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Wildflowers
July 11, 2001
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On Friday we parked one car on the Lindskoog Road at the Superior Hiking Trail parking lot and the other car at an old cart road about in the middle of #60. Our quest was to see the Wood Lilies. The weather looked somewhat threatening but we forged ahead. We saw lots of tent caterpillar cocoons but only wilted Wood Lilies. The view from the meadow was fantastic. Of course it rained when we were about halfway in and we got soaking wet. My friend referred to it as a "forced march" but she was a good sport. After walking for 2 1/2 hours with Wood Lilies the main quest and finding none, we saw a clump of them from the car on #60!! On Wednesday we were invited to a private prairie and woods for the special treat of seeing the Ragged Fringed Orchid. We had only seen it once before and there were hundreds. It was quite a treat. The weather was beautiful.. What we saw: Buttercup - Ranunculus acris Chickweed , Field - cerastium arvense Clover, Red & White ssp. Clover, Sweet - Yellow & White ssp. Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis Cow-Parsnip - Heracleum maximum Daisy , Ox-eye- Chrysanthemum leucanthemum Dogbane, Spreading - Apocynum androsaemifolium Forget-me-not - True - Myosotis scorpioides Hawkweed , Yellow- Hieracium scabrum Hawkweed , Orange- Hieracium aurantiacum Lupine - Lupinus polyphylus Meadow Rue - Thalictrum ssp. Rose, Wild spp. Sorrel, Wood - Oxalis montana Spurrey, Sand - Spergularia rubra Vetch , Purple- Vicia americana Iris, Blue Flag - Iris prismatica Butter-and-eggs - Linaria vulgaris Pyrola, Pink - Pyrola asarifolia Dock, Indian Tobacco - Rumex Buckwheat, Climbing, False - Polygonum scanclens Bugloss, Vipers - Echium vulgare Yarrow - Achillea millefolium Heal-all - Prunella vulgaris Fireweed - Epilobium angustifolium Pyrola, One-sided - Pyrola secunda Clover, Rabbitsfoot - Trifolium arvense Clover, Hop - Trifolium agratium Clover, Least Hop - Trifolium dubium Avens, Yellow - Geum aleppicum Snakeroot, Clustered - Sanicula gregaria Stitchwort, Lesser - Stellar graminea Campion, White - Lychnis alba Yarrow, Pink ssp Black-eyed Susan - Rudbeckia serotina Joe Pye Weed ssp Meadowrue, Pink ss Wintergreen (or Pyrola) , One-flowered - Moneses uniflora Primrose, Common Evening - Oenothera biennis* Bedstraw, Northern - Galium boreale* Trefoil, Birdfoot - Lotus corniculatus - this was new last week but forgotten Pyrola, Lesser - Pyrola minor Lily, Wood - Lilium andinum* Orchid, Long-bracted - Habenaria viridis* Orchid, Northern Bog - Habenaria hyperborea* Orchid, Ragged Fringed - Platanthera (Habenaria) lacera* Bellflower, Creeping - Campanula rapunculoides*
Trees and Shrubs we saw blooming: Thimbleberry - Rubus parviflorus Moose or Mountain Maple - Acer spicatum Bush Honeysuckle - Diervilla lonicera Cinquefoil, Rough - Potentilla norvegica Honeysuckle, Tartarian - Lonicera tatarica Ninebark - Physocarpus opulifolius* this was also blooming last week Sumac, Dwarf - Rhus copallina Honeysuckle Vine - Lonicera hirsuta * new this week |
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