NPG May 12, 2016

New York Botanical Garden's Native Plant Garden - May 12, 2016

A beautiful, sunny day, temperature rising to reach 70 degrees. Many visitors wandering early through the Native Plant Garden, opportunity for brief conversations with 8 people, and finally 5 for a full tour. The listing today is based on plants as you turn to the right on the Gravel-Lok as you enter the NPG and follow around the meadow. Third week in a row that 50 or more (54 today) blooming plants are listed.

Wild Geranium

Golden Alexanders

Dogwood

Wild Bleeding Heart

Fairywand Chamaelirium luteum [as you begin the approach to the NPG entrance] 
      This was misidentified and is not corrected as Camassia scilloides Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth

Phlox

Blueberry

Wild indigo

Bluestar 

Shooting Star

Columbine

Foamflower 

Plume Solomon’s Seal

Yellow Trillium

Yellow Lady Slipper

Mayapple

Bluets

Azalea

Rhododendron 

Bellwort

[Keep an eye out passing Inkberry Ilex glabra for the 1/4” waxy flower worth using your magnifying glass]

White Trillium [turns pink with age; wish I did]
Wild Ginger

Jacob’s Ladder
Robin's Fleabane

Larkspur

White Trillium [double petals on cultivar stand out]

Celandine Poppy

Rue Anemone

Sedum

Red Trillium

Starry Solomon’s Seal

Azalea, Pinxter [in front of the Franklin tree]

Cinnamon Fern

Virginia Bluebells

Pitcher Plants, Yellow Trumpets and Red

Iris

Graves Beach Plum

Globeflower

Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea

Common Fleabane

Spiderwort

Prairie Smoke

Dwarf Beardtongue

Blue-eyed Grass

Green Hawthorne

Yellow Mandarin Prosartes

Black Chokeberry Aronia

Silverbell Halesia

Dwarf Crested Iris Iris cristata

Doghobble

Hairy Chickweed

American Umbrella
Viola walteri

Yellow Mandarin, Prosartes

Prairie Smoke, Geum triflorum

Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth Camassia scilloides

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NYBG NPG May 5, 2016

NPG MAY 5, 2016   Today felt cold, cloudy, 50 degrees. Six visitors on the tour. Blooming today:

At the top of the steps, in front of the rhododendron, a white bell-like flower whose name I used to know. [Clematis ochroleuca]
Alabama Croton - Croton alabamensis [on right metal descending path]
Alexanders, Golden Zizia aurea
Azaleas: Pinxter, Flame Azalea etc. Rhododendron
Beetleweed Galax urceolata
Bellwort Uvularia perfoliata
Black Chokeberry Aronia melancarpa
Blueberry Vaccinium augustifolium
Bluestar Amsonia tabemaemontana
Bluets Houstonia longifolia

Celandine Poppy Stylophorum dyphyllum

Chickweed, Hairy Cerastium arvense

Chokeberry, Black Aronia melanocarpa

Columbine Aquilegia canadense
     [looks like 5 doves; flower turns up when full of seeds which are disbursed by the wind]

Doghobble, Coastal  Leucothoe axillaris

Dogwood Cornus florida

Dwarf Crested Iris Iris cristata

Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia [the seedhead looks like a tiara]

Globeflower Troilus laxus  [look down where the boardwalk turns left]

Graves Beach Plum Prunus maritima  [past the meadow, on your right]
Green Hawthorne [budding]

Jacobs Ladder Polemonium van-bruntiae

Jacob’s Ladder, variegated Polemonium reptans

Lady Slipper, Yellow Cypripedium calceolus

Larkspur Delphinium tricorne

Leatherleaf Chamaedaphne calyculata

Mayapple Podophyllum peltatum [all poisonous parts except the ripe apple “beloved of pigs, raccoons and small boys” (Asa Gray)]

Phlox Phlox stolonifera

Plume/False Solomon’s Seal Smilacina racemosa
     [called false because it did not have the medical properties of  Polygonatum biflorum]

Prairie Smoke Geum triflorum

Rhododendron

Robin’s Fleabane erigeron pulchellus

Rue Anemone Anemonella thalictroides, Thalictrum thalictroides

Scylla 

Shooting Star Primula meadia

Silverbell Halesia tetraptera

Solomon’s Seal Polygonatum biflorum

Starry False Solomon’s Seal Maianthemum stellatum

Stonecrop Sedum ternatum

Trillium, Red Trillium erectum

Trillium, White Trillium grandiflorum

Trillium, Yellow Trillium luteum

Turkey Corn Dicentra eximia  [Hey, we call it Wild Bleeding Heart]

Viola walteri

Violet, Birdfoot Viola pedata

Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica

Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum
     [don’t be fooled by similar flower, very different leaves on Jacob’s Ladder]

Wild Ginger Asarum arvense [a top favorite, spread the leaves to see the amazing flower]

Wild Indigo Baptisia alba
     [also called Shoofly because farmers used the flexible stem to chase flies from the horse.]

Yellow Mandarin/Fairybells Prosartes lanuginose

Croton alabamensis Alabama Croton

Globeflower Troilus laxus

Halesia tetraptera Silverbell

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