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Category: Flora

FLORA: Watch out for this one!

Posted on March 29, 2012March 29, 2012 by Staff

Well now, I had a wonderful, easy-to-grow, native wildflower groundcover all lined up for this week’s Flora when an awful, innocent-looking plant alien pushed it aside.

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FLORA: Died and gone to heaven

Posted on March 22, 2012March 21, 2012 by Staff

It was the first weekend in April last year that I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when chancing upon carpets of the tiny little red-eyed, purple-petaled bluets carpeting the sacred ground of the Sparrow Cemetery out on Mt. Carmel Church Road.

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FLORA: Tread gently among the trout lilies

Posted on March 15, 2012March 16, 2012 by Staff

More than four weeks ago Dave Otto spotted a trout lily in flower on Bolin Creek.

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FLORA: What’s wrong with the red cedars?

Posted on March 8, 2012March 8, 2012 by Staff

This is the time in our changing seasons when we might become alarmed that some of our red cedar trees are diseased or otherwise sickly.

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FLORA: Spring has sprung, and André Michaux is coming to town!

Posted on March 1, 2012March 2, 2012 by Staff

Three weeks ago local woods walker and photographer Dave Otto shared his image of trout lily, Erythronium umbilicatum, flowering down along Bolin Creek.

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FLORA: Way over there in the watercress patch

Posted on February 23, 2012February 24, 2012 by Staff

Last week down in Saxapahaw during the 30th anniversary celebration of the Haw River Assembly, local musician and songwriter Tim Stambaugh excitedly said to me, “It’s watercress time again.”

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FLORA: Being aware

Posted on February 16, 2012February 17, 2012 by Staff

National Invasive Species Awareness Week is Feb. 26-March 3!

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FLORA: The flower that doesn’t stop

Posted on February 9, 2012February 8, 2012 by Staff

“Fields of dandelion are like huge cloud rafts floating on a sea of green. Lying back on this flowery bed can become intoxicating, the mind swooning with the fragrance…”

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FLORA: Roadside carpet of mullein

Posted on February 2, 2012February 17, 2012 by Staff

Flora’s focus this week is wooly mullein, Verbascum thapsus, also called velvet-leaf, flannel-leaf, Jacob’s staff and Quaker rouge.

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FLORA: What is wintergreen?

Posted on January 26, 2012February 17, 2012 by Staff

The most obvious evergreen features of the winter forest floor are numerous extensive carpets of Christmas ferns.

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FLORA: Getting lost in the winter woods

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Staff

Last week woods-walking companion Tony Blanford took the lead to introduce Brian Stokes and me to his favorite “secret forest” of legendary oaks and beeches.

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FLORA: Feasting on Ocracoke

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Staff

I am still relishing attending the Sixth Annual Ocracoke Working Watermen’s Association oyster roast, shrimp boil and fish stew fundraiser on the eve of New Year’s Eve.

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FLORA: Winter tree watch

Posted on January 5, 2012January 5, 2012 by Staff

I hope some of you joined in on the Eno River Association New Year’s Day Hike. That annual tradition began more than 40 years ago.

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FLORA: Don’t discard that special tree

Posted on December 29, 2011January 6, 2012 by Susan Dickson

As we reflect on the joys of the season, take time out to ponder the specialness of that tree you brought indoors to accompany your family traditions.

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FLORA: Enchanted holly forest

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Staff

For years I have made pilgrimages to my secret forest of American holly, Ilex opaca, on the edge of Jordan Lake.

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