What has been blooming on the trails during the first half of May?
Carolina rose, irises, Small’s ragwort, ox-eye daisy, southern magnolia, American persimmon, fleabanes, elderberry, partridge berry, sundrops, Queen Anne’s lace, Himalayan blackberry, heartleaf pickerelweed, beardtongue, false Solomon’s seal, grapes, wild quinine, strawberry bush and poison ivy.
I feel like there’s an overwhelming amount of poison ivy this year. Maybe I’m just getting better at identifying it, but I feel like it is everywhere right now.
What are you seeing on the trails?