Category: Plants

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

Isn’t it amazing how much can change in just a few weeks? Here is a partial list of plants that are now in bloom in the last half of March: The wooden bridge portion of the Hatcher Creek Greenway is filled with spring beauties and rain lilies right now. You can see jack-in-the-pulpits and may-apples… Continue reading Field Report- March 31, 2026

The flowers are really starting to bloom now! These are the new flowers that I have seen in the last few days: It seems like every day there is a new plant in bloom. What are you seeing?

What’s blooming on the trails in early May? The fruit on the dewberries and mulberries are beginning to ripen.

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… Continue reading Field Report- May 11, 2026

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