Native Plant Garden - May 26, 2016

New York Botanical Garden, Wednesday, May 26, 2016

Two of the negatives about the NYBG for me occurred today: unbearable traffic which I dealt with by following the GPS all through Fordham Road in the Bronx to get to the Garden, and 94 degrees (at home) which I dealt with by sweating. As long as there are still Wild Ginger flowers, gotta get there.

Katherine who is a smart young woman as determined as I to know the name of every blooming plant (you’d get a different meanng if you were English) joined me today, and a couple (who came because of seeing the sign) very interested in plants that make the tour worthwhile.

Instead of repeating the whole list from May 20th, the plants new this week are:

In the approach to the NPG entrance, Wild Indigo, yellow, Baptisia carolina “moonlight”

Kentucky Lady Slipper looking robust and blooming later than the other lady slippers; Colycanthus florida; Virginia Jumpseed; Bowman’s Root; Heuchera; Lance-leaved Coreopsis; White Violets.

Meadow Sweet is budding, as is Inkberry.

No longer finding blooming Bellwort, Hawthorne Tree, Camassia scilloides, most Trillium are fading,

I’ve asked Curator Michael Hagen (out of the office until May 31, so hang on) to identify two plants:

1) A number of these plants about 2’ high,  with 1/4” white flowers, stamens protruding, opposite toothed leaves. [Michael Hagen suggests: "Pretty sure other plant is wild sweet cicely, Osmorhiza claytonii though I will check when i get back on Tuesday."]

Osmorhiza claytonii 

2) A perhaps Carex that looks like peas in a pod. Sign says "Carex plantaginea" [Michael Hagen affirms: "The sign is right. That is Carex plantaginea. Young foliage is attractively puckered."]

Carex plantaginea

I won’t be at the Garden next week because of cataract surgery so if anyone is as nutty as I and would send a list of changes for the week, that would be great.


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