January 17, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a cryptic mammal with some crazy physiology, the Southern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina carolinensis). The Southern Short-tailed...
January 10, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the pine of the high hills, Shortleaf Pine (Pinus echinata). Shortleaf Pine is found throughout the...
January 3, 2025
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re glancing up at our ever present warbler of the evergreens, the Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus). From year...
December 27, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a festive forest fern, Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides). Christmas Fern is a species of evergreen fern...
December 20, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re looking and listening for a pair of wonderfully weird water birds, our Loons (Gavia spp.). Here on...
Saltmeadow and Sand Cordgrasses
December 13, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’ve got a pair of native clumping grasses, Saltmeadow Cordgrass (Sporobolus pumilus) and Sand Cordgrass (Sporobolus bakeri). Both...
MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrow
December 6, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the Lowcountry’s local marsh sparrow, the MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrow (Ammospiza maritima macgillivraii). Within the winter’s salt marsh...
November 29, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s our most widespread Lichen in the Lowcountry, Bushy Beard Lichen (Usnea strigosa). Beard Lichens can be found...
November 22, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, we have the bane of marsh birds, the wraith of the marsh, the Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius). The...
