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Where we went:
Sunday we went left from the Old Ski Hill Rd to the Overlook. Tuesday
was the last Wildflower class, we went to Devil's Track Lake and Pit
Lake Bog.
Wednesday we had a long day and went: Up the Caribou Trail to the Ward
Lake Road. to the maple woods but too many leaves had come out for
flowers to bloom. So we went up Sugar Loaf Road, Cramer Road, Two Island
River Road, #166, Temperance River Road. We had lunch at Tofte Park and
then went to another spot on the shore of Lake Superior to see the
Butterwort.
Flowers we saw blooming:
False Solomon's Seal - Smilacina racemosa
Cow-Parsnip - Heracleum
maximum *
Three-leaved Solomon's Seal - Smilacina trifolia
Nodding Trillium - Trillium cernuum
Sweet Cicely - Osmorhiza clatoni
Pale Vetchling - Lathyrus orchroleucus
White Avens - Geum canadense *
Swamp Buttercup - Ranunculus septintrionalis
Blue-eyed Grass - Sisyrinchium ssp.
Bunchberry - Cornus
canadensis
Clintonia - Clintonia borealis
Caraway - Carum carvi
Orange Hawkweed - Hieracium
aurantiacum
Yellow Hawkweed - Hieracium
scabrum
Mertensia - Mertensia virginica
Ox-eye Daisy
- Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
Lupine - Lupinus polyphylus
One-flowered Wintergreen - or One-flowered Pyrola - Moneses uniflora *
Pitcher-plant - Sarracenia purpurea *
Jack-in-the-Pulpit - Arisaema atrorubens
Buttercup - Ranunculus acris
Clover, Red & White ssp.
Winter Cress - Barbera vulgaris
Silverweed - Potentilla anserina
Wood Sorrel - Oxalis montana *
Dandelion - Taraxacum
officinale
Wild Rose spp.
Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis
Forget-me-not - True - Myosotis
scorpioides
Forget-me-not, Smaller - Myosotis laxa *
Penstemon - Beardtongue - Penstemon digitalis *
Meadow Rue - Thalictrum ssp. *
Field Chickweed - cerastium arvense *
Sundrops - Oenothera fruticosa *
Purple Vetch - Vicia americana
Labrador Tea - Ledum groenlandicum
Vetchling - Lathyrus ochroleuca
Starflower - Trientalis borealis
Wild Lily-of-the-Valley - Maianthemum canadense
Common Strawberry - Fragaria virginiana
Sheep Sorrel - Rumex acelosella
False Buckwheat - Polygonum scanclens *
Clustered Snakeroot - Sanicula gregaria *
Evening Lychnis - Lychnis alba
Spotted Coralroot - Corallorhiza maculata *
Pussytoes - Antennaria neglecta
Butterwort - Pinguicula vulgaris
Shrubby Cinquefoil - Potentilla fruticosa *
Three-toothed Cinquefoil - Potentilla tridentata *
These are the trees and shrubs we saw blooming:
Chokecherry -Prunus virginiana
Labrador Tea - Ledum greenlandicum
Thimbleberry - Rubus
parviflorus
Red Berried Elder - Sambucus pubens
Mountain Ash, American - Sorbus americana
Moose Maple or Mountain Maple - Acer spicatum
Juneberry - Amelanchier spp.
Raspberry - Rubus idaeus *
Highbush Cranberry - Viburnum trilobum *
*new this week
The lilacs are at their peak this week.
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