{"id":4618,"date":"2017-04-08T18:33:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T22:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2017-04-12T02:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:51:41","slug":"spring-flower-walk-8-april-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/?p=4618","title":{"rendered":"8 April 2017 – Spring Wildflower Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Little Patuxent River from the River Trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, the Little Patuxent River Trail located on the North Tract of the Patuxent Research Refuge was the scene for a spring wildflower walk sponsored by the Refuge.<\/p>\n

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Virginia Bluebells among Lesser Celandine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We identified a total of 32 species of plants and one species of lichen. (See list below). The bluebells put on an especially nice display. We did notice that the invasive Lesser Celandine took over more of the area compared to last year.<\/p>\n

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Looking at a Spicebush.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the walk along the River Trail, we drove down to the Chickasaw Plum grove. In addition to the Chickasaw Plum we saw some Devil’s Tongue Cactus (Opuntia humifusa<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

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A good time was had by all.<\/p>\n

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Flowers\/Plants identified<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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  1. Acer negundo<\/em> L. – Boxelder<\/li>\n
  2. Arabidopsis thaliana<\/em> (L.) Heynh. – Mouseear Cress<\/li>\n
  3. Cardamine hirsuta<\/em> L. – Hairy Bittercress<\/li>\n
  4. Carpinus caroliniana<\/em> Walter – American Hornbeam<\/li>\n
  5. Cerastium<\/em> sp. – Mouse-ear Chickweed<\/li>\n
  6. Cercis canadensis<\/em> L. – Eastern Redbud<\/li>\n
  7. Claytonia virginica<\/em> L. – Virginia Spring Beauty<\/li>\n
  8. Corydalis flavula<\/em> (Raf.) DC. – Yellow Fumewort<\/li>\n
  9. Dicentra cucullaria<\/em> (L.) Bernh. – Dutchman’s Breeches<\/li>\n
  10. Draba verna<\/em> L. – Whitlow Grass<\/li>\n
  11. Erythronium americanum<\/em> Ker Gawl. – Dogtooth Violet<\/li>\n
  12. Ficaria verna<\/em> Huds. – Lesser Celandine<\/li>\n
  13. Floerkea proserpinacoides<\/em> Willd. – False Mermaidweed<\/li>\n
  14. Glechoma hederacea<\/em> L. – Ground Ivy<\/li>\n
  15. Hydrophyllum virginianum<\/em> L. – Eastern Waterleaf<\/li>\n
  16. Lamium purpureum<\/em> L. – Purple Deadnettle<\/li>\n
  17. Lindera benzoin<\/em> (L.) Blume – Northern Spicebush<\/li>\n
  18. Mertensia virginica<\/em> (L.) Pers. ex Link – Virginia Bluebells<\/li>\n
  19. Micranthes virginiensis<\/em> (Michaux) Small – Early Saxifrage<\/li>\n
  20. Opuntia humifusa<\/em> (Raf.) Raf. – Devil’s Tongue<\/li>\n
  21. Packera aurea<\/em> (L.) \u00c1. L\u00f6ve & D. L\u00f6ve – Golden Ragweed<\/li>\n
  22. Poa annua<\/em> L. – Annual Blue Grass<\/li>\n
  23. Polystichum acrostichoides<\/em> (Michx.) Schott – Christmas Fern<\/li>\n
  24. Prunus angustifolia<\/em> Marshall – Chickasaw Plum<\/li>\n
  25. Prunus cf. americana<\/em> Marshall – American Plum<\/li>\n
  26. Symplocarpus foetidus<\/em> (L.) Salisb. ex W.P.C. Barton – Skunk Cabbage<\/li>\n
  27. Taraxacum officinale<\/em> F.H. Wigg. – Common Dandelion<\/li>\n
  28. Veronica hederifolia<\/em> L. – Ivyleaf Speedwell<\/li>\n
  29. Veronica persica<\/em> Poir. – Birdeye Speedwell<\/li>\n
  30. Viola bicolor<\/em> Pursh – American Field Pansy<\/li>\n
  31. Viola eriocarpon<\/em> (Nutt.) Schwein. – Downy Yellow Violet<\/li>\n
  32. Viola sororia Willd.<\/em> – Common Blue Violet<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Lichen<\/strong>
    \nCladonia cristatella<\/em> Tuck. – British Soldiers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Today, the Little Patuxent River Trail located on the North Tract of the Patuxent Research Refuge was the scene for a spring wildflower walk sponsored by the Refuge. We identified a total of 32 species of plants and one species of lichen. (See list below). The bluebells put on an especially nice display. We did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4722,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}