Native Plant Marcia: August 14, 2016 NPG tours (NYBG)

August 14, 2016

Native Plant Garden tours, New York Botanical Garden

Guest post by Joel Nevis y Flores

Sunny summer day with medium to high pollens of grasses, nettle and ragweed. High was 93F with a real feel of 102F; the City had issued an excessive heat warning, an air quality advisory, and a thunderstorm warning. Humidity was comfortable at 50%. Besides a female duck and a small turtle, here is what I encountered at the Native Plant Garden on my two tours:

photo by Joel A. Nevis y Flores, 2016, for public use only with acknowledgement

Turtle and dragonfly

Cardinal Flower and Duck

Allium (maybe Allium canadense)

Andropogon gerardii (Big Bluestem)

Aralia racemosa (American spikenard)

Aronia berries (Chokeberry)

Asclepias incarnata flowers and seedpod (Swamp Milkweed)

Asclepias syriaca seedpod and seeds (Common Milkweed)

Asclepias tuberosa flowers and seedpods (Butterflyweed)

Athyrium angustum (Northern Ladyfern)

Baptisia alba seeds (Shoefly, White Wild Indigo)

Callirhoe involucrata (Poppy Mallow)

Carex muskinguensis seeds (Palm Sedge)

Chionanthus virginicus fruit (Fringetree)

Cimicifuga racemosa (Black Cohosh) largely going to seed

Clematis ochroaleuca seeds (Curlyheads)

Conoclinium coelestinum (Blue mistflower)

Coreopsis (Tickseed), well, just one in bloom

Deschampsia cespitosa seeds (Tufted Hair Grass)

Dicentra eximia (Wild Bleeding Heart)

Doellingeria umbellata (Flat-Topped Aster)

Echinacea (Purple Coneflower)

Eryngium yuccifolium (Rattlesnake Master)

Eupatorium perfoliatum (Boneset)

Euphorbia corollata (Flowering Spurge)

Eurybia divaricata (White Wood Aster)

Eurybia spectabilis (Eastern Showy Aster)

Euthamia graminifolia (Flat-Top Goldentop, Grass-leaved Goldenrod) or Euthamia caroliniana (Slender Goldentop) — can you tell the difference from this photo?

Eutrochium (Joe-Pye Weed)

Franklinia alatamaha (Franklin Tree)

Gaillardia pulchella (Indian Blanket)

Gaultheria procumbens flowers and berries (American Wintergreen)

Halesia carolina seeds (Carolina Silverbell)

Helianthus divaricatus (Woodland Sunflower)

Heliopsis helianthoides (Ox Eye Sunflower)

Heuchera longiflora (Longflower Alumroot)

Hibiscus moscheutos (Rose Mallow)

Hydrangea quercifolia (Oakleaf Hydrangea))

Ilex glabra unripe berries (Inkberry)

Ilex opaca unripe berries (American Holly)

Ilex verticillata unripe berries (Winterberry)

Leucanthemum (Ox-Eye Daisy)

Liatris aspera (Blazing Star)

Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)

Lobelia siphilitica alba (White Cardinal Flower or White Lobelia)

Lobelia siphilitica (Blue Lobelia)

Magnolia virginiana seeds (Sweetbay Magnolia)

Maianthemum racemosum berries (False Solomon’s Seal)

Maianthemum stellatum berries (Starry False Solomon’s Seal)

Mentha canadensis (Wild Mint)

Monarda didyma flowers and seeds (Scarlet Beebalm)

Monarda fistulosa (Wild Bergamot)

Monarda punctata (Spotted Beebalm)

Oenethera (Evening Primrose) with flowers closed during the day

Oncopeltus fasciatus (Large Milkweed Bug)

Osmunda regalis (American Royal Fern)

Oxalis stricta (Yellow Sorrel)

Parthenium integrifolium (Wild Quinine)

Phacelia (Scorpionweed)

Phlox paniculata (Garden Phlox)

Pogonia ophioglossoides (Rose Pogonia, Snake-Mouth Orchid)

Polygonatum berries (Solomon’s Seal)

Pontederia cordata (Pickerelweed)

Pycnanthemum muticum (Short-Toothed Mountain Mint)

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (Narrowleaf Mountain Mint)

Ratibida pinnata (Yellow Coneflower, Prairie Coneflower)

Rhexia virginica flowers and seeds (Virginia Meadowbeauty)

Rhododendron maximum seeds (Rosebay Rhododendron)

Rhododendron prunifolium (Plum Leaf Azalea) rare in nature with a very small natural distribution in Georgia and Alabama. It is under consideration for the Endangered Species List by the federal government, so I suppose that is why we have a species not in our normal range of northeast North America. This is one of the last rhododendrons to bloom, and it can be found on the rosebay path.