Northern Hardwood-Conifer Swamp in bloom |
If you regularly read this blog, you will have noticed that I have given myself a goal of photographing as many species of wildflowers as I can this growing season. My rules for this self-imposed challenge:
- Any native or non-native plant (including trees) can be photographed if it meets two conditions
- It must be growing in a wild population - it cannot be in a location where it was planted.
- It must be growing in one of the parks or other city properties within the city of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
- I have to photograph the plant on the day I first find the flower - but I can photograph any flower of the species that I find on that day.
- I have to be able to identify the species for it to count - unknown specimens do not count.
Thursday 10 April 2014
#1 Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
Monday 14 April 2014
#2 Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis)
#3 Pussy Willow (Salix discolor)
Wednesday 16 April 2014
#4 Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides)
Monday 21 April 2014
#5 Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
#6 Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria)
#7 Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia)
Tuesday 22 April 2014
#8 Red Maple (Acer rubrum)
#9 Speckled Alder (Alnus rugosa)
Thursday 24 April 2014
#10 Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica)
Tuesday 29 April 2014
#11 Boxelder (Acer negundo)
#12 Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata)
#13 Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)
#14 Yellow Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)
Thursday 01 May 2014
#15 Field Penny-cress (Thlaspi arvense) NON-NATIVE
#16 Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)
#17 Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense)
#18 Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officianale) NON-NATIVE
Monday 05 May 2014
#19 Large-flowered Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)
#20 Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides)
#21 Squirrel Corn (Dicentra canadensis)
Tuesday 06 May 2014
#22 False Rue Anemone (Enemion biternatum)
#23 White Trout Lily (Erythronium albidinum)
Sunday 11 May 2014
#24 Wood Anemone (Anemone quinquefolia)
#25 Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
#26 Spring Cress (Cardamine bulbosa)
#27 American Dog Violet (Viola labradorica)
#28 Swamp Buttercup (Ranunculus hispidus)
#29 Downy Yellow Violet (Viola pubescens)
#30 Two-leaf Mitrewort (Mitella diphylla)
#31 Mouse-ear Chickweed (Cerastium fontanum) NON-NATIVE
#32 Woodland Strawberry (Fragaria vesca)
#33 Garlic Mustard (Alliara petiolata) NON-NATIVE (INVASIVE)
Nice work Mike! Keep it going...Lucy
ReplyDeleteThanks Lucy! Unless something happens, I should hit 100 species some time this week. Looking for flowers almost feels like work sometimes.
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