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After a morning treat of homemade, hand picked Blueberry
Muffins we headed to a Red Pine forest above the Maple Hill Cemetery.
Jean wanted to show us some Indian
Pipes. We saw the ones she found and then found about 100 more. We
have never seen so many! They were at all stages. (View
more photos of Indian Pipes on the
BWCA Discussion Board.) Then there were many
of these "mystery plants". L & J thought they were Autumn
Coralroot, Corallorhiza odontorhiza. B. thought they were seed pods from
Spotted Coralroot. We didn't have our Orchid book along but when we did
check - the Autumn Coralroot only lives in S.E. MN. - so we (L&B)
think that B was right. J. still believes it is the Autumn one. I guess
that will have to be another quest, finding the known seedpods of the Spotted
Coralroot. J also showed us a beautiful stand of Jewelweed in full
bloom.
B&L left J to prepare for her company and went to the Ski Hill Rd
just above town and walked South on the Superior
Hiking Trail. It is such a beautiful woods. We saw lots of
Bunchberries (in berry) and leaves for Goldthread & Linnea. We must
go back there next spring - but there are so many places to go in the
spring.
We had lunch at the Scenic Overlook and instead of just eating and
enjoying the view we had to get busy with our books and identify Pale
Smartweed, European Stickseed and Northern Willow Herb. There were two
things B brought home to identify because we had no luck finding them.
The fruit bushes were in berry: Chokecherry, Pin Cherry & Juneberry.
The highway is beautiful with the Fireweed, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Yarrow,
Goldenrod, Pearly Everlasting, Sow Thistle, etc. The Fireweed gives us 3
shows: when it is in flower, when the flowers are almost over and the
beautiful pink of the seed pods and the white fuzzy down of the seeds.
Another Wonderful Day!!
The
"Mystery" has now been solved... Two years later!
What we saw this week:
Aster
ssp - one white one purple
Bedstraw, Rough - Galium asprellum
Bellflower,
Creeping - Campanula rapunculoides
Bindweed,
Fringed - Polygonum cilinode
Black-eyed
Susan - Rudbeckia serotina
Buckwheat,
Climbing False - Polygonum scandens
Butter &
Eggs - Linaria vulgaris
Buttercup, Tall
or Common - Ranunculus acris
Carpetweed - Mollugo verticillata
Chamomile,
Scentless - Matricaria maritima
Clover,
Hop - Trifolium agratium
Clover, Pink, White & Lavender
Clover,
Rabbitsfoot - Trifolium arvense
Clover,
Sweet, Yellow, White & Purple
Dogbane,
Spreading - Apocynum androsaemifolium
Everlasting,
Pearly - Anaphalis margaritacea
Fireweed - Epilobium
angustifolium
Goldenrod ssp.
Hawkweed,
Canada - Hieracium canadense
Heal-all
- Prunella vulgaris
Horseweed
- Erigeron canadensis
Jewelweed,
Touch-me-not - Impatiens capensis
Joe-Pye Weed, Spotted -
Eupatorium maculatum
Knapweed,
Spotted - Centaurea maculosa (invasive)
Loosestrife, Purple - Lythrum salicaria (invasive)
Meadowsweet
- Spiraea
Mint, Wild - Mentha arvensis
Mullein,
Common - Verbascum thapsus
Mustard, Wormseed
- Erysimum cheiranthoides
Nettle, White Dead - Lamium album
Pigweed
or Lamb's Quarters - Chenopodium album
Pineapple Weed - Matricaria matricarioides
Pink, Deptford - Dianthus deltoides
Primrose,
Evening-Oenothera biennis
St. Johnswort, Larger Canada - Hypericum majus*
Smartweed, Pale - Polygonum lapathifolium
Sorrel, Yellow Wood - Oxalis europaea
Spurry,
Sand - Spergularia rubra
Stickseed,
European - Lappula echinata*
Tansy -
Tanacetum vulgare
Thistle, Bull - Cirsium vulgare
Thistle,
Canada - Cirsium arvense
Thistle, Field Sow - Sonchus arvensis
Trefoil, Birdsfoot
- Lotus corniculatus
Valerian,
Garden/Garden Heliotrope - Valeriana officinalis
Willow
Herb, Northern - Epilobium glandulosum*
Yarrow
- Achillea millefolium
Blooming Trees and Shrubs:
Meadowsweet
- Spiraea latifolia
Berries we saw:
Bunchberries - Cornus canadensis
Cherry, Pin - Prunus pennsylvanica
Chokecherry - Prunus virginiana
Currant, Upright -
Ribes
Dogwood,
Red Osier - Cornus stolonifera
Elderberry,
Red-berried - Sambucus pubens
Gooseberry
- Ribes
Juneberry
(Service Berry)- Amelanchier
Raspberry - Rubus
idaeus
Sarsaparilla, Wild - Aralia nudicaulis
Thimbleberry
- Rubus parviflorus
*New this week
ssp - subspecies
Books used most often:
Newcomb's "Wildflower Guide"
The Peterson Field Guide Series "A Field Guide to Wildflowers"
George W. D. Symonds "The Shrub Identification Book"
Clayton & Michele Oslund "What's Doin" the Bloomin'?"
You
can view an entire list from 2001 by clicking
here.
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