Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Tosohatchee WMA, February 11, 2013

Tosohatchee always surprises. Two new plants for this blog: yellow butterwort and yellow jessamine. As in other visits to Tosohatchee, wildflower hunts were limited to the roadsides and near-roadsides.
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Hedge false bindweed (Calystegia sepium, Convolvulaceae)
Native

North side of Beehead Rd. Arrow-shaped leaves.
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Canadian toadflax (Linaria canadensis, Plantaginaceae)
Native

North side of Beehead Rd. This linaria has long spurs.
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Smallfruit beggarticks (Bidens mitis, Asteraceae)
Native

North side of Beehead Rd. This wildflower is easily identified by its bracts: outer ones are green and spatula shaped, inner ones are speckled and translucent.
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Leavenworth's tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii, Asteraceae)
Native

North side of Beehead Rd. Identified by translucent bracts.
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Narrowleaf blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Iridaceae)
Native

West side of St. Nicholas Rd.
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Yellow butterwort (Pinguicula lutea, Lentibulariaceae)
Native

A carnivorous plant. Tiny insects are trapped on the sticky basal leaves and digested. Found about a dozen plants on the east side of St. Nicholas Rd, near the ditch. In this same general area, on January 20, 2012, we found a lavender-colored butterwort: small butterwort, Pinguicula pumila.
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Yellow jessamine Gelsemium semperviren, Gelsemiaceae)
Native

Found on the south side of Power Line Rd, not far from the intersection with St. Nicholas Rd. This is the first time I've seen yellow jessamine in Tosohatchee, although it's probably present around margins of swamps. Yellow jessamine has been in bloom along SR 520 and SR 528 since about mid-January.
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2 comments:

  1. I really like the smallfruit beggarticks!

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  2. The addition of the Wildflower Portraits link at the top is a great idea - good luck getting it down to 100 :)

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