Natives
Groundsel can be found in Holts Landing State Park. Photos by Susu Fiske Groundsel: A highly-tolerant fall-blooming native Also called sea-myrtle, consumption weed, eastern baccharis, salt marsh-elder and salt bush, native groundsel is found all over this area, and I love that it is fall-blooming, with densely clustered white flowers. Groundsel (Baccharis halimifolia L.) […]
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Prairie dropseed – A grass with a fragrance? Sporobolus heterolepis or as we commonly know it, Prairie dropseed, does have a fragrance of a hint of coriander, cilantro or some say soap or buttered popcorn(hmm), licorice or even sunflower seeds (I guess we will have to find out for ourselves). Dropseed is a long-lived perennial […]
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Quercus phellos, Beech family (Fagaceae) One of my favorite trees, the Willow oak, is stunning in the fall! Willow oak trees are also called swamp willow and peach oak. They have spear-shaped leaves around 2–5″ long, like the weeping willow, each with a tiny bristle at the tip. They are beautiful oaks with willow-like […]
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It’s in full bloom now, so you may have noticed a small/medium sized tree blooming white along our roadsides the past few weeks – blooming white, in round flower clusters. It’s everywhere, up and down our major and minor roads and in fields. These trees are descendants of the Bradford Pear, a cultivated variety of […]
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