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Category: Flora

FLORA: Be certain you know the difference!

Posted on September 1, 2011September 1, 2011 by Staff

As described in last week’s Flora, you want to avoid close contact with ornamental smooth sumac’s viney cousin, poison ivy, Rhus radicans.

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FLORA: Appreciating sumac

Posted on August 25, 2011August 25, 2011 by Staff

I am thankful for the sumac that volunteered along our Carrboro roadside. It’s now well established and I look forward every year to finding where new stems emerge.

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Go out after dark to see this one

Posted on August 18, 2011August 18, 2011 by Staff

Jimsonweeds will volunteer wherever there is open ground.

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FLORA: Here’s a flower you won’t pick!

Posted on August 11, 2011August 15, 2011 by Staff

Durham resident Parker Chesson recently captured the above image of a swallowtail on a bull thistle flower head.

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FLORA: Another spectacular Piedmont wildflower display

Posted on August 4, 2011August 4, 2011 by Staff

I jump for joy when I view a field of wildflowers, especially here in our Piedmont region.

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FLORA: “Mother Nature’s daily special”

Posted on July 28, 2011July 28, 2011 by Staff

Brian’s daily “closer looks” at the local flora called to my attention several common but seldom-noticed wildflowers of particular beauty.

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FLORA: Poke, my favorite plant

Posted on July 21, 2011July 21, 2011 by Staff

While most folks frown on common pokeweed or poke salad, Phytolacca americana, sophisticated gardeners like my friend Sally Heiney admire and grow this giant native perennial.

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FLORA: Plantain leads us to dock

Posted on July 14, 2011July 14, 2011 by Staff

You know, folks, I generally have two or more stories and photos queued up for Flora ahead of submission deadlines.

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FLORA: Trumpet creeper, one of our fine native vines

Posted on July 7, 2011July 7, 2011 by Staff

Recently, I was queried by a Citizen reader about why I never write about vines.

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FLORA: Plantains have it all!

Posted on June 30, 2011June 30, 2011 by Staff

After recently seeing some handsome specimens of common plantain, Plantago major, up in the Carolina mountains, I was happy to arrive home to find my own wild population showing off impressively …

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FLORA: Bottlebrush grass

Posted on June 23, 2011June 25, 2011 by Staff

For years and years, I’ve been admiring bottlebrush grass, a wild grass of the open forests and woods’ edges, and now I enjoy it all around me day after day.

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FLORA: Purslane mulch

Posted on June 16, 2011June 20, 2011 by Staff

Several years ago, purslane, Portulaca oleracea, began appearing in my vegetable garden. Just last week, I noticed tiny yellow flowers nestled in amongst all the succulent leaves.

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FLORA: Peppergrass

Posted on June 9, 2011June 13, 2011 by Staff

This week, I’m spicing up my yucca flower dishes (see last week’s Flora) with peppergrass harvested from the edge of the drive.

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FLORA: Not just a pretty flower

Posted on June 2, 2011June 8, 2011 by Staff

Now that yuccas are very noticeable as they approach full flowering, I remember a camping trip of a few years ago.

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With luck, you’ll spot a yellow one

Posted on May 26, 2011May 26, 2011 by Staff

During the past week, I’ve been catching glimpses of little white flowers hovering just above the tops of grasses in rural areas outside Carrboro and in some of the unmowed roadside edges closer into town.

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