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...
November 15, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the field flown fuchsia floral flag of fall, Purpletop Tridens (Tridens flavus). Purpletop Tridens is a perennial...
Southern Two-striped Walkingstick
November 8, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, it’s a bean pole of an oversized odd ball bug, the Southern Two-striped Walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides). Walkingsticks belong...
November 1, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a little known midstory tree with flashy fall foliage, the Black Gum (Nyssa sylvatica). Black Gum is...
October 25, 2024
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the maniac of the marsh, the hysterical hen of the moor, the Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata). The...
