Wildflowers 2021

June 8, Bear Loop trail, Ingalls Field Airport, Bath County, VA

Flame Azaleas

Rhododendrun

Mountain Laurel

 

May 31, Millboro Springs, Bath County, VA

Swordleaf Phlox (rare!)

Bowman's Root

 

May 9, 2021, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

Wood Anemone

Dogwoods

Paw Paw trees

May 2, 2021, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

False Lily of the Valley

Dwarf Gingseng

Starry False Solomon's Seal

Trilliums

False Rue Anemone

Squirrel Corn

Dutchman's Breeches

Sweet White Violets

Spring Beauties

Wild Geraniums

Virginia Bluebells

Wild Phlox

Blue Cohosh

Jacks in the Pulpit

Wild Ginger

Buttercups

Downy Violets

Wood Betony

Large-flowered Bellwort

Trout Lily

April 28, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

Trilliums

False Rue Anemone

Squirrel Corn

Dutchman's Breeches

Virginia Bluebells

Wild Phlox

Blue Cohosh

Jacks in the Pulpit

Wild Ginger

Buttercups

Downy Violets

Wood Betony

Large-flowered Bellwort (just beginning)

April 11, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

Redbud trees

Trout Lilies

Myrtle (non-native)

Budded: Mayapples, Early Meadow Rue

April 8, home & Blandford Nature Center, Walker, MI

Cut-leaved Toothwort

April 4, Aman Park, Ottawa Co., MI

Spring Cress

Hepatica

Spring Beauties

Bloodroot

False Rue Anemone

Dutchman's Breeches

Trillium budded but not open yet

March 24, Blandford Nature Center (West Meadow), Walker, MI
common violets

March 22, Blandford Nature Center, Grand Rapids, MI
wild leeks up, pussy willows

Wildflowers 2020

August 27-28, Home and Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Home: Pale beauty moths on chimney: Campaea perlata

BNC: Giant ragweed (awful invasive), Goldenrod, Jewelweed, all kinds of berries

July 14, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.
Bee Balm
Wild Leeks blooming (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Allium_tricoccum#/media/File:Allium_tricoccum_-_Ramps.jpg )
Wild Grapes fruiting
Black Swallowtail butterflies
Dragonflies: Ebony Jewelwing; Widow Skimmer

June 30, home and Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.
Tickseed
Common Milkweed 
Blanket Flower
St. John's Wort (non-native)
Jewelweed
Chicory (non-native)

June 28, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Swamp Milkweed

Butterfly Weed

Black-eyed Susans

June 17, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Evening Primrose

June 16, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Alfalfa (non-native)

Daisies

Daisy Fleabane

Dame's Rocket / Money Plant (invasive)

Goat's Beard (Tragopogon, non-native)

Rugosa Rose (invasive, but gorgeous aroma)

Yarrow / Milfoil

White Campion (non-native)

June 15, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Penstemon: Beard-Tongue (not sure which kind), at west edge of fenced farm field

May 16, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.
Wild Geraniums

May 6, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.
Marsh Marigolds

May 3, Aman Park, Ottawa Co.
Trilliums
Yellow violets
Large-flowered Bellwort
Buttercups
Jacks-in-the-Pulpit
Blue Cohosh
 
May 1, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

Winter Cress (non-native, Burbarea vulgaris, aka Yellow rocket, mustard family Brassicaceae) https://virginiawildflowers.org/2015/05/09/yellow-rocket/ 

April 25, Aman Park, Ottawa Co.
white:

• Bloodroot
• Dutchman's Breeches
• Cut-leaved Toothworts
• False Rue Anemone
• Trillium

pink/purple:

• Hepatica
• Spring Beauties
• Pink Spring Cress (Cardamine douglassii)

greenish:

• Blue Cohosh

blue:

• Virginia Bluebells budded

yellow:

• Trout Lilies
• Buttercup (1 only)

reddish:

• Wild Ginger budded

April 19, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

• Spring Beauties
• Cut-leaved Toothworts
• False Rue Anemone
• Marsh Marigolds

A ton of turtles on logs in and around the pond at the corner of Hillburn Ave NW and Trail St. NW

April 13, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

• Bloodroots!
• Spring Beauties
• Skunk cabbage and Mayapples leafed out
• Blue Cohosh, Dutchman's Breeches, Trillium, Trout Lilies, and Winter Cress (non-native) budded

April 12, Millennium Park, Kent Co.

• Spring Beauty
• Pussy willows
• Myrtle (non-native, invasive)

April 8, Walker, Kent Co. (home)

• Cut-leaved Toothwort blooming (volunteers)
• Violets - Common purple, Canada white, lavender

April 5, Blandford Nature Center, Kent Co.

• Wild leeks everywhere!
• Cut-leaved Toothwort budded

March 29, Aman Park, Ottawa Co.
Hepatica!

Wildflowers 2018

6/10/18 Blandford Nature Center:
White: Blackberries, Daisies, Yarrow
Yellow: Cinquefoil - but is it native Potentilla gracilis (Slender) or the invasive recta (Sulfur)? Good description and images at https://cascadiaprairieoak.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Sulphur-Cinquefoil-Identification.pdf
non-natives: Multiflora rose (invasive!), Goatsbeard

5/23/18 Aman Park:
White Baneberry
Red Baneberry
Trillium (dying)
Mayapples
Canada Violets
False Rue Anemone

Wild Ginger

Wild Geranium

Wild Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)
Virginia Bluebells

Buttercups
Winter Cress (non-native, Burbarea vulgaris, aka Yellow rocket, mustard family Brassicaceae) https://virginiawildflowers.org/2015/05/09/yellow-rocket/


5/15/18  Blandford Nature Center:
wild strawberries
Mayapples
Jacks in the Pulpit

5/7/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Downy yellow violets

5/5/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Wild Geranium

5/2/18  Blandford Nature Center:
Blue Cohosh
False Rue Anemones
Wild Leeks
Marsh Marigolds
Mayapples budded
Canada Violet (white)

garter snake

5/1/18 Aman Park:
Bloodroots
Cut-leaved Toothwort
Dutchman's Breeches
Wood Anemone
Hepatica (so blue this year!)
Spring Beauties
Pink Spring Cress (Cardamine douglassii)
Trillium
Trout Lilies
Common Violets

non-natives:
Leafy Spurge
Myrtle


4/22/18
Blandford Nature Center: violets, 1st dandelion

3/2/18
While not wildflowers, the Snowdrops are blooming!

Wildflowers 2017

6/20/17 in Blandford and on drive to work
Vetch, peas, yarrow, yellow cinquefoil, black medic, chicory

6/6/17 in Blandford
White: Bladderwort campion, blackberries, ox-eye daisies, daisy fleabane, clover
Yellow:  Goat's beard
Pink/purple: Dame's rocket

5/14/17 in Kalamazoo Nature Center
White: Mayflowers, Baneberry, Squirrel corn, Trillium, Canada white violets
Yellow: Golden Ragwort, Buttercups, Golden Alexanders, Winter cress, Yellow violets
Pink/purple: Redbud, Wild Geranium, Violets (common)
Red: Columbine
Blue: Phlox
Green: Jack-in-the-Pulpit

5/12/17 and 5/14 in Blandford
Yellow: Winter cress (non-native), Indian strawberry, buttercups
White: honeysuckle, wild strawberry
Purple: ground ivy (Creeping Charlie)

5/7/17 in Aman Park
White: Squirrel corn, False rue anemone, Trillium, Canada white violets
Yellow: Large-flowered Bellwort, Yellow violets
Pink/purple: Phlox, Redbud, Wild Geranium, Spring beauties, Violets (common)
Blue: VA bluebells
Green: Blue cohosh, Jack-in-the-Pulpit
Maroon: Wild ginger

4/22/17 - 5/5/17 in Houston
Cloudless giant sulphur butterfly

4/17 in Aman Park
White: bloodroot, Dutchman's britches, spring cress, false rue anemone, cut-leaved toothwort, hepatica, trillium, Canada white violets
Yellow: trout lilies, dandelions
Pink/purple: spring beauties, violets (common)
Blue: VA bluebells are budded
Green: ramps, blue cohosh budded
Maroon: wild ginger budded


4/10: hepatica, spring cress, spring beauties, anemone, ramps in the North Ravines, GVSU
4/5:   both purple and white violets in Blandford.
3/24: 1st hepaticas blooming in Aman Park.

Wildflowers

6/2/16, Blandford Nature Center:
White: Campion, blackberries
Yellow: Goat's beard

5/20/16, Aman Park:
White:  Mayapple,s False Solomon's Seal, False Lily-of-the-Valley, Wild Strawberries
Yellow:  Golden Alexanders
Red: Columbine
Pink/white: Honeysuckle

5/17/16,  Blandford Nature Center:
Pink/purple: Dame's Rocket

5/8/16, Blandford Nature Center:
Blue: phlox
Green: Jack-in-the-Pulpits
Yellow:  Marsh Marigolds, Winter Cress, Buttercups, Downy yellow violets
White:  Trillium, Squirrel corn, Canada white violets, False Rue Anemone
Pink/purple: wild geraniums, spring beauties, violets

brown - Garter snake!

5/5/16, Aman Park:
White: Canada white violets, squirrel corn
Pink/purple: wild geranium

4/29/16, Blandford Nature Center:
Pink/purple: wild geraniums

4/27/16, Blandford Nature Center:
Yellow: winter cress and downy yellow violets

4/22/16, at Aman Park, I saw: myrtle (not a wildflower), redbud trees blooming, and:

White: bloodroot, trillium, Dutchman's breeches, cut-leaved toothwort, false rue anemone
Yellow: dandelion, trout lilies, buttercups, large-flowered bellwort
Pink/purple: spring beauties, spring cress, violets
Green: blue cohosh
Maroon: wild ginger

I was sorry to have missed the hepatica blooming.

Birds & Wildflowers

Yesterday I was only a few steps into Aman Park when I realized I was surrounded by warblers. Here's the certain list:

• Yellow-rumped "Myrtle"
• Pine
• Nashville 
• Black-throated Green. 

I'm not sure if I was seeing

• Black and White Warblers or Blackpolls; 
• Black-throated Blues or Ceruleans. 

Without my books or binoculars, it was hard to tell.
Other birds: mockingbird, titmice (one followed me around), nuthatches (white-breasted), downy woodpeckers, red-breasted woodpeckers, robins, thrushes singing (never know if they're wood or hermit), chickadees. There are now black squirrels in the park.

Newly blooming wildflowers: Jack-in-the-Pulpits, Large-flowered bellwort.

March 25 Wildflowers

The warm weather has brought an abundance of wildflowers to early bloom. We spotted the following in Aman Park yesterday:

• bloodroot
• cut-leaved toothwort
  
• Dutchman's breeches
• early meadow rue
• false rue anemone
  
• hepatica
• myrtle (Periwinkle)
  
• spring beauties
• spring cress
• trillium
• trout lilies
• downy yellow violets