I hope you’ve had a chance to enjoy the trails a little more, now that the extreme heat is behind us! What has been blooming during the first half of August?
- Maryland senna
- Yellow passionflower
- Purpledisc sunflower
- Sensitive partridge pea
- Juniperleaf
- Water-pimpernel
- Bindweed
- False nettle
- Great blue lobelia
- Cardinal flower
- Eastern oxeye
- Carpetweed
- Jumpseed
- American beautyberry
- Ragweed
- The spore-bearing fronds of the netted-chain fern can be seen now
- Winged sumac bushes are beginning to put out berries
- The berries on the porcelain-berry vines are ripening
