Time for the 2009 Spring/Summer Flower Thread

[TDawg]

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What do I have here?

Pic of a patch of them.

Correction: Bellwort.

 

[RickB.]

What do I have here?

Pic of a patch of them.

Bellwort, Lily family.

 

[TDawg]

Bellwort, Lily family.

Thank you. Rep!

 

[Jason Berard]

Jackpot!!

I went for a hike over the North peak of Moose Mountain today with a friend and boy oh boy did we hit the jackpot! It is not an exaggeration to say the this entire trail is covered with flowers. The spring beauties were so thick in places it looks like it had snowed!! The same with the trout lilies! I guess I was wrong with that timeline from last week..... We also saw white and yellow violets, hepatica, bellwort,trillium and blue cohosh as well as the first hobblebush in flower. If anyone is looking for a wildflower hike this weekend I would highly encourage a trip to N. Moose!

 

[cushetunk]

Dinner is served! They are more appetizing after the scales are removed...
Ostrich Fern, Ossipees, 4-28-09

Rick, are you sure you've got ostrich fern there? Ostrich fern usually has light brown scales that fall off or just remain near the base. Your picture looks a lot like a woodfern (Dryopteris sp.) -- which I wouldn't want to serve for dinner.

 

[RickB.]

Rick, are you sure you've got ostrich fern there? Ostrich fern usually has light brown scales that fall off or just remain near the base. Your picture looks a lot like a woodfern (Dryopteris sp.) -- which I wouldn't want to serve for dinner.

I think you're right.
FIXED!

 

[Jason Berard]

I saw a nice little bunch of Wood Anemone today....

It seems like this season has been compressed to me....the early hot weather perhaps?

 

[Jason Berard]

ON a local hike today I saw:
Jack-in-the-Pulpit

more violets

strawberries

early saxifrage

columbine

cool ferns

maple tree flower?

wood anemone

marsh marigold

and a painted turtle

Not bad for a short hike before work

 

[nartreb]

painted trillium

 

[RickB.]

I went for a hike over the North peak of Moose Mountain today with a friend and boy oh boy did we hit the jackpot! It is not an exaggeration to say the this entire trail is covered with flowers. The spring beauties were so thick in places it looks like it had snowed!! The same with the trout lilies! I guess I was wrong with that timeline from last week..... We also saw squirrel corn,white and yellow violets, hepatica, bellwort,trillium and blue cohosh as well as the first hobblebush in flower. If anyone is looking for a wildflower hike this weekend I would highly encourage a trip to N. Moose!

Great shots yesterday!
I finally got out to Moose Mountain and we saw the profusion of flowers, just as you described. Also saw Wild Leek and Dutchman'-breeches.

Dutchman's-breeches

More Spring Beauty

Sharp-lobed Hepatica

 

[nartreb]

Hobblebush

Hobblebush

red trillium

bluebead lily

Continued...

 

[nartreb]

Hobblebush

(edit: sessile bellwort)

spring beauty

one more red trillium

 

[RickB.]

twisted-stalk(?)

Appears to be Bellwort.

Nice shots!

 

[nartreb]

bellwort

yep, I think it's Uvularia sessilifolia, a.k.a sessile bellwort, a.k.a. wild oats, a.k.a. straw lily, a.k.a. merry bells.

 

[arghman]

darnit, see what I get for not logging into VFFT often.

I've been busy in undisclosed locations of the Merrimack Valley in southern NH....


Ranunculus fascicularis (early buttercup)


Taraxacum laevigatum (red-seeded dandelion; smaller + more incised leaves w/ reddish seeds), nonnative but not as aggressive as common dandelion


Cornus florida (flowering dogwood; yes, it is native to our area on warm, dry hillsides)


Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry), invasive. Pull this up if you see it. There were a lot of weird little insects flying around the flowers today. If anyone knows what that bluish butterfly/moth is, let me know.

 

[arghman]

p.s. a Friendly Reminder:

Please be careful about posting specific locations of plants, unless you're certain they are relatively common species. If it's something interesting and exciting, consider being more vague e.g. "Hanover, NH area" or "Western Maine". The problem isn't likely to be people on this site, but rather the fact that posts here show up on Google and other search engines, which in turn can be seen by unscrupulous people out there who may engage in plant theft or other unauthorized collection, especially for species like ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) or yellow lady's slippers (Cypripedium parviflorum).

If you are really getting into the study of wildflowers, it is worth taking a moment to find the list of rare species for your state and familiarize yourself with threatened or endangered species. (easiest way is to look up "natural heritage" and your state name/abbreviation) These organizations are thinly staffed even for our small New England states, and would certainly appreciate getting field data from amateur botanists who find rare plant species.

 

[Jason Berard]

Thanks arghman. That's an excellent reminder. I should check out the VT and NH lists. It would be nice to contribute data on rare plants.

 

[arghman]

Thalictrum thalictroides (rue anemone)


Crataegus sp. (hawthorn) -- that's as specific as I go. The one on the right may be a different species then the one on the left; I have no idea. There are an indeterminately large number of species in this genus, probably as many as the number of different languages in India (and with the same difficulties counting both those numbers). I have a few hawthorns on my property but they never bloom; these pictures were taken elsewhere in southern NH.

 

[nartreb]

re blue butterfly

If the tops of the wings were blue, it probably was a... Blue.

Subfamily Polyommatinae, family Lycaenidae (I can confirm the family from the photo)

 

[Jason Berard]

I found an interesting shrub today that I don't remember seeing before.

Leatherleaf: