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Ten days ago I took Charlie for a walk in the Stony Brook Reservation, and the woodland wildflowers were starting to come up. This is starflower (Trientalis borealis). Starflower blossoms are seven-pointed stars, pollinated by native bees (not honeybees).



These are the early flowers of blueberry. They turn whiter as they bloom, and there are hundreds of little blueberry shrubs throughout the Reservation. I'll have to return in late summer to see if I can find some ripe berries.


Here's the dry fruit of last year's spotted wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata). If you ask me "spotted" wintergreen is a bit of a misnomer.


Some cheerful looking moss sporangia.


More starflower.


I think this is bellwort Uvularia, as seen before here, but I'm not positive--this blossom is white, while the bellwort flower is supposed to be yellowish.


This lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium) is not yet blooming.


This flower is mysterious to me.


The pink globules here are Dibaeis baeomyces, called "pink earth" by some and "bubblegum lichen" by my beloved wife.


These are the flowers of the little tiny alpine oaks in the high parts of the Reservation.


Next to the oak was a small tree or shrub with these flowers--it's in the apple family, but that's all I can tell you.


A fallen log was bristling with British soldiers.


Flowering dogwood is such a common urban and suburban cultivated tree that it's interesting to come across one in the woods. My first thought is that it must have been planted there, back when the forest had another use, but they had to have a role in the ecosystem before humans started transplanting it.

Date: 2012-05-16 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com
pictures 1 and 5 are the same.

don't tell me that doesn't look like bubblegum!

Date: 2012-05-16 09:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com
Fixed, ty

I won't

Date: 2012-05-16 02:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizziebelle.livejournal.com
I used to walk there a lot when I lived in West Roxbury, and I remember that dogwood tree! I thought it was odd being in the woods like that, too. I remember all the blueberries, too. :)

Date: 2012-05-16 04:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Starflower is one of my favorites.

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