Foamflower
Notes and Changes since last report
- It was 58°F, partly cloudy and breezy at 1:00 PM on May 12, 2021.
- This week's trail report covers the Cary Pines Trail side of the trail system.
- Not much butterfly news, but more birds were back including warbling vireo and scarlet tanager.
- Yellow lady's slipper had some buds today; they could open later this week, certainly by next week.
The Trails
- Starting up the Cary Pines from Trail Marker 10, one would encounter starflower blooming close to the ground.
- It was scattered among the Canada mayflower, also just starting to open.
- Something dropped into the middle of the trail: a scarab beetle beetle of some kind.
- Bracken was getting tall and was reaching into the trail from the side.
- That tiny point of purple in the background was gaywings. That was doing well now.
- Off the corner of the Fern Glen parking lot stood a pink shrub: an azalea.
- The blossoms were just right in the afternoon sun.
- That and striped maple had started last week.
- At the bottom of the Roeller Bed, starry false Solomon's-seal was doing well this year.
- Jacob's ladder could be found in a number of locations.
- In the limestone cobble, nodding trillium could be compared with the neighboring pale form of red trillium.
- And our three Uvularia species were all blooming: large-flowered bellwort was still going pretty well.
- The smaller, paler bellwort, or perfoliate bellwort, had started later and is always less abundant here.
- Smallest is wild oats, or sessile-leaved bellwort. Its leave does not surround the flower stalk.
- Nothing looks like foamflower.
- Large-flowered trillium looks like a different plant as it turns pink with age.
- It was nice to see Solomon's seal in action - the deer like it very much, too.
- Nothing bothers red baneberry; that must be the "bane".
- Out in the poor fen, last week's first rhodora had been joined by more today.
- Behind it, bog rosemary had finally opened. It was just buds for weeks, but the buds were just fine, really...
- Blueberry also had had handsome, long lasting buds that were new open.
- Strange royal fern fiddleheads are hard to miss.
- Back on the trail along the edge, Canada violets were blooming.
- In the back of the 'Glen, yellow lady's slipper was promising flowers soon.
- Scattered behind them, dainty oak fern was nice to find again.
- Up front, towards the kiosk, chokecherry was attracting several insects.
- Along the pond, golden ragwort was bright and cheery.
- Hidden at the back of the pond was an unassuming little tree.
- The little bell like flowers will become little boxes rattling with seeds.
- A bald-faced hornet was not hiding on a fern below.
- Next week: the Wappinger Creek Trail side of the trail system.
Sightings
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