Category: Flora
Flora: A late-fall color worth the walk
Flora: A walk in the rain
Flora: The oaks of Weaver Street
A brilliant red
Flora: Mighty fine native vine
Flora: Seeing autumn tints before the peak
Flora: Magical Moments
Flora: A really obscure wildflower
Flora: A flower of the night
Flora: Wild encounters on Jones Street
Flora: Bioterrorism ‘mongst the wildflowers
Flora: Elephant’s-foot
A one-day flower with a two-day appeal
Ken Moore Locally we frequently spot the common white-flowered, swamp mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos, growing in wet depressions and along the edges of Jordan Lake. Fortunately, they have numerous buds, for each flower remains open for only one day. However, in my opinion there’s a finer wild hibiscus out there, but you’ll have to go further…
Another little woodland orchid
By Ken Moore The downy rattlesnake plantain, Goodyera pubescens, another little native orchid, is not nearly as hard to spot in the local woods as is the cranefly orchid described last week. Keeping an eye out for the distinctive basal rosette of three or more white-veined, evergreen leaves helps you discover the three-to-six-inch-tall flowering spike…