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Category: Flora

FLORA: A teaching moment

Posted on July 12, 2012July 12, 2012 by Staff

The Carrboro Farmers’ Market annual Tomato Day this Saturday is a great teaching moment.

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FLORA: Water’s edge botany

Posted on July 5, 2012July 5, 2012 by Staff

After months and months, I finally got the kayak out on the water a couple weeks ago.

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FLORA: Searching for the Carolina lily

Posted on June 28, 2012June 29, 2012 by Staff

Dr. W. C. Coker began the Coker Arboretum as an outdoor classroom to supplement classes on identification and ecology of North Carolina native plants.

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FLORA: ‘Lived to learn it!’

Posted on June 21, 2012June 25, 2012 by Staff

“Lived to learn it” was A.J. Bullard’s response when I queried him last week about his accumulated mulberry knowledge.

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FLORA: Great Aunt Myra Baldwin’s pressed flower

Posted on June 14, 2012June 14, 2012 by Staff

Six weeks ago I was all set to tell a story about sundrops, Oenothera fruticosa, my identification for Jock Lauterer’s great aunt’s pressed four-petaled, yellow, early-May wildflower in “A Thousand Words.”

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FLORA: Mulberry names go round and round

Posted on June 7, 2012June 7, 2012 by Staff

Citizen reader Mary Ayers recently suggested that I might enjoy seeing a beautiful red-fruited mulberry tree out on Union Grove Road at the edge of a farm field.

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FLORA: Discover a new trail on National Trails Day

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Staff

This Saturday is the American Hiking Society’s 20th National Trails Day.

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FLORA: Little blue flowers steal the show

Posted on May 24, 2012May 24, 2012 by Staff

Two blue-flowered beauties have taken center stage during my recent walkabouts.

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FLORA: Our spectacular Piedmont

Posted on May 17, 2012May 17, 2012 by Staff

This week I was planning a Flora story inspired by the pressed-flower specimen in Jock Lauterer’s Great Aunt Myra Baldwin’s 1943 diary described in a recent “A Thousand Words.”

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FLORA: Eulogy for Polk Place Persimmon

Posted on May 10, 2012May 12, 2012 by Staff

Flora has annually eulogized the university’s 200-plus-year-old “Polk Place Persimmon.”

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FLORA: Spectacular wildflowers in the Piedmont

Posted on May 3, 2012May 2, 2012 by Staff

A friend visiting from the Carolina mountains inquired of some local folks about locations of spectacular wildflower displays here in the Piedmont.

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FLORA: ‘Curiously lurking amongst the grassy leaves’

Posted on April 26, 2012April 25, 2012 by Staff

Legendary English gardener and writer Vita Sackville-West described spiderwort as “… a plant I like very much, sometimes called the Trinity Flower, owing to its three petals of a rich violet, curiously lurking amongst the grassy leaves.”

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FLORA: It’s all there

Posted on April 19, 2012April 22, 2012 by Staff

With three parted leaves like the traditional shamrock, the wood-sorrels are calling out to us these days from sunny and shady locations.

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FLORA: Wild geraniums

Posted on April 12, 2012April 11, 2012 by Staff

Cool, moist interludes during this early warm spring provide optimal conditions for a lingering presence of our wildflowers.

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FLORA: Lowly, lovely cinquefoil

Posted on April 5, 2012April 5, 2012 by Staff

It is so interesting to watch the unfolding of the new landscape slowly emerging around the N.C. Botanical Garden’s new building complex.

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