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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