Category: Plants

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!

It’s finally starting to feel like spring! It’s easy to see all of the flowering trees. The cherries are just about done with their blooms, but the plums, pears and magnolias are just approaching their peak. Do you have a forsythia bush in your yard? Their yellow blooms are out now. The eastern redbuds finally… Continue reading Field Report- March 13, 2025

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

Spring flowers are blooming everywhere you look! The white cherry blossoms and the eastern redbuds are at their peak. On the Hatcher Creek Greenway, look for dimpled trout lilies, spring beauties and rain lilies blooming in the woods. The violets, green and gold, wood sorrel, running five-fingers, and mock strawberries have started to come out.… Continue reading Field Report- March 24, 2025

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

Have you been distracted by the cicadas? Don’t forget to look at the plants! In the last week the new blooms I have seen are: narrow-leaf evening primrose, Carolina rose, Carolina horse-nettle, Queen Anne’s lace, musk thistle, winter vetch, lanceleaf coreopsis, daisy fleabane, southern magnolia, delphinium, yellow flag iris, slender blue iris, creeping lespedeza, hemp… Continue reading Field Report- May 8, 2024

What’s happening out on the trails right now? We’re still enjoying the colors of autumn. It seems like this year, the trees are changing a little bit at a time. Last year, everything seemed to change color all at once. So, while we’re not seeing magnificent splashes of color this year, we can at least… Continue reading Field Report- November 14, 2024