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Where we went:
Today was beautiful, but warm. It got to 80 degrees. We went up the
Gunflint Trail - right on Greenwood road left on Assinika or Shoe Lake
Road to our bog. We should have come earlier. The Indian Pipes
(View more photos of Indian Pipes on the
BWCA Discussion Board.) and
Rattlesnake Plantain (if that was what it really was, we couldn't agree)
were past their peak. It would be fun to visit this "Assinika
bog" in the spring but it may be too wet. The Northern Commandra (a
rare plant) & Snowberry were showing their berries. The star of the
show today was Eyebrite. It seemed to be on every road we walked and we
walked quite a few Forest Service or logging roads. We went beyond the
bog and had lunch (at about 3:30) at Carrot Lake. The loon was calling,
we sat down by the water - It couldn't get any better!!
What we saw:
Aster - white and purple
- many different kinds
Bellflower, Creeping - Campanula rapunculoides
Black-eyed Susan - Rudbeckia
serotina
Clover, Hop - Trifolium agratium
Clover, Rabbitsfoot - Trifolium arvense
Clover, Red & White ssp.
Commandra, Northern - Geocauion liviclum*
Daisy , Ox-eye-
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
Everlasting, Pearly - Anaphalis
margaritacea
Eyebrite - Euphrasia americana*
Fireweed - Epilobium
angustifolium
Fleabane, Daisy - Erigeron annuus
Gentian, Spurred - Halenia deflexa
Goldenrod - Solidago ssp
Goldenrod, Canada - Solidago canadensis
Harebell - Campanula
rotundifolia - both blue and white
Hawkweed, Yellow, Common -
Hieracium vulgatum
Heal-all - Prunella vulgaris
Indian Pipe - Monotropa uniflora it's a Saprophyte; a plant that
gets its food from dead organic matter, in Pyrola family
Jewelweed or Spotted Touch-me-not - Impatiens capensis
Joe Pye Weed ssp
Pink, Deptford - Dianthus deltoides
Spurrey, Sand - Spergularia rubra
Stitchwort, Lesser - Stellaria graminea
Tansy, Common - Lilium tigrinum
Thistle, Bull - Cirsium vulgare - it's in seed now and they are
beautiful when they open up and "turn in-side out"
Thistle, Canada - Cirsium
arvense - these are also now in seed
Thistle, Sow, Common - Sonchus oleraceus
Trefoil, Birdfoot - Lotus
corniculatus
Virgin's Bower - Clematis virginiana*
Yarrow - Achillea lanulosa
Berries:
Snowberry
Blueberry
Highbush Cranberry
Raspberry
Thimbleberry
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