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dark hollow falls
May. 1st, 2004 04:59 pmtoday we saw and identified:
large-flowered trillium
wild ginger
jack-in-the-pulpit (!!!)
canada violet
garlic mustard
cutleaf toothwort
wood betony
and saw the requisite:
common violets: yellow (not so common!), blue ones and white ones (those are common-place)
dandelions
strawberries
bluets
plantainleaf pussytoes (ID'd those, just to doublecheck... second time i've seen them)
mosses and lichens that i don't bother identifying
and what might be a cress or mustard -or- a poppy or celandine, though it's supposedly too early for black mustard. it was pouring and i managed to forget the leaf and flower type by the time i got back to the car. honestly, i thought it was a mustard. what i remember (raab-like leaves, small yellow four-petaled flowers, 1-3', bitter smell, growing amidst garlic mustard) reminded me of black mustard, but it's two months early and isn't common in the SE US. of course, the area where we were was once heavily settled and there are a lot of naturalized wildflowers which were once garden plants. the flowers were nearly identify to the garlic mustard flowers, but were all yellow instead of white. the leaves and smell were different.
there was asomething white and bell-like that i don't remember enough about to identify. it's also possible that it's not normally bell-like, but the flowers were actually closed for the rain showers.
large-flowered trillium
wild ginger
jack-in-the-pulpit (!!!)
canada violet
garlic mustard
cutleaf toothwort
wood betony
and saw the requisite:
common violets: yellow (not so common!), blue ones and white ones (those are common-place)
dandelions
strawberries
bluets
plantainleaf pussytoes (ID'd those, just to doublecheck... second time i've seen them)
mosses and lichens that i don't bother identifying
and what might be a cress or mustard -or- a poppy or celandine, though it's supposedly too early for black mustard. it was pouring and i managed to forget the leaf and flower type by the time i got back to the car. honestly, i thought it was a mustard. what i remember (raab-like leaves, small yellow four-petaled flowers, 1-3', bitter smell, growing amidst garlic mustard) reminded me of black mustard, but it's two months early and isn't common in the SE US. of course, the area where we were was once heavily settled and there are a lot of naturalized wildflowers which were once garden plants. the flowers were nearly identify to the garlic mustard flowers, but were all yellow instead of white. the leaves and smell were different.
there was asomething white and bell-like that i don't remember enough about to identify. it's also possible that it's not normally bell-like, but the flowers were actually closed for the rain showers.
