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Man made wildflowers? Fireworks, Independence Day 2001 |
Wildflowers
July 4, 2001
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Where we went: On Sunday we went on the South Trail (about the middle of the Gunflint) I had wanted to find that trail for several years but was disappointed. The trail was very narrow and the day we went it was very buggy. Also the first 1/2 hour in on the trail was not very pretty. But Wednesday was different. The bugs were bad until we remembered to put on bug dope and then they were no problem. We took W #14 north until Trout Lake rd (140) then went off on Forest Service roads 308 & 306 exploring them by car and foot. We went down to the small lake north of Trout, down to Scabbard Lake and around the shore of Mink Lake. We ate lunch in Kimball Campground.
What we saw: Bunchberry - Cornus canadensis Buttercup - Ranunculus acris Caraway - Carum carvi Chickweed , Field - cerastium arvense Clover, Red & White ssp. Clover, Sweet - Yellow & White ssp. Columbine - Aquilegia canadensis Cow-Parsnip - Heracleum maximum Cress , Winter - Barbera vulgaris Daisy , Ox-eye- Chrysanthemum leucanthemum Dandelion - Taraxacum officinale Dogbane, Spreading - Apocynum androsaemifolium Forget-me-not - True - Myosotis scorpioides Hawkweed , Yellow- Hieracium scabrum Hawkweed , Orange- Hieracium aurantiacum Lady’s Slipper, Smaller Yellow - Cypripedium calceolus Lupine - Lupinus polyphylus Meadow Rue - Thalictrum ssp. Mertensia - Mertensia virginica Rose, Wild spp. Sorrel, Wood - Oxalis montana Spurrey, Sand - Spergularia rubra Twinflower - Linnaea borealis - lots of it and it was beautiful 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* Avens, Yellow - Geum aleppicum* Snakeroot, Clustered - Sanicula gregaria Stitchwort, Lesser - Stellar graminea* Cinquefoil, Three tooth - Potentilla tridentata Campion, White - Lychnis alba Yarrow, Pink ssp Black-eyed Susan - Rudbeckia serotina* just one, our first one Joe Pye Weed ssp* Meadowrue, Pink ssp* Coralroot, Yellow Corallorrhiza ochrokuca - Rare * Wintergreen (or Pyrola) , One-flowered - Moneses uniflora we saw lots and it was special Lily, Small Yellow Pond - Nuphar microphyllum*
Trees and Shrubs we saw blooming: Thimbleberry - Rubus parviflorus this has been a good year for Thimbleberries Mountain Ash - Sorbus americana Moose or Mountain Maple - Acer spicatum Raspberry - Rubus idaeus Bush Honeysuckle - Diervilla lonicera Cinquefoil, Rough - Potentilla norvegica* Honeysuckle, Tartarian - Lonicera tatarica*
* new this week |
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