NPG  June 23, 2016

Doesn’t bode well today. The possible shower, cloudy, 78 degrees, no sign for todays tours. In addition no parking in NYBG area because Fordham graduation is using the Garden. Pretty empty, but it is earlier than usual for me. Decided that even if sitting in traffic longer, I’d have more time to note blooming plants and try to identify what didn’t come easily, so left half an hour earlier than usual.  Felt bad last time that my obsession with identifying plants took precedence somewhat over the tour visitors. Mea culpa. Today the last tour for me of this season. Family next week and hot summer during July and August that I can’t cope with.

Even with an hour and ten minutes before the tour starts, I did not get through the whole NPG. One reason is a lucky one, that Curator Michael Hagen was working there, 

and therefore available to have his wonderful brain picked. And his being such a nice guy. Thanks, Michael for all your kind availability.

With running back and forth to check with him, and doing the tour, the blog today is not in clear order of the tour. Interesting, what helped today was in advance looking at my list from a year ago, so that after the tour when Katherine joined me, I could come up with the name of the blooming trees with white flowers that you can see as you approach tbe NPG.  Name? Elderberry. It might be a good suggestion for all of us to look at the blooming list of the previous year. 

It does take a fair amount of time to list all the Latin names in addition to the common ones, but I will be a good girl for this last of the summer season blog and do that, especially because John is resting and the family have gone off to New York City.

Wild Bleeding Heart  Dicentra eximia

Beardtongue  Penstemon digitalis and P.Tubaeflorus

Phlox Phlox subulata  (I think) 

Phlox

False Sunflower Heliopsis helianthoides

Wild Quinine Parthenium integrifolium

Cranesbill/Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum  

Oakliaf Hydrangea Hydrangea quercifolia

Oakleaf Hydrangea

Wild Indigo Baptisia alba  (Pods and a few flowers left)

Eastern Beebalm/Purple Monarda    Monarda bradburiana    

“Virgin” Coneflower (Green centered white flower along approach)   

Virgin Coneflower

Milkweed   Asclepias syriaca               

(Notice the different leaves between Joe Pye Weed (rough) & Milkweed)    

leaves of Joe Pye Weed

Milkweed

Harebbell/Bellflower  Campanula rotundifolia

Bush’s Poppy Mallow Callirhoe bushii

Sweetbay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana

Rhododendrons

Maiden Pink (by Sweet Gum Tree & Umbrella plant) Dianthus deltoides

Maiden Pink

                 

Skullcap Scutellaria incana  (irregular purple flower with opposite leaves)

Skullcap

Bluestar Amsonia tabaermontana (a few left)

Golden Alexanders Zizia aurea  (a few left)

Columbine Aqualegia canadense (a few left)

Snakemouth Orchid Pegonia ophioglossoides (both white and lavender) (at water)

Pickerel Weed Pontederia cordata 

Barbara’s Buttons Marshallia grandiflora

Plymouth Rose Gentian  Sabatia kennedyana (by water)           

 

Plymouth Rose Gentian

Honeysuckle

Fleabane Erigeron 

Glade Mallow Napaea doiica

False Bugbane Trout bateria    (fuzzy white flower)     

False Bugbane

Black Cohosh  Actea racemosa                                        

Early Goldenrod Solidago

Early Goldenrod "candles"

Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia

Photo by Croton, stem through alternate leaf pale yellow is seed of Uvularia

Uvularia seed

Celandine Poppy Stylophorum dyphyllum

Spiderwort Tradescantia ohiensis

Early Goldenrod Solidago juncea

Culver’s Root Veronicastrum verginicum (after metal ramp, turn left, on right, fooled me from a distance,     not Cohosh) Thanks for the id, Gardener Meg

Culver's Root

Gardener Meg

Lizards Tail Sarurus cernuus   (in front of Culver’s Root)

Fire Pink Silene virginica (even though it’s red)

Onion Grass Allium

Butterfly Weed Asclepius tuberosa

Prickly Pear Cactus Opuntia humifusa

Needle-leaved Mountain Mint Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (at edgeof meadow) 

Needle-leaved Mountain Mint

Rattlesnake Master Eryngium yuccifolium

Lance-leaved Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata

Bristly Coneflower Echinacea paradoxa

Scorpionweed Phacelia  (There are 200 species, don’t know which in NPG)

Cow Vetch Vicia cracca  (in the meadow before this non-native gets weeded)

St John’s Wort  Hyericum perforatum

Narrow-leaved Blue-eyed Grass Sisyrinchium augusifolium

Stiff Tickseed Coreopsis palmata (Yellow flower in meadow)

Leadplant Amorpha canescense  (Purple) 

Leadplant

Elderberry Sambucus canadensis

(Not to confuse wild geranium with phlox at a quick look, notice leaves )

NPG April 16,23, 30 2015 from Archives

From Archives  Native Plant Garden 

NPG April 16, 2015 

Bloodroot 

Spice Bush

Yellow Trillium

Trout Lily

Twin Leaf

Wild Bleeding Heart

Dutchman’s Breeches

Virginia Bluebells

Skunk Cabbage

Globeflower Troilus

Shooting Star

Twinleaf Jeffersonai

NPG April 23, 2015 

Bloodroot

Yellow Trillium

Wild Bleeding Heart

Dutchman’s Breeches

Virginia Bluebells

Globeflower

Shadbush

Cutleaf Toothwort

Anemonella 

Merry Bells/Bellwort Uvularia

Violets

White Trillium

Bluets Houstonia

Pachysandra

Rue Anemone Anemonella thalictroides

Celandine Poppy

Toothwort (wide leaf)

Golden Alexanders

Leatherleaf Chamedaphne calculata

Spring Beauty Clintonia

NPG April 30, 2015

Bloodroot

Yellow Trillium

Wild Bleeding Heart

Dutchman’s Breeches

Virginia Bluebells

Globeflfower Troilus

Alumroot/Coral Bells Heuchera

Shadbush

Shooting Star

Cutleaf Toothwort

Anemonella 

Merry Bells/Bellwort Uvularia

Violets

White Trillium

Bluets Houstonia

Rue Anemone Anemonella thalictroides

Celandine Poppy

Golden Alexanders

Blueberry

Leatherleaf Chamedaphne calculata

Spring Beauty Clintonia

Jacob’s Ladder

Columbine

Swamp Pink Helonius bullata

Wild Ginger

Bearberry

Three weeks of surveys of arriving Garden visitors show NOT ONE person noticed the Tour Guide signs at the Conservatory entrance (and I didn’t either!). Suggestions from members included color, larger and placement where members enter the Member booth. The second sign at the Reflecting Pool is shorter and was hidden behind the shrubs.  I moved both before my tour, and then returned later to NYBG placement. Thanks to the tram personnel and ticket sellers for mentioning my tour, and maybe sign placement helped?  So here we go again.

NPG April 14, 2016

NPG April 14, 2016

Golden Alexanders

Wild Bleeding Heart

Blueberry

Shadbush

Dogwood

Virginia Bluebells

Columbine

Dandelion

Trillium: Toadshade

Trout Lily 

Spring Beauty

Violets

Bluets

Dutchmans Breeches

Bloodroot

Rue Anemone

Celandine Poppy

Leatherleaf

Globeflower

Prairie Smoke

Dog Hobble. 

Alabama Croton.

Fiddleheads

NPG New Plants Ordered for 2015 Season

Curator Michael Hagen reports:

Here’s the list of what I have ordered for the NPG this spring. Some of it is bulking what’s already there but some is new or a re-introduction:

Marcia says: I will try to do a full-page writeup of these, particularly the true natives, some of which I will find from my copies from the old NPG!  I’m really looking forward to seeing my “old friends” again, or more of them.   Remember that there are numerous common names for many of these plants, but I have added common names to the Latin names, both of which I believe should be used with visitors. (And for me who may come up with at least the easier common name when leading a tour.)

Asclepias sullivantii (Sullivan’s Milkweed)

Allium stellatum (Prairie Onion)

Anemone quinquefolia (Wood Anemone)

Boltonia asteroides (False Aster/White Doll’s Daisy/Snowbank)

Callirhoe involucrata (Wine Cups)

Calopogon tuberosus (Tuberous grasspink)

Campanula americana (American Bellflower/Tall Bellflower)

Campanula rotundifolia (Bluebell Bellflower)

Cardamine concatenata (Cutleaf toothwort)

Cardamine diphylla (Crinkleroot/Two-leaved Toothwort)

Carex appalachica (Appalachian Sedge)

Carex bromoides (Brome-like Sedge)

Carex pensylvanica (Cumberland Rosemary)

Cymophyllus fraserianus (Fraser’s Sedge)

Deschampsia flexuosa (Wavy Hairgrass)

Diarrhenna americana (American Beakgrain)

Dicentra canadensis (Squirrel Corn)

Echinacea paradoxa (Bush’s Coneflower/Yellow Coneflower)

Erythronium albidum (White Fawnlily/White Troutlily)

Eupatorium perfoliatum (Common Boneset)

Eurybia x herveyi ‘Twlight' (Aster Twilight)

Eryngium yuccifolium  (Rattlesnake Master)

Gaylussacia baccata (Black Huckleberry)

Geum triflorum  (Prairie Smoke)

Heliopsis helianthoides ‘Venus' (Venus False Sunflower)

Hexastylis virginiana (Virginia Heartleaf)

Hibiscus 'Luna White’ (Hardy hibiscus)

Hymenocallis caroliniana (Carolina Spiderlily)

Hypoxis hirsuta (Yellow Stargrass)

Iris verna (Dwarf Violet Iris)

Liatris spicata  (Gayfeather/Blazing Star)

Lilium michiganense (Michigan Lily)

Lilium superbum  (Turk’s-cap Lily)

Lobelia cardinalis  ((Cardinal Flower)

Lonicera hirsuta var. hirsuta (Hairy Honeysuckle)

Lonicera 'John Clayton’ (Trumpet Honeysuckle)

Medeola virginiana (Indian Cucumber-root)

Menyanthes trifoliata (Bogbean)

Monarda punctata  (Spotted Beebalm)

Muhlenbergia capillaris (Pink Hairgrass/Pink Muhly)

Orontium aquaticum  (Goldenclub)

Osmundastrum claytonianum (Tagawa)

Parthenium integrifolium  (Wild Quinine)

Pediomelum subacaule (Nashville Breadroot)

Penstemon cobaea (Foxglove Beardtongue)

Penstemon hirsutus pygmaeus (Hairy Penstemon/beardtongue)

Penstemon 'Husker Red’ (Tall White Beardtongue)

Penstemon pallidus (Pale Beardtongue)

Penstemon smallii (Small’s Beardtongue)

Phlox 'Blue Paradise’ (Phlox Blue Paradise)

Phlox glaberrima 'Anita Kistler’ (Smooth Phlox)

Phlox paniculata 'Flame White’ (White Flame Phlox)

Polemonium reptans  (Jacob’s Ladder)

Polypodium virginianum (Rock polypody)

Pontederia cordata (Pickerelweed)

Rhododendron viscosum  (Swamp Azalea)

Rhynochospora latifolia (Whitetop Sedge)

Rosa virginiana (Virginia Rose)

Sanguinaria canadensis  (Bloodroot)

Sedum ternatum 'Larinem Park’ (Woodlands Stonecrop)

Silene regia  (Royal Catchfly)

Sisyrinchium angustifolium  (Narrow-leaf Blue-eyed Grass)

Solidago shortii 'Solar Cascade’ (Solar Cascade Goldenrod)

Symphyptrichum laeve var. laeve (Smooth Blue Aster)

Thalictrum dioicum  (Early Meadow-Rue)

Tiarella ‘Brandywine’(Brandywine Foam Flower)

Trillium cuneatum (Sweet Betsy Trillium)

Verbena hastata  (Blue Vervain)

Vernonia angustifolia 'Plum Peachy’ (Narrow-leaf Ironweed)

Vernonia glauca (Broadleaf Ironweed)

Veronicastrum ‘Fascination' (Culver’s Root/Bowman’s Root/‘Fascination’)

Viola pedatifida (Prairie Violet)

Zizia aptera  (Heartleaf Golden Alexanders)

NPG June 25, 2015

NPG June 25, 2015 Blooming
Enjoy the summer. Report all sightings in NPG if you are there.
Newly blooming this week: Vervain, Hoary Skullcap Scutellaria incana, Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis, Glade Mallow Napaea Dioica.
Wild Bleeding Heart, Wild Quinine, Monarda/Beebalm, Beardtongue: Penstemon digitalis, P. cobaea, Whitewand P. tuberflorus, Golden Alexander (a little left), Phlox, Swamp Azalea (fooled me, looks like Honeysuckle), Columbine, Hydrangea, Rhododendron, Inkberry Ilex glabra, Black Cohosh/Bugbane Cimicifuga racemosa, Meadow Rue, Barbara’s Buttons, Pitcher Plants, Pickerel Weed, Ladies Tresses Spiranthes, Plymouth Gentian Rose Sabatia, Common Rush Juncus effusus, Black-eyed Susan, Milkweed, Spiderwort, Poppy Mallow, Stiff Tickseed (that was the 8 petaled yellow flower questioned last week), Butterfly Weed, Lanceleaved Coreopsis, Yellow Coneflower, Narrowleaf Mountain Mint, Fire Pink, Celandine Poppy, Queen Columbine, Hairy Chickweed,Leatherleaf,Winterberry. 

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                                       Black CohoshBugbane Cimicifuga racemosa

                                                MILKWEED ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA
CONSIDERED THE SECOND MOST INTRICATE FLOWER AFTER ORCHIDS. IN WW II THE FLOSS FROM MILKWEED PODS WAS USED TO FILL LIFE JACKETS FOR AIRMEN WHO WOULD BE KEPT AFLOAT IF THEIR PLANES WENT DOWN IN THE OCEAN. IMPORTANT FOR MONARCH BUTTERFLIES WHO LAY THEIR EGGS ON THIS PLANT AND FROM WHICH THEY GET THEIR POISONOUS QUALITIES.

Sorry the photo of the Glade Mallow couldn't be transferred, and that's too bad because June 15, 2016 the name Glade Mallow Napaea dioica was hard for me to recall.