5-31 Harebell, Blue Flag Iris, 14-spotted Lady Beetles

5-31 Rocky banks, shores and meadows are home to Harebell, AKA Bluebell.

Blue Flag Iris thrives in marshes and wet meadows.

Propylea quatuordecimpunctata,(14-spotted Lady beetles, were busy mating - and not at all camera shy. John

5-30 Lance-leaved Violet, Bird's Foot Trefoil, Garter Snake, Painted Turtle, Fawn

5-30 Damp meadows and shores are home for the state listed rare Lance-leaved Violets.

Bird's Foot Trefoil is common in fields and along roadsides despite being an alien.

Warm temperatures have Garter Snakes and Painted Turtles active.

Some White-tailed fawns are now strong enough to follow their mothers. John

5-29 One-flowered Cancer Root, Indian Cucumber Root, Chokeberry

5-29 One-flowered Cancer Root is a parasitic plant of woods and thickets.

Rich moist woods are home to Indian Cucumber Root.

Chokeberry, a shrub, thrives in low woods and swamps. John

5-28 Least Hop Clover, Black Swallowwort, Thyme-leaved Sandwort, Bittersweet Nightshade

5-28 Fields and roadsides host Least Hop Clover.

Extremely invasive Black Swallowwort, AKA Strangle Vine, is a not very particular opportunist carpeting fields and roadsides especially where there is disturbed soil.

Thyme-leaved Sandwort inhabits fields and stony or gravelly places.

Bittersweet Nightshade drapes through moist thickets. John

5-27 Yarrow, Johnny-jump-ups, Knawel, Bristly Locust

5-27 Yarrow, AKA Milfoil, dots fields and roadsides.

Johnny-jump-ups, AKA Heart's Ease, has escaped from cultivation to lawns and dry sandy banks.

Dry sandy soil and waste places are favored by knawel. Its low spreading habits and its tiny white rimmed flowers doom it to obscurity yet it is a a wildflower.

Bristly Locust, planted ornamentally or as erosion control persists and spreads vegetatively - by root suckers - although most are sterile. John

5-26 Black Medick, Spiderlings

5-26 Roadsides and waste places host Black Medick, an alien best told from Hop Clover by its black seed pods.

A nursery web chock full of minute spiderlings tangles low growing vegetation. John

5-25 Common Speedwell, Bulbous Buttercup, Ox-eye Daisy

5-25 Common Speedwell will happily grow in woods, fields or gardens.

Fields and roadsides are home to Bulbous Buttercup.

Ox-eye Daisy, a long established alien, dots fields, meadows and roadsides. John

5-24 Field Mustard, Pineapple Weed, Sweet Woodruff, White-winged March Flies

5-24 Field Mustard, AKA Rape, crops up in cultivated grounds.

Barnyards, roadsides and fields are home to Pineapple Weed.

Sweet Woodruff is an occasional escape from cultivation.

Mating swarms of White-winged March Flies form over fields and other open spaces. March flies are annoying but otherwise harmless. John

5-23 Crimson Clover, Multiflora Rose

5-23 Winter rye sown in an agricultural field was apparently contaminated with the seeds of Crimson Clover.

Roadsides and damp thickets host aggressively invasive Multiflora Rose. John

5-22 Virginia Waterleaf, Yellow Iris, Lesser Stitchwort

5-22 Virginia Waterleaf colonizes rich woods.

Marshes and stream banks host Yellow Iris, a somewhat troublesome garden escape.

Lesser Stitchwort can be seen in fields, meadows and damp ditches. John

5-21 White Clover, Cow Vetch, Oak Drops, Rabbit

5-21 White Clover is nearly synonymous with grassy areas.

Fields and roadsides are prime habitat for Cow Vetch.

Parasitic Oak Drops are primarily but not exclusively associated with oak trees.

Brushy areas are prime Rabbit habitat. John

5-20 Hoary Alyssum, Round-leaved Ragwort, Common Flax, Yellow Goatsbeard

5-20 Dry fields and waste places may be overrun by Hoary Alyssum.

Woods and rocky banks host Round-leaved Ragwort.

Common Flax is an occasional escape found in waste places.

Fields and roadsides are prime habitat for Yellow Goatsbeard. John

5-19 Red-osier Dogwood, Alternate-leaved Dogwood, Ragged Robin

5-19 In wet areas and along shores Red-osier Dogwood is flowering.

A;ternate-leaved Dogwood prefers borders and woods.

Fields, meadows and roadside ditches are home to Ragged Robin, AKA Cuckoo Flower. John

5-18 Yellow Wood Sorrel, Sleepy Catchfly, White Campion

5-18 Yellow Wood Sorrel is a common weed of gardens and roadsides.

Dry woods and waste places are home to Sleepy Catchfly.

Fields, edges and waste places are home to White Campion. John

5-17 Blue-eyed Grass, Common Dewberry, Greater Stitchwort

5-17 Fields and Meadows are home to Blue-eyed Grass.

Common Dewberry (a blackberry) snakes through old fields, open woods and waste places.

Greater Stitchwort, a garden escape, is flowering along a nearby road.