Tag: Flora
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Showy Milkweed
Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) leaves, the habitat plant for monarch butterflies(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Swallowtail Butterfly
One of over 550 species of swallowtail butterflies. This one is probably a tiger swallowtail butterfly. (Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Spicebush
Spicebush (calycanthus occidentalis) flower. Stems were used as arrow shafts.(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: The Fen
A fen is a marsh or bog, a low area of land subject to seasonal flooding.(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Cow Parsnip
Cow Parsnip (Heracleum maximum) blossoms. (Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Granite Garden
Grasses, mosses, lichens and flowers flourish on a wet granite ledge.(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Stonecrop
While I’m no plant expert, I think this is a member of the sedum family.(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent)
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Edie’s Image of the Day: Snow Plant
Snow Plant and Sweet Woodruff(Cross posted from The Little Red Tent) Snow plant; Sarcoides sanguinea is a parasitic plant that has no chlorophyl. It has no leaves, but gets its nutrients from decaying matter. It appears after the snows have melted. The brilliant green plants are sweet woodruff, (Galium odoratum) an import that was used as a…