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Dutchman's Breeches, Dicentra cucullaria

Weekly Wildflowers – Acton Arboretum, Acton, MA

Leave a Comment / Disturbed Habitat, New England, Wayside Flowers, Woodland / Megan

This is a bit of a cheat entry – there’s a carefully tended section of the woods that has wild flowers. Some are natives, some are natives of the area but were added here, and some are natives of neighboring regions, but are not native here. I actually came here because I knew they had […]

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Virginia Meadow Beauty, Rhexia virginica

Weekly Wildflowers – Ashumet Holly Sanctuary, East Falmouth, MA

Leave a Comment / Aquatic, Disturbed Habitat, Wayside Flowers, Wetland, Woodland / Megan

Actual picture date 8/2/25.

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Three-Toothed-Cinquefoil, Sibbaldiopsis tridentata

Weekly Wildflowers – Two Lights State Park, Cape Elizabeth, ME

Leave a Comment / Disturbed Habitat, Ledges, Seashore, Wayside Flowers, Wetland, Woodland / Megan

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English Stonecrop, Sedum anglicum

Scotland Wildflowers – Eilean Donan Castle and the Isle of Skye

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Common Poppy, Papaver rhoeas

Scotland Wildflowers – Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

Leave a Comment / Travel / Megan

This is admittedly a very random place to be for an out of town visitor, but our friend works here, and knew about a trail that she knew would have wildflowers. (Isn’t it grand to have friends that look out for your interests?) And it’s the perfect distance away from the airport to be a

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Common Chokecherry, Prunus virginiana

Weekly Wildflowers – Merck Forest and Farmland Center, Rupert, VT

Leave a Comment / Disturbed Habitat, Wayside Flowers, Woodland / Megan

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Wood Lily, Lilium philadelphicum

Weekly Wildflowers – Kennebunk Plains Preserve, Kennebunk, ME

Leave a Comment / Disturbed Habitat, Meadow, Wayside Flowers, Woodland / Megan

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Northern Wood Sorrel, Oxalis montana

Weekly Wildflowers – Wolfes Neck Woods State Park, Freeport, ME

Leave a Comment / Wayside Flowers, Woodland / Megan

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Heartleaf Foamflower, Tiarella cordifolia

Weekly Wildflowers – Mile Around Woods, North Bennington, VT

Leave a Comment / Disturbed Habitat, Meadow, Wayside Flowers, Woodland / Megan

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Plymouth Rose Gentian, Sabatia kennedyana

Weekly Wildflowers – Ashumet Holly Sanctuary, Falmouth, MA

Aquatic, Bog, Disturbed Habitat, Wayside Flowers, Wetland, Woodland / Megan

This walk will probably go down as my favorite walk of the year – it’s got a unique coastal plain pond, so I was just swimming in flowers I’d never seen before. We did joke at the end of the walk that it needs to be renamed to the Ashumet Green Briar Sanctuary – I

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