Saturday, April 25, 2009

Gleaning Facebook: Carol's Wildflowers

 Carol and Ron have a beautiful 90 acres with lots of pretty wildflowers. Thanks to Richard Ware for helping to identify some of these plants.

Delphinium tricorne (Dwarf Larkspur)

Delphinium tricorne (Dwarf Larkspur)


All Delphinium species are poisonous so don't put it on your salad.


I suspect this is a jack-less Arisaema triphyllum, (Jack-in-the-Pulpit)? 
 A tiny Toxicodendron radicans (Poison Ivy) is at the bottom of the photo.



Some critter deposited eggs here for Haley and me to find under a fossil-filled rock. An amphibian, maybe?

I will guess Diervilla sp. (Bush Honeysuckle)?

Richard Ware
Terrell, I believe this is an introduced weedy species, Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera mackii).

Terrell
I'm so sorry to discover this is an invasive. It hasn't yet overtaken Ron and Carol's property. Maybe they can eradicate it. Its flowers are pretty, but it can really crowd out everything else, judging from this: http://www.invasive.org/species/subject.cfm?sub=3040


Viola blanda, (Small White Violet)?
Richard Ware
If the flower stalks have no leaves you are probably correct, but if the stalk has leaves and flowers, it is probably Canada Violet (Viola canadensis).

This property is home to colony after colony of this pretty plant. Podophyllum peltatum, (Mayapple)




Richard Ware: This should be Great Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum appendiculatum).


Richard Ware: This should be Great Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum appendiculatum).

Richard: You're right Terrell, Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum).


Canada Violet (Viola canadensis)


Viola pubescens (Yellow Woodland Violet)?
Richard: 
Possibly, can't tell without seeing good leaf shot and whole plant.


Viola pubescens (Yellow Woodland Violet)?
Richard: 
I think you're correct!

Arisaema triphyllum, (Jack-in-the-Pulpit)

Arisaema triphyllum, (Jack-in-the-Pulpit)

Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum).

Wild Comfrey (Cynoglossum virginianum).

Christmas Fern

Rattlesnake Fern (Botrychium virginianum).

Viola blanda, (Small White Violet)?
Richard: 
If the flowering stalk has leaves on it, it is probably Canada Violet (Viola canadensis).


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