Category: Plants

The spring beauties and sticky mouse-ears are starting to open! It’s going to be an unusually warm week this week. What do you think will come out next?

The first tiny bluets of the season were seen on the Shiloh Greenway today! You have to look closely, or you’ll miss them! This is what they look like when you’re just passing by. Can you see them? Here is a closer picture. One lonely field pansy was also spotted for the first time today.

It has been so hot lately! Some days I look at the plants along the trails and just want to give them some water. Many plants are struggling right now. Some plants love the heat, though. In the last few weeks the new plants I have seen are goldenrod, creeping water primrose, alternate-leaved seedbox, Drummond’s… Continue reading Field Report- July 11, 2024

In my last field report I was commenting on how dry and hot it had been. Now, we’re looking at the wettest July ever recorded! So what’s blooming on the trails now? I made sure to walk on each greenway over the last two weeks to get a full report. The large, yellow, daisy-like summer… Continue reading Field Report- July 29, 2024

What’s blooming on the trails this week? The crape myrtle, sourwood and mimosa trees are flowering. This year, I’ve noticed that the white crape myrtle flowers come out first, followed by the lavender flowers. I haven’t seen any trees with pink or red flowers yet. Does it always happen that way? For small plants, I… Continue reading Field Report- June 13, 2024

I have seen a few new flowers this week: bitterweed, spring ladies’-tresses, rough sunflower, poor-joe, smooth rose-mallow, and the pink crape myrtle trees. Both roundleaf and narrowleaf eupatorium are starting to form flowers. This was the first time I’ve seen the poor-joe plant. It’s always exciting to learn a new species! What plants are you… Continue reading Field Report- June 21, 2024

The violets, periwinkle, large yellow vetch, and mayberry are starting to bloom this week. The eastern redbuds are very close to blooming, keep watching for them!

Eastern redbud trees, mock strawberries and Carolina geraniums are starting to bloom this week.

Things are changing very quickly now that spring is here. Most of the pear and plum trees are done flowering. The cherry trees with white flowers and the crabapple trees are currently in full bloom. Wisteria is starting to bloom now. The blackberries and the different types of viburnum (like the rusty blackhaw pictured above)… Continue reading Field Report- March 26, 2024

It seems like every day there is something new blooming along the trails. Over the last two weeks, I have seen: orange jewelweed, rabbitfoot clover, asiatic dayflower, pokeweed, Carolina false dandelion, southern rockbell, black-eyed Susan, prickly pear cactus, silky dogwood, goldenmane tickseed, American persimmon, narrowleaf skullcap, butterfly milkweed, lizard’s-tail and leopard’s bane. I even saw… Continue reading Field Report- May 22, 2024