January 14, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a blossoming beach winter wildflower, Beach Evening-Primrose (Oenothera drummondii). Winter weather leaves us wishing to welcome warm...
January 7, 2022
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a clade of clingy calcareous crustaceans, Acorn Barnacles (Subclass Cirripedia, clade Sessilia). You read me right,...
December 31, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a curious coastal shrub that’s as good at inflicting pain as it is at killing pain, Southern...
December 24, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday is a big alabaster bird we’re all familiar with, the Great Egret (Ardea alba). The Great Egret is...
December 17, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a showy shrub of the Southeast, Hearts-a-Bustin’ (Euonymus americanus), AKA American Strawberry Bush. Hearts-a-Bustin’ is a...
December 10, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a bunch of black and yellow insects with bad attitudes, Yellowjackets (Vespula spp.) or colloquially referred to...
December 3, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday is a simple spindly shrub of scrublands and shaded woods, Winged Sumac (Rhus copallinum). Winged Sumac, AKA Shining...
November 26, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, it’s the haughty honkers who herald the holidays: the Canada Goose (Branta canadensis). Fall in the Lowcountry is...
November 19, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna we have a culturally significant coastal grass to discuss: Sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia filipes). Sweetgrass goes by many names but Sweetgrass...
