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”...
July 24, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday, we have another ubiquitous but unimpressive weed that I feel we all could overlook less, American Burnweed (Erechtites...
July 17, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the hoppinest amphibian this side of the Savannah, the Southern Toad (Anaxyrus terrestris). The Southern Toad is...
July 10, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the gem of the murky mire, the Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata). Fluttering on translucent onyx wings...
