Sunday, July 6th 2008 - Report by Erik Anderson

I visited the Arrowhead Trail, Shoe Lake Road, Greenwood Road, and the Gunflint Trail.  The Shoe Lake Road still needs quite a bit of work since the washout/flooding rains.  For wildlife, I saw a deer on the Arrowhead, a fox on the Shoe Lake Road, and a nice bull moose on the Gunflint.  During a stop along the Shoe Lake Road, my dogs and I enjoyed some fresh wild strawberries.

Here's what I found blooming:

Oxeye Daisy - Chrysanthemum leucanthemum

Yellow Hawkweed - Hieracium scabrum

Orange Hawkweed - Hieracium aurantiacum

Wild Rose - Rosa

Buttercup - Ranunculus acris

Thimbleberry Rubus occidentalis

Cow Parsnip - Heracleum maximum

Lupine - Lupinus polyphyllus

Yellow Pond Lily - Nuphar microphyllum

Purple Vetch - Vicia americana

False Lily of the Valley - Maianthemum canadense

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Blue Flag Iris - Iris versicolor

Purple Clover - Trifolium ssp.

Pink Clover

Bird's Foot Trefoil - Lotus corniculatus

Twin Flower -  Linnea borealis

White Bladder Campion

Early Meadowrue

Lilac, Common (Old fashioned) - Syringa vulgaris

Honeysuckle, Bush - Dievervilla lonicera