January 17, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday is the strangler of drainage, fallower of fields, and perforator of heels: American Sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua. Sweetgum is...
January 10, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a precocious and handsome arachnid: the Regal Jumper (Phidippus regius). The Regal Jumper is a large...
January 3, 2020
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s a flag-esque fungus flown in the frigid forests of Edisto: Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus). Ivory icicles sparkle...
December 27, 2019
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have a trio of diminutive, gravity-defying, gregarious songbirds: the Nuthatches of genus Sitta. Here in the eastern...
December 20, 2019
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have the one, the only, the irreplaceable, the Southern Live Oak (Quercus virginiana). From the twisted boughs...
December 13, 2019
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday it’s everyone favorite tree rat, the Eastern Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). Gray Squirrels are our most common and...
December 6, 2019
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday were learning to appreciate Spanish Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). The sight of Live Oaks festooned in Spanish Moss, an...
November 29, 2019
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we’re sobered by the sound of the hollow grieving moans of the Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura). The Mourning...
November 22, 2019
This week for Flora and Fauna Friday we have our native analogue of the iconic grass of the orient, River Cane (Arundinaria gigantea). River Cane...
