What’s blooming on the trails in early July?
In the wet areas, you can find buttonbush, water-hemlock, swamp rose-mallow, smooth rose-mallow, cattails, arrowheads, creeping water primrose and climbing hempvine.
In the open fields, you can see pineywoods goldenrod, alternate-leaved seedbox, rough sunflower, swamp sunflower, winged sumac, poor-joe, roundleaf eupatorium, slender mountain-mint, rattlesnake master, bitterweed, common partridge pea, American burnweed, and New York ironweed. The St. John’s-worts (Hypericum) flowers are out, too. Look for reclining St. Andrew’s cross, dwarf, spotted, shrubby, Drummond’s and piedmont St. John’s-worts.
In the shade, you can find winged monkey flowers, Carolina wild petunia, and Virginia dayflower.
What flowers are you seeing right now?