Weekly Wildflowers – Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME
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Ox-Eye Daisy
Ox-Eye Daisy Leucanthemum vulgare Other names: Common Daisy, Dog Daisy and Moon Daisy Family: Asteraceae Range: Native to Europe and the temperate regions of Asia and an introduced plant to North America, Australia and New Zealand. Native or Introduced: Introduced Native Habitat: Grows in a variety of plant communities including meadows and fields, under scrub
Yarrow
Yarrow Achillea millefolium Other names: Common Yarrow, plumajillo, gordaldo, nosebleed plant, old man’s pepper, devil’s nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier’s woundwort, thousand-leaf, thousand-seal, arrowroot, bad man’s plaything, bloodwort, carpenter’s weed, death flower, eerie, field hops, gearwe, hundred leaved grass, knight’s milefoil, knyghten, milefolium, millefoil, noble yarrow, old man’s mustard, seven year’s love, snake’s grass, soldier, stanchweed,
The Rest of Arizona
I’m very behind recapping the rest of the trip to AZ, so here’s the rest, in short order. That Monday, we headed down toward Tucson, and checked out Biosphere 2. It’s an incredibly interesting place to visit, and I have tons of pictures, but it really is one of those places that you’re better of
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The Desert Botanical Garden – Phoenix, AZ
The morning of my birthday (the 22nd), we headed over to the Desert Botanical Garden, which we’re able to access for free, because we’re members of our local botanical garden. (Definite perk of that membership.) It’s the late part of their wildflower season in April, though it apparently wasn’t a great wildflower year, because they
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