by admin | May 12, 2018 | Wild flowers
Creeping buttercup (ranunculus repens) is very common, but very pretty. It spreads rapidly using horizontal stems (stolons) such that a single plant can grow into a five foot square patch in a single year – choking out other plants as it spreads. Like most...
by admin | Apr 15, 2018 | Plants, Wild flowers
Now this is a weird one. You are not looking at a flower. Rather it is a nest or a house! A tiny wasp laid its eggs in a twig of a white oak tree. Chemicals which were injected with the eggs caused the oak tree to grow everything you see in the fluffy sphere. So, what...
by admin | Apr 10, 2018 | Wild flowers
This beautiful flower hides itself. From the top you only see three pointed, green leaves. The flower is on a short stem which curves over so that the flower hangs underneath the leaves. Hence the name nodding trillium (Trillium Cernuum). Short-lived excitement In...
by admin | Apr 7, 2018 | Wild flowers
Bluets (houstonia**) come in many colors. Simple, crisp flowers which look so perfect when they pop up in a wild setting. It would be obvious to say “they have four petals”. But that would be an error. The four colored parts are, in fact, sepals. It that...
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