May 8, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have some wiry white wildflowers of the Orchid variety, the Ladies’-tresses of genus Spiranthes. Ladies’-tresses are by...
May 1, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a prehistoric looking predatory turtle: the Eastern Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina). The Eastern Snapping Turtle is our...
April 24, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday is an herb with musical morphology: Lyre-leaf Sage (Salvia lyrata). Lyre-leaf Sage is a short perennial in the...
April 17, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a ruddy little shorebird with a taste for roe and a pension for long-distance travel: the...
April 10, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have spring’s climbing coral choir: Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata). Crossvine is a high climbing native vine that can...
April 3, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have an insect you can’t possibly miss, the Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae). The Cloudless Sulphur is a...
March 27, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a squat, native, strawberry-blossomed shrubbery: Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia). Buckeyes are a genus of trees native...
March 20, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s the streaky sneaky inquisitive wide-eyed owl of copse and glade, the Barred Owl (Strix varia). Barred Owls...
March 13, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the South Carolina state flower: Yellow Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens). Yellow Jessamine is an evergreen perennial vine...
