Wild Wild Woods

American Pasqueflower or Eastern Pasqueflower (in the Buttercup family) provides a large amount of pollen for pollinators, an important earl...

Culver's Root Veronicastrum virginicum is found growing in wetlands and wet prairies. The individual flowers are comprised of four fuse...

These lovely purple flowers are loved by bees. The early blooms help feed insects before a lot of other flowers open. This 'ground ivy...

Before June, dandelion flowers are one of a few important food source for pollinators, providing both nectar and pollen for bumblebees and h...

Small yellow wildflowers, brightening the green grasses and rushes around the pond now, are River Loosestrife Lysimachia hybrida, or Lowland...

 Coneflower, Mountain Mint, Sneezeweed, Ironweed, Asters, Goldenrod.

  To complement all the blue and purple flowers around the pond this week, the Goldenrod has unfurled its blooms.  Solidago  species, common...

The tall, stately plants topped by brilliant purple flowers -- blooming now by the pond -- are Common Ironweed Vernonia fasciculata.   Each ...

The  rose flowers of Swamp Milkweed  Asclepias incarnata  plants are blooming in several places along the shore around the pond.  Actually, ...

White Sweet Clover is a another plant brought to North America as a green manure for fields and as a forage crop for livestock. And it is...

Wild Bergamot Monarda didyma  is blooming now in the buffer around the pond. Also known as bee balm, horsemint, oswego tea, bergamot...

Ironweed Vernonia fasciculata is growing tall in the buffer around the pond.  Soon, it will open its brilliant purple aster-like flowers in...

Blue Vervain Verbena hastata is a graceful plant in the wetland, with numerous crowning spikes of blossoms that give a candelabra-like app...

Blooming now in the riparian buffer around the pond - -  Virginia Mountain Mint,  Pycnanthemum virginianum.   Look for them as  2 or 3 fo...

Last summer, a few Milkweed plants were blooming on the wetland surrounding the pond. This is Swamp Milkweed  Asclepias incarnata;  it...

Alfalfa Medicago sativa is another forage crop grown around the world. But it escaped and now commonly sprouts along roads and degraded or...

Clover is a forage crop around the world.  But it readily escapes cultivation, so it is common in meadows and in disturbed places.  This pon...

While admiring the Cranesbill 'Karmina' in the gardens today, I noticed a fuzzy bee hurrying from one to another of the blooms th...

Germander Teucrium canadense self-seeded a few years ago where the slopes drain rainwater down to the swale and into the woods.  Tiny 3/8...