June 5, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the wild corndog: the Cattails of Genus Typha. Long tongues of green with glaucous sheen lap...
May 29, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a high flying easy to ID raptor: the Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). An adult Red-tailed Hawk...
May 22, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the more reserved relative of a certain attention-hungry, pastel-purple pendulous plant: the American Wisteria (Wistera frutescens)....
May 15, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have everybody’s favorite garden butterfly, the Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes). The Black Swallowtail is our smallest Swallowtail...
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...
