Lettered Olive

April 11, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we find washed ashore a scribbled scroll of shell telling a tale from our natural history, the Lettered...

Bluff Oak

April 4, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have an imperiled tree that, like sand sliding off a bluff, is silently slipping away from our...

Summer Tanager

March 28, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s our other red bird, the Summer Tanager (Piranga rubra). Draw a line to a branched tine high...

Goldenclub

March 21, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s an early to rise and always dry, wetland wildflower, Goldenclub (Orontium aquaticum). Goldenclub is found throughout the...

Henry’s Elfin

March 14, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s one of our earliest butterflies of the year, an oft hard to find hardwood flutter-by, the Henry’s...

Haircap Moss

March 7, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have nature’s shag carpet, Haircap Mosses (Polytrichum spp.). We have two fairly abundant species of Haircap Moss...

Yellow-throated Warbler

February 28, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, it’s our sulfur throated spring songster, the Yellow-throated Warbler (Setophaga dominica). On the threshold of spring, a monochrome...

Crowpoison

February 21, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s one of our widespread winter wildflowers, Crowpoison (Nothoscordum bivalve). Crowpoison, also called False-Garlic, is a common wildflower...

Orioles

February 14, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re keeping an eye out for a radiant pair of fruit-loving birds, the Orioles, genus Icterus. Here in...

Little-Brown-Jugs

February 7, 2025

This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a relict plant of our wild past, Heartleaf Ginger, AKA Little-Brown-Jugs (Asarum arifolium). Heartleaf Ginger is...

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