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 )