July 15, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a salty twining vine with an underappreciated role in coastal Monarch conservation, Gulf Coast Swallowwort (Pattalias...
July 8, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a collection of communally living insects who don’t always make the best neighbors, the Umbrella Paper...
July 1, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the most reviled vine in the Southeast, Poison-Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans). Much maligned, this unsuspecting vine seems...
June 24, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a lemon-lipped homewrecker of a bird, the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus). The Yellow-billed Cuckoo, colloquially known...
June 17, 2022
This week on Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a sassy shrub with a soft drink pedigree, Sassafras (Sassafras albidum). Sassafras is a large shrub or...
June 10, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a common but striking butterfly found in grasslands and fields, the Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia). The...
June 3, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday I spy a little lavender summer wildflower, Carolina Wild Petunia (Ruellia caroliniensis). Carolina Wild Petunia is a common...
May 27, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have our most abundant aquatic reptile, the Yellow-bellied Slider (Trachemys scripta scripta). The Yellow-bellied Slider is by...
May 20, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s none other than our towering titans of the swamp, the Cypresses (Taxodium spp.). Here in the Lowcountry...
