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What wildflowers are blooming now in your area?
Jack-in-the-pulpit: the deer ate it last night
sorry, garyon, but I had to laugh. Figures, doesn't it?
Lots of lovely activity out there!
I went to a local park and saw some blood root, though most had faded. I saw 1 trillium bud. Both a first in person for me :)
Not flowering, but I spotted a rare native plant, wild onion (or wild garlic). We found two patches of it growing. w00t!!! One was clear of invasives, though the other had some celandine near it so we plan to go back to remove as much as we can in that one area (it is manageable there, though in heavily disturbed parts of park the celandine is everywhere!).
Jack in the Pulpit
Camassia
Texas Mountain Laurel, a slow, slow growing tree. But I love it.
Jack-in the-pulpit
Redbud
my last two posts did not go through: yellow trillium and forget-me-not.
This isn't strictly native - I planted it - but it is native to higher elevations not far from here. It is Mahonia repans, we call it Oregon grape (I've wondered what they call it in Oregon).
This one is a native. It is in the Parsley family, I think it might be Lomantium. It isn't very showy, but it is interesting - and very early. The seedpods are interesting, too - but I always seem to miss photographing them.
Cool thread! Great pictures!
Here's Nun's Hood Orchids.
Let's see if this works - my last items did not post.
forget-me-not
garyon asked if I was serious about the wild onion/garlic (allium canadense) being rare. It is a protected species in Vermont (see below). Hopefully some day I'll get a hold of some from out-of-state and plant it in my back, where, keeping fingers crossed, it'll spread down the steep bank and into the woods :)
According to the State's documentation it is considered widespread in its range, but in Vermont it is given the rank of 1:
1 - Very rare (Critically imperiled): At very high risk of extinction or extirpation due to extreme rarity (often 5 or fewer populations or occurrences), very steep declines, or other factors
with a status of T:
T = Threatened: with high possibility of becoming endangered in the near future (and means it is protected by law)
Source: http://www.vtfishandwildlife.com/library/Reports_and_Documents/NonGame_and_Natural_Heritage/Rare_Threatened_and_Endangered_Species%20%20---%20lists/Rare_and_Uncommon_Vascular_Plant_%20of_Vermont.pdf
What is the best site to visit to get a positive identification? I can send pictures, too.
Grayson
What do you want ID'd?
Allium canadense: picture in this forum looks very much like what grows near me. We have called it wild onion/garlic. I could send some to evie_beevie if it's the correct plant.
Hi Garyon!
Evie_beevie's link comes up blank on my dial-up. However I do have descriptions of Allium canadense, American Meadow Garlic.
If you can show close-up photos of the plant, I may be able to ID it.
One detail about the plant is that the bulb's outer coats are fibrous reticulated, making it look like the bulb has a mesh covering.
All details about the plant are important for ID. Bulbs, leaves, flowers, and fruit.
Aloha, Dave
Around here, wild onion is one thing, and (exotic) wild garlic is another, A. vineale. But yeah, plenty of the canadense. It looks like there are several vars, though? I have some vague recollection that some taxonomist somewhere was changing some of them? Is there one in particular that VT is lacking?
Both size plants are found growing together. The small ones might be first year's growth from the cluster of small bulbs at the top of each stem.
Wild garlic/onion colony
Solomon's seal is in bloom: seems early for everything.
About 50 species of Allium occur in the US.
Can you show a fibrous reticulated bulb for any of the plants? Can you show flowers? Can you show fruit?
I wanted to show my wild Kentucky Azaleas. So far the pink is blooming great and the red/orange is just starting. I have one more that came from a start under a yellow one. It's flower bud is huge.
George
The pink one is just down from the red/orange one.
George, the wild Ky. Azalea is pretty. Is it evergreen or deciduous type of plant?
Thistles are blooming now. There seem to be two variety this season. Milk Thistles?
Lily, they are deciduous. I love looking for them in the spring. They interbred and you can get some really cool colors. Those I rescued from a landslide and a building site. I saw the mother plant of the pink sliding down the hill from the heavy rain and I ran and got my shovel and waded the creek(stupid of me) to get the pink. I replanted the mother and kept the babies. I have about 4 babies, but this one was bigger.
We also have a wild lily. red and yellow and the flower faces down. I saved some of those from building site also. They bloomed last year, but we bought a new house and I moved them again. They are coming up, but may not bloom.
I love native plants. I have a fairly formal entrance/front of house landscaping, but I stick wild flowers under everything out there. Trillium, wild ginger, blood root, violets of every color and every fern I can find.
George
lol - Daylilydaddy to the rescue!
My new goldenball lead tree started blooming. I can't get any sort of picture in the breeze, but it is pretty cool looking. I'm thinking about doing the front walk all in space alien plants...
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/62589/
Dame's Rocket over Snow on the Mountain (also known as Bishop's Weed).
Herb Robert (Geranium)
Vaccinium reticulatum of Hawai'i.
Korthalsella latissima, Hawaiian Mistletoe.
Showy Orchis, Orchis spectabilis seen today in Thompson Wildlife Management Area near Front Royal, VA
Metrosideros: I don't know anything about Hawaiian plants. Is the Vaccinium edible? Is the mistletoe a piece that broke off a tree or something, and landed on the ground? It reminds me of Christmas cactus.
Hi Pollengarden!
Yes the Vaccinium is edible, it is also known as the Hawaiian Blueberry. It comes in yellow, orange, red, pink, and purple colors in varying degrees of sweetness.
The Mistletoe (Korthalsella) does grow up in trees and is rarely visible on the ground. I found the above specimen on the ground after a storm, during a botanical survey.
Here is Vaccinium calycinum, it is edible but astringent, and traditionally used to treat dysentery.
Can someone id this plant. I got a cutting at the NPSOT symposium in Wichita Falls.
Another cutting taken during the propagation workshop at the NPSOT symposium that I do not know its name.
This is still small, but just today I found a native orchid Liparis lilifolia growing in our roadside ditch. Not a great pic as it is only about 3" high.
A pure white Calypso bulbosa, the only one found when we rescued hundreds of Claypso from a logging site last week. They have just about finished blooming for the year.
No wonder why I love these flowers; wild thistles, here is a whole field of them. DH and I went to look at Bald Eagle Nest this afternoon. In the area this is the view that we found, along the pair of Eagles.
