Native Plant Garden: May 28, 2015

From my archives:  Native Plant Garden, New York Botanical Garden
Marcia Strean

May 28, 2015

Though a hot and humid, day, cloudy turning to sun, a good group of visitors on my tour. Most of the plants in bloom are the same as the previous week, which are listed, half a dozen removed because they finished blooming, but newly blooming this week are Spiranthes (Ladies’ Tresses) by the Pitcher Plants, Field Hawkweed (Hieracium), Beardtongues (Penstemon digitalis etc.), Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia), Iris (numerous species), Canada Anemone (Anemone canadensis), a few Dutchman’s Breeches, Sheep Laurel (Kalmia augustifolia), Robin’s Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus) which I forgot to list last week, Philadelphia Fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus), Lanceleaf Coreopsis, Wild Bleeding Heart, Wild Geranium, Golden Alexanders, Wild Yellow indigo Baptisia, Wild Blue Indigo, Columbine, Bowmans Root (Gillenia trifoliatus), Narrowleaf Blue-eyed Grass, Blueberry (a few flowers), Bluestar, Shooting Star, Foamflower, False Solomon’s Seal, Yellow Trillium (Trillium luteum), Lady Slipper, American Umbrellaleaf (limited flowers), Trillium (hybrid double), Solomon’s Seal, Rue Anemone, Wild Ginger, Phlox, Cinnamon Fern, Royal Fern, Azaleas, Virginia Bluebells (one flower—“beggars can’t be choosers”), Pitcher Plants yellow and red, Rhododendron, Common Rush Juncus effusus, Leatherleaf, Wild Quinine, Spiderwort, Cow Vetch, Prairie Smoke, Red Clover, Dwarf Beardtongue, and Queen Columbine.

A few docents indicated an interest in the “stories.”

Wild Bleeding Heart: the honeybee’s proboscis is 6 mm, too short to reach the nectar; requires the bumblebee with an 8 millimeter proboscis to fertilize the plant.

Wild Bleeding Heart (Dicentra eximia)

Solomon’s Seal so-called because the root is in the shape of the seal Solomon used to wax seal his missives. False Solomon’s Seal called false because it did not have the expected medicinal properties.

Beardtongue has five stamens, one of which is fuzzy or “bearded,” so it gets its name from that. More interesting, the many species of Beardtongue are each visited by different insects and do not hybridize. 

Beardtongue Penstemon (Penstemon digitalis)

Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) right next to boardwalk 

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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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NPG May 15, 2016

New York Botanical Garden's Native Plant Garden - May 15, 2016

Guest post by Joel Nevis y Flores

A cool day in the upper 50's F, cloudy with passing sprinkles. I had twelve people on my 12:30p tour and 8 people on my 2:30p tour. Here is what we saw in bloom:

Acorus calamus Sweet flag
Amsonia tabernaemontana Bluestar

Amsonia tabernaemontana

Anemonella thalictroides, formerly Thalictrum thalictroides Rue Anemone

Anemonella thalictroides

Aquilegia canadensis Eastern columbine by the entrance and elsewhere throughout the NPG
Aquilegia chrysantha Golden columbine in the Glade

Aquilegia chrysantha

Asarum canadense Wild Ginger

Asarum canadense

Baptisia alba White wild indigo by the entrance and lower basin of the water feature
Camassia scilloides Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth

Carex muskingumensis Palm sedge
Carex pensylvanica Oak sedge in the woodland garden
Cerastium arvense villosissimum Hairy field chickweed grows in serpentine soils that are high in nickel and chromium but low in nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus, and otherwise toxic for other plants; look for these on the rocks near the educational pavilion

Cerastium arvense villosissimum

Chionanthus virginicus Fringetree by the education pavilion
Chrysogonum virginianum Green and gold on the unpaved rosebay trail
Clematis ochroleuca Curlyheads
Cornus florida Flowering dogwood
Cornus sericea Red osier dogwood
Crataegus viridis Green hawthorn by the school group entrance
Cypripedium parviflorum Yellow lady's slipper
Cypripedium parviflorum parviflorum Lesser yellow lady's slipper
Delphinium tricorne Dwarf larkspur
Dicentra eximia Wild Bleeding heart
Diphylleia cymosa Umbrella leaf in the Glade
Erigeron Daisy fleabane

Erigeron

Geranium maculatum Cranesbill geranium
Geum triflorum Prairie smoke by the Split Rock
Gymnocarpium dryopteris Oak Fern
Half High Blueberry
Houstonia caerulea Azure bluets
Iris cristata Dwarf crested iris in the Glade
Iris hookeri Beach-head iris - I am not sure of this identification but these are growing in the water of the wetland garden
Leucothoe axillaris Doghobble, Fetterbush
Maianthemum racemosum False Solomon's Seal
Maianthemum stellatum Starry false Solomon's Seal
Mertensia virginica Virginia bluebells had only a few flowers left
Orontium aquaticum Golden club in the wetland garden
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum Cinnamon fern
Parthenium integrifolium Wild Quinine near the Split Rock
Penstemon hirsutus Hairy beardtongue by and on the exposed Manhattan schist
Phacelia bipinnatifolia Fernleaf phacelia, purple phacelia in the Glade
Phlox divaricata Blue phlox
Plantago lanceolata English plantain, narrowleaf plantain
Podophyllum peltatum Mayapple shows a few flowers still but the fruits are now growing
Polemonium caeruleum Jacob's ladder
Polemonium reptans  Creeping Jacob's ladder
Polygonatum biflorum Solomon's Seal
Primula meadia Shooting stars in white and pink
Prunus maritima Beach plum by the stream connecting to the Rock Garden
Rhododendron canescens Pinxter Azalea
Rhododendron minus minus Piedmont rhododendron, Carolina rhododendron
Sarracenia flava Yellow pitcher plant
Sarracenia purpurea Purple pitcher plant, northern pitcher plant
Sedum nevii Nevius Stonecrop
Sisirynchium angustifolium Narrowleaf blue-eyed grass shows are few blossoms in the Glade but not blooming up by the Rock Garden yet
Stylophorum diphyllum Celandine poppy had maybe two flowers left; its seed pods are becoming prominent

Stylophorum diphyllum

Tiarella cordifolia  Foamflower

Tiarella cordifolia

Toxicodendron radicans Poison ivy as you enter the woodland garden
Tradescantia Spiderwort in the meadow

Tradescantia Spiderwort

Trillium flexipes Bent trillium
Trillium erecta Stinking Benjamin
Trillium grandiflorum White trillium; lots of the double white trillium are in bloom
Trillium luteum Yellow trillium
Trillium recurvatum Bloody butcher, prairie trillium

Trillium recurvatum

Uvularia grandiflora Bellwort
Vaccinium angustifolium Lowbush blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosum Northern highbush blueberry
Viola blanda Sweet white violet - not sure of the species but I like the nectar lines for the bees

Viola blanda

Viola walteri Walter’s violet, Appalachian violet
Zizia aptera Heartleaf golden alexanders

The NYBG gardeners will be busy with these non-natives:

Chelidonium majus Greater celandine is an invasive lookalike for Stylophorum diphyllum Celandine poppy until the seeds form
Convallaria majalis Lily of the valley
Oxalis acetosella Wood sorrel, white oxalis
Oxalis stricta Yellow woodsorrel
Rumex acetosella Sheep's sorrel, red sorrel see last post
Taraxacum officinale Dandelion

Here is one I could not identify. It was in the woodland on the rose bay path near a patch of mayapples.

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