Weekly Wildflowers – Fels Grove Farm Preserve, Yarmouth, ME
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Weekly Wildflowers – Bay Bridge Landing Park, Brunswick, ME
Highest tide I’ve ever seen at this park. Naturally, this was the time I forgot to bring my water shoes.
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Weekly Wildflowers – Donnell Pond, Franklin, ME
I had to check the dates from my visit last year – it was just about exactly a year ago, but our late spring strikes again. I usually get the wintergreen in full bloom, and the marsh St. John’s wort was barely out at all, and should have also been in bloom as well.
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Weekly Wildflowers – Warren Woods Preserve, Scarborough, ME
I’m happy to report that it’s still fairly muddy at Warren Woods, so drought conditions remain low this year. I was a bit later than I usually am, so I missed the rose pogonais, but that was more than made up for by the lesser St. John’s wort and the sundews. Those were the best
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Weekly Wildflowers – Bijhouwer Forest Preserve, Phippsburg, ME
This preserve was an interesting find. It’s got one of the northernmost stands of mountain laurel in New England, which was the main reason we decided to stop by. But the geological features are just as interesting. There are a fair number of glacial erratics, but the coolest feature is the Hundred Foot Rock, which
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Orange King Devil
Orange King Devil Pilosella aurantiaca Other names: orange hawkweed, fox-and-cubs, tawny hawkweed, devil’s paintbrush, grim-the-collier Family: Asteraceae Further Classification (Asteraceae only) Range: Southern Canada and New England south to the mid-Atlantic states and west through the Great Lakes region to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Native: Introduced (Invasive) Native Habitat: Native to alpine regions of