Chicken-of-the-woods

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...

Ironweed

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....

Eastern Fence Lizard

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...

Yuccas

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...

Annual Cicadas

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...

Devil’s-Walking-Stick

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...

Red-winged Blackbird

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”...

American Burnweed

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...

Southern Toad

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...

Ebony Jewelwing

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...

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