NYBG Native Plant Garden May 15, 2016

NPG Sunday, May 15, 2016

An extra trip to the Native Plant Garden to trail knowledgeable Joel on his 12:30 tour.  “What a difference a day makes...”  Three days after my tour on a lovely day, today was cold, 52 degrees, cloudy, very windy and damp with a few drizzles. Many people come on weekends and it is early in the Impressionist show; special shows bring in visitors.

Joel Nevis y Flores

Several today asked why they can’t learn online at home what tours are scheduled for what areas so they can plan ahead. We need to take action on this good idea.

No need to repeat the whole list of blooming plants from May 12th, but changes from that list could be helpful:

No more Globeflowers Troilus laxus to be seen. 

Four missing from May 12 list and still there today: 

 Scorpion Weed Phacelia [Flower color similar to Wild Geranium and Jacob’s Ladder, leaves similar to Wild Geranium but the flowers profuse and shapes different.]

 Golden Club Orontium seen in the highest area of the water feature which I may have missed earlier, an old favorite reminding me of a pencil, visible in the Old NPG looking off the wooden bridge over the creek.

 Green’nGold Chrisogonum is up the steps and along the earth path where I did not go on Thursday.

 Curlyhead Clematis ochraleuca was there but not on the list.

 Camas Camassia scilloides  Lavender bloom by water’s edge easy for me to mistake for Larkspur.

 Cornus sericea Red Osier Dogwood shrub with stripes in the leaves and a cluster of white flowers is seen in at least three different places.

Newly blooming :

Fringe Tree Chionanthus virginicus down the steps by the Education Building.

Wild Quinine Parthenium integrifolium to the right of the Split Rock

Ready to bloom :

Lance-leaved Coreopsis Coreopsis lanceolata

Mountain Laurel Kalmia latifolia

Unwanted plants waiting to be weeded: Garlic Mustard, Greater Celandine, Dandelions

Wild Hyacinth, Camassia scilloides

Wild Quinine Parthenium integrifolium

Scorpion Weed Phacelia

Green ’n Gold Chrisogonum virginianum

Curlyhead Clematis ochraleuca

Golden Club Orontium aquaticum

Red Osier Dogwood Cornus sericea 

Non-native, invasive plant:

Greater Celandine Chelidonium majus

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NYBG NPG May 5, 2016

NPG MAY 5, 2016   Today felt cold, cloudy, 50 degrees. Six visitors on the tour. Blooming today:

At the top of the steps, in front of the rhododendron, a white bell-like flower whose name I used to know. [Clematis ochroleuca]
Alabama Croton - Croton alabamensis [on right metal descending path]
Alexanders, Golden Zizia aurea
Azaleas: Pinxter, Flame Azalea etc. Rhododendron
Beetleweed Galax urceolata
Bellwort Uvularia perfoliata
Black Chokeberry Aronia melancarpa
Blueberry Vaccinium augustifolium
Bluestar Amsonia tabemaemontana
Bluets Houstonia longifolia

Celandine Poppy Stylophorum dyphyllum

Chickweed, Hairy Cerastium arvense

Chokeberry, Black Aronia melanocarpa

Columbine Aquilegia canadense
     [looks like 5 doves; flower turns up when full of seeds which are disbursed by the wind]

Doghobble, Coastal  Leucothoe axillaris

Dogwood Cornus florida

Dwarf Crested Iris Iris cristata

Foamflower Tiarella cordifolia [the seedhead looks like a tiara]

Globeflower Troilus laxus  [look down where the boardwalk turns left]

Graves Beach Plum Prunus maritima  [past the meadow, on your right]
Green Hawthorne [budding]

Jacobs Ladder Polemonium van-bruntiae

Jacob’s Ladder, variegated Polemonium reptans

Lady Slipper, Yellow Cypripedium calceolus

Larkspur Delphinium tricorne

Leatherleaf Chamaedaphne calyculata

Mayapple Podophyllum peltatum [all poisonous parts except the ripe apple “beloved of pigs, raccoons and small boys” (Asa Gray)]

Phlox Phlox stolonifera

Plume/False Solomon’s Seal Smilacina racemosa
     [called false because it did not have the medical properties of  Polygonatum biflorum]

Prairie Smoke Geum triflorum

Rhododendron

Robin’s Fleabane erigeron pulchellus

Rue Anemone Anemonella thalictroides, Thalictrum thalictroides

Scylla 

Shooting Star Primula meadia

Silverbell Halesia tetraptera

Solomon’s Seal Polygonatum biflorum

Starry False Solomon’s Seal Maianthemum stellatum

Stonecrop Sedum ternatum

Trillium, Red Trillium erectum

Trillium, White Trillium grandiflorum

Trillium, Yellow Trillium luteum

Turkey Corn Dicentra eximia  [Hey, we call it Wild Bleeding Heart]

Viola walteri

Violet, Birdfoot Viola pedata

Virginia Bluebells Mertensia virginica

Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum
     [don’t be fooled by similar flower, very different leaves on Jacob’s Ladder]

Wild Ginger Asarum arvense [a top favorite, spread the leaves to see the amazing flower]

Wild Indigo Baptisia alba
     [also called Shoofly because farmers used the flexible stem to chase flies from the horse.]

Yellow Mandarin/Fairybells Prosartes lanuginose

Croton alabamensis Alabama Croton

Globeflower Troilus laxus

Halesia tetraptera Silverbell

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