Wickham Park Wildflower Field Trip, June 4, 2011

On Saturday, June 4, I led a small group from the Conradina Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society on a field trip through  some of the woods on the north side of Wickham Park. My granddaughter Liz acted as my assistant. She checked off the plants as we came across them and called out the reference number to a comprehensive listing of plants I had previously found in Wickham Park, and which I had distributed to the group. On this day we found and identified about 50 plants. 

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Following are some photos from the tour. All photos, except the first group photo, were taken by Liz. The two flowers depicted are loblolly bay and tarflower. (Click to enlarge.)

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Following is a simplified map of the area of Wickham Park that we toured (click to enlarge).

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Following is a list of the wildflowers and other plants we saw during the field trip. The numbers in the left-hand column are references to a comprehensive list of all the plants I've found in the park.

Area 1 (north side of disc golf)
116	Southern beeblossom
52	Blackroot
152	Rough hedgehyssop
159	Elliot’s yelloweyed grass
44	Roserush
146	Loblolly bay
Area 2 (N-S ditch next to unpaved road into Youth Camping Area)
150	Capeweed, frog fruit
34	Oakleaf fleabane
122	American bluehearts
54	Creeping oxeye *
24	Spanish needles
36	False fennel
21	Common ragweed
22	Groundsel tree, saltbush
114	Pale meadowbeauty
67	Fourpetal St.John’s-wort
65	Coastalplain St.John’s-wort
51	Rosy camphorweed
2	Elderberry
Area 3 (along E-W ditch on south side of YCA)
32	Tall elephantsfoot
119	Peruvian primrosewillow *
140	Largeflower Mexican clover *
145	Rustweed
18	Gallberry
75	Rusty staggerbush
73	Tarflower
84	Partridge pea
Area 4 (N-S trail on east side of YCA)
140	Small leaf or Old-world climbing fern
105	American beautyberry
4	Adam’s needle
15	Florida milkweed **
9	Netted pawpaw
106	Wild pennyroyal
58	Pricklypear
Area 5 (E-W trail on north side of YCA)
7	Winged sumac
Area 6 (N-S trail that runs north from previous trail)
37	Mohr’s thoroughwort
Area 7 (trail to “boggy” area, runs west from previous trail)
13	Button rattlesnakemaster
115	Yellow colicroot
99	Largeflower rosegentian
76	Fetterbush
77	Shiny blueberry
130	Yellow milkwort **
81	Chinese tallowtree *
Area 8 (continuaton of N-S trail, Area 6, then turn east)
141	Florida beargrass **
Area 9 (N-S sandy trail, eventually rejoins Area 4)
50	Narrowleaf silkgrass
63	Florida scrub frostweed
64	Pineland pinweed
60	Pineland scalypink
77	Lesser Florida spurge **
61	Gopher apple
23	Yellow buttons
53	Chapman’s goldenrod

* = non-native; ** = Florida endemic; 6 June 2011

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