In the morning we had a wilflower hike with Richard Clements, Mary Priestly, and Carol Ann McCormick on the Chestnut Top Trail (by the Townsend Y). There were a lot of people so we broke up into 3 groups and we were in Richard’s group. Here are the flora and fauna that we saw:
1. Maidenhair fern
2. Sweet Cicely
3. Crossvine
4. Spice bush (make tea out of the stems)
5. Solomon’s Plume
6. Solomon’s Seal (the root part looks like a seal of Solomon)
7. Bloodroot
8. Dutchman’s Pipe
9. Seersucker sedge
10. Miterwort
11. Stonecrop
12. Heuchera
13. Purple Phacelia
14. Golden Alexander
15. Hepatica
16. Beardtongue
17. Shaggybark hickory
18. Wild yam
19. Fragile Fern
20. Milkweed
21. Firepink (base of flower is sticky to catch flies so it is also called Catch Fly)
22. Summer bluet
23. Devil’s Walking Stick (has lots of thorns)
24. Rattlesnake weed
25. Cranefly Orchid
26. Galax
27. Little Brown Jug Ginger
28. Sassafras
29. Dwarf Iris
30. Maple Leaf Virburnum
31. Doghobble
32. Squaw root (some people call this bear root)
33. Black throated Green warbler
34. Ebony Spleenwort
35. Marginal wood fern
36. Yellow mandarin
37. Yellow wood
38. Evergreen wood fern
After lunch we did another wildflower hike on the Kanati Fork Trail with Mike Dennis and Leon Bates. The flowers we saw were:
1. Canada Mayflower
2. Solomon Seal
3. Indian Cucumber
4. NY Fern
5. Partridge berry
6. Snail (which is a hermaphrodite)
7. Sweet white violet
8. Witch hazel (curled leaves with a caterpillar in it)
9. Clinton lily (also called Speckled wood lily)
10. Striped Maple
11. Doghobble
12. Grapevine
13. Virginia Creeper
14. Foamflower
15. Rattlesnake plantain
16. Wide eyed vireo
17. Buffalo nut shrub
18. Wild yam
19. Wild hydrangea
20. Carex
21. Vasey’s trillium
22. Trillium grandiflorum
23. Rattlesnake fern
24. Trout lettuce (saxifrage)
25. Purple Meadow Parsnip
26. Toothwort
27. Christmas fern
28. Sassafras
29. Wood Bettony
30. Meadow rue
31. Showy Orchid
32. Umbrella Leaf
Over the past four days, I noticed it was easier and easier to identify some of the flowers. The repetition really helped and seeing the flowers sometimes in different stages and in different places helped me to generalize the knowledge that I had learned.
I think this was a worthwhile event to attend and if anyone is able to go next year, I would highly recommend it. The cost wasn’t too bad ($75 for the week plus hotel, which was $49 per night for us). I learned a lot and met lots of wonderful people!
Posted on the Successful Teaching Blog by loonyhiker (successfulteaching at gmail dot com).
Original photo by Pat Hensley
2 comments:
I've enjoyed--vicariously--these hikes. The tidbits about the plants is fascinating...Stunning fish with black walnut shells? Amazing!
@Sioux I thought they were awesome hikes and I love going with people who know what I'm flowers I'm looking at and what animals I'm seeing and hearing! The fish thing was interesting!
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