Native/Invasive

Hepaticas on the Home Front

– Posted in: Native/Invasive

Almost a month after I visited Tennessee, I walked down our country road to the same general area where I had seen trilliums and other spring ephemerals in abundance last year, and discovered hepaticas growing there as well. I must have visited this area too late to see them last year. Besides white, I saw [...]

Wetland Wildflowers: Wildflower Wednesday

– Posted in: Native/Invasive

Our property is divided by a brook running southwest to northeast. Shortly after the brook enters our property the land flattens out and the brook fills it up. When we first moved here we called it the pond, because it was a fairly big, though shallow, expanse of water. Maybe it was the drought, or [...]

Celandine or Celandine Poppy?: Wildflower Wednesday

– Posted in: Native/Invasive, What's up/blooming

There are three plants with yellow flowers called celandine in the British Isles: the Greater Celandine (Chelidonium majus), the Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), and the Celandine Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum). Over here on the other side of the pond, the lesser celandine is not nearly as common as other buttercups and isn't mentioned much in North [...]