Time for the 2009 Spring/Summer Flower Thread

[Jason Berard]

Ahhh. cool! I remember seeing sheep laurel on Black Mt. last year. Its beautiful in bloom! As you can tell, I'm bad at identification without flowers in bloom. I'm not used to seeing wintergreen with berries.... so if I had taken a leaf and crushed it, I would have known....it sure does look like wintergreen!

thanks!

 

[RickB.]

Yesterday, 6-8-09, on a Zealand/Bonds traverse, lots of the usual beauties in bloom. But, of note, the Rhodora around the Zeacliff outlook was stunning and the Diapensia on Bondcliff, while not as thick as in the Presidentials, was in full bloom and complemented the angular granite backdrop. Couple of photos from my point-and-shoot:

Rhodora at Zeacliff outlook

Diapensia on Bondcliff summit

 

[Jason Berard]

A couple pictures from recent walks in the woods:

Showy Lady's Slipper

one more:

what's this?

Northern Bog Orchid

red eft:

Indian Pipe:

false beech drops?

 

[nartreb]

Last photo must be Monotropa hypopythis.

I'm fairly surprised the C. reginae is still in bloom, how far north were you?

 

[Jason Berard]

Are Pinesap, and False Beech Drops the same thing?

The Showy Lady's Slippers were in a big colony in a small fen, not far from my house in Thetford, VT. 90% of them were gone by. I wish I had seen them when they were all in bloom. Next year.

 

[nartreb]

Are Pinesap, and False Beech Drops the same thing?

Yes, according to Google. Also "Yellow Bird's-Nest". All new to me.

BTW, true beech-drops

 

[audrey]

Eupatorium maculatum (spotted Joe-Pye weed), I think.

 

[arghman]

Eupatorium maculatum (spotted Joe-Pye weed), I think.

sounds right, definitely a Eupatorium anyway.

 

[Kevin Judy and Emma]

Great stuff this year!

Sorry I'm so late to the party this year. I want to thank everyone for their excellent contributions! Some beautiful stuff!

Spotted these at Kingston State Park last night. With all the rain it should be a good year for them, and ducks.

KDT

 

[Jason Berard]

I was up on French's Ledges today with the kids and saw Shinleaf, Partridgeberry, Pipsissewa(my first time seeing this , and our first ripe blueberries of the season!

We also saw Birdsfoot Trefoil, Bullhead Lillies, Indian Pipes, and more False Beech Drops.

On Gile Mtn. a few days ago, we saw Slender Blue-eyed Grass as well.

 

[audrey]

Let me add some bog flowers to the mix. Note the spider eating a fly in the mountain laurel flower. Sometimes you get lucky (not the fly).

http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/573373994Csiwrw

 

[Jason Berard]

Beautiful pics! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Darl58]

Swiss Alps flowers.....

I just returned from three weeks in the Alps hiking and have lots of wildflower pics....

Haven't titled them all yet, but will work on that... tried to figure some of them out...any help would be cool!

Enjoy!!

http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink

 

[arghman]

Enjoy!!

!!!!!!!!!

you seriously need a local field guide, I think. Here's some narrowing-down to genus or at least family (ends in -aceae below)

http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356572378022036658 -> Asteraceae (not much help...)
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356570602631932594 -> Euphorbia
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356572304689373186 -> Fabaceae which doesn't help much, maybe Oxytropis or Astragalus or Glycyrrhiza; Oxytropis has a sharp keel (the literal translation of oxytropis), but that's something I can never see from the pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356572440048515106 -> almost definitely a Hypericum
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356572416387266690 -> Hibiscus or something else in the Malvaceae
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356572171202393986 -> Caryophyllaceae, probably a Minuartia or Arenaria
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356572290528933250 -> Galium of some sort, you probably don't have enough detail to discern species unless the habitat (alpine) can help narrow it down.
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps#5356572267261760194 -> Apiaceae, you probably need the leaves to ID
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps#5356570618751581618 -> Veronica
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps#5356570854609657906 -> Myosotis (or other closely related Boraginaceae)
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps#5356572317385908978 -> Asteraceae (not much help... it looks vaguely similar to this Parthenium hispidum

I saw in Missouri, so that may help you start a search.)

 

[Darl58]

!!!!!!!!!

you seriously need a local field guide, I think. Here's some narrowing-down to genus or at least family (ends in -aceae below)

I have a local field guide but it's only a small one and doesn't have them all in it....

 

[audrey]

Beautiful flowers, Darlene! You ought to be able to find lots of websites that show the flowers of a region. That's what I do when I'm researching my pictures from the western US. My books are never enough.

Jason's a great source of information: he's helped me figure out some of my more obscure finds.

Here's one en francais. The botanical names are what count anyway.

http://www.florealpes.com/index.php

 

[arghman]

Here's one en francais. The botanical names are what count anyway.

http://www.florealpes.com/index.php

ah -- good idea. Cherchez la webbe...

http://www.botany.ch/alps.htm

that seems to be a decent resource, e.g:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hikerdd13/FlowersOfTheAlps?feat=directlink#5356570696249635138 -> Sempervivum montanum

 

[Darl58]

Wow thanks for the help...I'll check those out when I get a chance...

So mnay different flowers....I still didn't get them all that I saw..

 

[HuiYeng]

I saw these pretty little flowers along Narragansett Bay.

 

[arghman]

I saw these pretty little flowers along Narragansett Bay.

Anagallis arvensis (scarlet pimpernel), probably Daucus carota (wild carrot = Queen Anne's lace), and Achillea millefolia (yarrow), respectively. Unfortunately all are non-native. I've never seen Anagallis arvensis in person, so that's a neat photo for me to see.