May 21, 2021
The week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s another often overlooked weed with some surprising culinary character, Dune Groundcherry (Physalis walteri). Dune Groundcherry, AKA Walter’s...
May 14, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a secretive, jewel encrusted reptile on display; except it’s not the long and rattling one, it’s...
May 7, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a common wildflower of spring, Cut-leaf Evening-Primrose (Oenothera laciniata). Cut-leaf Evening-Primrose is a common herbaceous annual...
April 30, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, we have a pair of indistinguishable butterflies. A set of Satyrs so subtly distinct it took a genetic...
April 23, 2021
This Week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the crown jewel of the swamp, Virginia Iris (Iris virginica). Through the columns of Gums and...
April 16, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the unkillable Killifish and the fodder of fishermen, the Mummichog or Mud Minnow (Fundulus heteroclitus). The...
April 9, 2021
This Flora and Fauna Friday it’s an understory florally whorlly pendulous tubular wildflower, Woodbine or Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens). Up the Wax-myrtle, over the Yaupon,...
April 2, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re bob-bob-bobbing along with the American Robin (Turdus migratorius). The American Robin is our largest member of the...
March 26, 2021
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s another subterranean parasitic plant, Bearcorn (Conopholis americana). Bearcorn, AKA Squawroot or American Cancer-Root, is a non-photosynthetic, parasitic,...
