September 25, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a pink and prolific poisonous weed found throughout our state, Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). Pokeweed is a...
September 18, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, ubiquitous and unmistakable we have an energetic little insect: the Two-lined Spittlebug (Prosapia bicincta). The Two-lined Spittlebug is...
September 11, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, I have a hearty, hardwood-hungry, multi-layered mushroom for us to discover: Chicken-of-the-woods, Genus Laetiporus spp. We have a...
September 4, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it a towering purple pinnacled plant: Ironweed, genus Vernonia. Ironweeds are herbaceous perennial members of the Aster family....
August 28, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s an often overlooked cryptic critter, the Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus). The Eastern Fence Lizard is a...
August 21, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a genus of flowering plants quite unlike anything else in the Lowcountry, the Yuccas of genus...
August 14, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the symphony of the South, the orchestra of the orchard, and the chorus of the forest: the...
August 7, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a strange stickish sticking plant, Devil’s-Walking-Stick (Aralia spinosa). Devil’s-Walking-Stick is an interesting woody plant that grows...
July 31, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a prolific songbird of both marsh and farm, the Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus). A sharp “chek”...
