowers
- Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
- Sweet Everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium)
9/1 Kal-Haven Trail (near trailhead), Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Large-leaved Aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
8/25 Canmore & Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada:
- Fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium)
- Red Paintbrush (Castilleja miniata)
- Showy Aster (Aster conspicuus)
- Bog Violet (Viola nephrophylla)
- Bunchberry / Dwarf Dogwood (Cornus canadensis)
- Fringed Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia fimbriata) - leaves resembled violet leaves
- Labrador Tea (Ledum groenlandicum)
- Meadow Death Camas (Toxicoscordion venenosum)
- Western Canada Violet (Viola canadensis)
- Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris)
- Alpine Goldenrod (Solidago multiradiata)
- Shrubby Cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
- Yellow Avens (Geum aleppicum) - seed heads! Flowers look like buttercups & cinquefoils
- Groundsel (Senecio) - don't know which
- Soopolallie / Canadian Buffaloberry (Sheoherdia canadensis) - red & orange berries
7/8 Home, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
On the Common Milkweed flowers:
- Variable Dancer Damselflies (golden females with brown spots near the segment lines) (Argia fumipennis), like this image
- Monarch !
6/12 Asylum Lake Preserve, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- White False Indigo (Baptisia lactea)
- Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- Blackberries (Rubus allegheniensis)
5/19 Kal-Haven Trail (trailhead to F and 8th), Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Great Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum appendiculatum) - there are some in the "raised" bed in the backyard: transplant
- Great Waterleaf and Canada (white) Violets grow well under maples; Canada Violets turn pinkish after being fertilized, like Trillium!
- Go to West Lake: on the boardwalk at the back, go past the chain to the "closed" section and look down into the plant foliage for Lady Slippers! Wear boots - it'll be wet.
- Golden Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus citrinopileatus) in 2 places
- American Cancer-root or Bear Corn (Conopholis americana)
5/12 Kal-Haven Trail (trailhead to F and 8th), Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum)
- Starry False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
- Aniseroot or Sweet Cicely (Osmorhiza longistylis)
5/4 Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
- Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
5/4 Kalamazoo Nature Center, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Wild Geranium (maculatum)
- Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
- Large-flowered Trillium (grandiflorum)
- False Rue Anemone (Enemion biternatum)
- Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)
- Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris)
- Swamp Buttercup (Ranunculus hispidus)
- Golden Ragwort (Packera aurea)
- Downy Violets (Viola pubescens)
- Canada violets (Viola canadensis)
- Common violets (Viola sororia)
- Blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia verna)
4/22 Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
- Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
- Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virg.)
- Wood Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum)
- Tall Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum)
- (Lilacs!)
4/21 Kal-Haven Trail (trailhead to F and 8th), Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
- Wild Geranium (maculatum)
- Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
- Early Meadow Rue (Thalictrum dioicum) - fringed flowers
- Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) - starry yellow-green flowers
- Large-flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora)
- Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
- Squirrel Corn (Dicentra canadensis)
- Common violets (Viola sororia)
- Canada violets (Viola canadensis)
- Downy Violets (Viola pubescens)
- Celandine Wood Poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum)
- Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris)
- Large-flowered Trillium (grandiflorum)
- Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
- Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
- False Rue Anemone (Enemion biternatum)
- Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica)
4/17 Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Serviceberry tree
- Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris) in backyard tub
- Large-flowered Trillium (grandiflorum) in SE corner of backyard
- Virginia Bluebell buds in SE corner of backyard
4/14 Kal-Haven Trail (trailhead to F and 8th), Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Common violets (Viola sororia)
- Canada violets (Viola canadensis)
- Downy Violets (Viola pubescens)
- Celandine Wood Poppies (Stylophorum diphyllum)
- Marsh Marigolds (Caltha palustris)
- Hepatica
- Large-flowered Trillium (grandiflorum)
- Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
- Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
- False Rue Anemones (Enemion biternatum)
- Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica)
- Spring Cress (Cardamine douglassii)
4/13 Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Trout Lilies (Erythronium americanum)
4/7 Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) (SE corner of backyard, near border)
3/31 Home, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
- Sharp-lobed Hepatica (acutiloba) - white
- Common violets (Viola sororia)
- Canada violets (Viola canadensis) - white
3/22 Kleinstuck Nature Preserve, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co., MI:
- Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) blooming
