Carrion Flower, Smilax herbacea

Weekly Wildflowers – Bay Bridge Landing Park, Brunswick, ME

We hit here at a very high tide (it was a new moon yesterday), but I finally remembered to bring the correct footwear, so quite a few pictures were taken on a nice wade. While the Kennebec is tidal, this is far enough upstream that it’s no longer at all brackish, so the water was

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Mountain Laurel, Kalmia latifolia

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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