Native Plant Garden on May 22, 2016

Native Plant Garden, New York Botanical Garden, May 22, 2016

guest post by Joel A. Nevis y Flores

An overcast day with some raindrops as I entered by the Mosholu gate, where the day's events features the ongoing Impressionist exhibition but did not mention my two tours of the native plant garden. No wonder that no one was there at 12:30p for my first tour -- though a native plant enthusiast from Westchester arrived in a few minutes for a really good interaction. I had eight people for the second tour at 2:30p so maybe signs were put up by the main entrance after all. The temperature started off in the high 50s rising to about 71F, with predominant pollens from oak, mulberry and the grasses. 

With the warmer, drier weather in the afternoon, and after visitors had seen the Impressionist exhibit at the Conservatory, a number of people meandered through the Native Plant Garden. A few were alarmed by a garter snake near the white baptisias next to the entrance pavilion. But everyone who noticed was intrigued by the robin's nest in the shadbushes and by the birds bathing by the Elizabeth Knight Britton plaque (robins, bluejays, yellow warblers). And the chipmunks were extremely active that day. 

hungry robin chick in nest

American robin in shadbush, darting from nest to distraction attention

Eastern chipmunk (Tamius striatus)

Here is what was in bloom or of interest that day:

Amelanchier canadensis - Shadbush
Amsonia tabernaemontana - Bluestar
Anemonella thalictroides - Rue anemone
Aquilegia canadensis - Eastern red columbine
Aquilegia chrysantha - Golden columbine
Arisaema triphyllum - Jack in the pulpit

Arisaema triphyllum

Asarum canadense - Wild ginger
Baptisia alba - White false indigo
Baptisia australis - False indigo
Baptisia carolina - Yellow wild indigo, by the native border's dry-stacked stones

Baptisia carolina

Calycanthus floridus - Carolina allspice, sweetshrub

Calycanthus floridus

Camassia scilloides - Eastern camas, wild hyacinth
Carex - sedge (which species is growing in the wetland garden?)
Cerastium arvense - Hairy chickweed
Chionanthus virginicus  - Fringetree
Chrysogonum virginianum - Green and gold
Clematis ochroleuca  - Curlyhead
Cornus sericea - Red osier dogwood
Crataegus viridis -Green hawthorn
Cypripedium parviflorum - Yellow lady's slipper, moccasin flower
Cypripedium parviflorum parviflorum - Lesser lady's slipper orchid
Delphinium tricorne - Larkspur delphinium
Dicentra eximia - Wild bleeding heart
Diphylleia cymosa  - Umbrellaleaf
Erigeron pulchellus -Daisy fleabane

Erigeron pulchellus

Geranium maculatum - Cranesbill geranium
Geum triflorum  - Prairie smoke

Geum triflorum

Gillenia trifoliata -Bowman's root, Indian Physic, American Ipecac

Gillenia trifoliata

Heuchera longiflora - Longflower alumroot

Heuchera longiflora

Houstonia caerulea -Azure bluets
Iris cristata - Dwarf crested iris
Iris hookeri - Beachhead Iris
Kalmia angustifolia - Lambkill
Kalmia latifolia -Mountain laurel
Maianthemum stellatum - Starry false Solomon's seal
Maianthemum racemosum - False Solomon's seal
Mertensia virginiana -Virginia bluebells - one left still
Monarda bradburiana - Eastern beebalm

Monarda bradburiana

mushrooms on the rosebay trail
Orontium aquaticum - Goldenclub
Osmunda regalis  - American Royal fern
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum - Cinnamon fern
Parthenium integrifolium - Wild quinine
Penstemon hirsutus - Hairy beardtongue
Penstemon - some white ones I could not get close to to find out which kinds they are (probably Penstemon digitalis)

Penstemon

Phacelia bipinnatifolia - Purple phacelia, fernleaf phacelia
Phlox divaricata - Blue phlox
Phlox stolonifera - Creeping phlox
Podophyllum peltatum - Mayapple
Polemonium - I never can determine if Jacob's ladder is Polemonium caeruleum or Polemonium reptant
Polemonium caeruleum - Jacob's ladder
Polygonatum biflorum  - Solomon's Seal
Primula meadia -Shootingstars
Prosartes lanuginose - Yellow mandarin, Yellow fairybells
Rhododendon choptank rose
Rhododendron minus minus - Piedmont rhododendron, Carolina rhododendron

Rhododendron minus var. minus

Rhododendron My Mary

Rhododendron 'My Mary'

Rhododendron - a number of hybrids
Sarracenia  - a number of species and hybrids I can never tell apart

Sarracenia

Sarracenia leucophylla  - Crimson pitcherplant, Purple trumpet
Sarracenia leucophylla x oreophila -Hybrid pitcherplant
Sarracenia oreophila - Green pitcherplant

Sarracenia oreophila

Sarracenia x areolata - a naturally occurring hybrid between the Pale Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia alata) and the White-top Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia leucophylla)
Sedum nevii - Nevius stonecrop
Sisyrinchium angustifolium - Narrow-leaf blue-eyed grass
Stylophorum diphyllum - Celandine Poppy
Tiarella cordifolia  - Foamflower
Tradescantia - Spiderwort

Tradescantia

Trillium erecta - Red trillium
Trillium recurvatum - Bloody butcher, Prairie trillium 
Trillium flexipes - Bent trillium
Trillium grandiflorum - White trillium and double white trillium
Trillium luteum -Yellow trillium
Uvularia grandiflora - Bellwort
Vaccinium corymbosum - Highbush blueberry - mostly fruit but a flower or two left
Viola walteri - Walter's violet
Viola blanda -Sweet white violet
Zizia aptera - Golden Alexanders

Also non-natives Taraxacum official (dandelion), Rumex acetosella (red sorrel), Oxalis stricta (yellow wood sorrel)

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