6-30 Spotted Touch-me-not

 6-30

Spotted Touch-me-not favors moist, shaded places.

False Pimpernel likes wet sites often in mud at the water's edge.

John

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6-29 Bracted Plantain

 6-29

Bracted Plantain is found in areas with dry sandy soil.

John

6-28 Musk Flower

 6-28

Musk Flower is a rare plant found in seepage areas.

Spiked Lobelia favors dry fields and woods.

And saprophytic Indian Pipes are a strictly woodland species.

John

6-27 Red Campion

 6-27

Red Campion shows up occasionally in fields and waste areas.

Enchanter's Nightshade is a common plant of woods and thickets.

And Low Baby's Breath is an escape that crops up in dry compacted soils, often roadsides.

John

6-26 Shinleaf

 6-26

Shinleaf, AKA Pyrola, is a common woodland species.

Pipsissewa, AKA Princess Pine, favors dry woods.

And Swamp Dewberry, a trailing variety of blackberry, is happy in swamps, open woods and clearings.

John

6-25 Canada Lily

 6-25

Canada Lily, AKA Meadow Lily,  grows in wet meadows and swamps.

Marsh Hedge Nettle, AKA Woundwort, is a plant of swamps, shores and wet meadows.

And Galinsoga, AKA Quickweed, is a pest of gardens and similar disturbed areas.

John

6-24 Bristly Sarsaparilla

 6-24

Bristly Sarsaparilla likes dry sandy places, often roadsides.

Goldenrod Crab Spiders can change from yellow to white allowing them to blend with a larger array of flowers.

Dobsonflies are making nuptial flights. This male is close to 4 inches long!

And Winterberry, AKA Black Alder, is flowering in damp thickets.

John

6-23 Basswood

 6-23

Basswood, AKA Linden, is a component of hardwood forests that favors areas with extra moisture.

Dry open woods and rocky banks are home for New Jersey Tea.

Moth Mullein crops up along roadsides and in old fields.

And a Cottontail Rabbit came out of a thicket near Dummerston Landing long enough to nibble some clover.

John

6-22 Ladies Thumb

 6-22

Ladies Thumb is a common wed of gardens and waste areas.

Tubercled Orchis favors wet meadows and river banks.

And Lesser Toadflax is most commonly found in railroad ballast although it's not common even there.

John

6-21 Common Mullein

 6-21

The dense spikes of large yellow flowers and the woolly leaves of Common Mullein mark roadsides and unmaintained fields.

John

6-20 Queen Anne's Lace

 6-20

Queen Anne's Lace is common in dry fields and waste places. Other names for this plant are Bird's Nest and Wild Carrot.

The flowers of Monkey Flower are said to resemble simian faces. Look for it in wet places.

And Swamp Candles, AKA Yellow Loosestrife, also favors wet places, even shallow water.

John

6-19 Everlasting Pea

 6-19

Everlasting Pea is either an escape from cultivation or introduced on construction sites for erosion control.

Yellow Rattle favors dry fields and can become an agricultural pest.

And colorful iridescent Dogbane Leaf Beetles can be found on their host plant, Dogbane.

John

6-18 Smooth Hawksbeard

 6-18

Smooth Hawksbeard favors thinly vegetated fields and waste places.

Hop Clover, AKA Yellow Clover, is common along roadsides and in fields.

And Maleberry, a shrub, has opened sprays of 1/8 inch globular flowers. Look for it in thickets.

John

6-17 White Avens

 6-17

White Avens is a plant of thickets and open woods.

Large Cranberry is said to be a plant found in bogs. Locally I find it on river cobbles!

And the invasive Purple Loosestrife which forms colonies to the exclusion of native species is starting to flower. Look for it carpeting swamps and wet meadows.

John

6-16 Pokeweed

 6-16

Pokeweed favors moist soils and shows up on roadsides and in thickets.

And Venus's Looking-glass, which is rare in Vermont, will grow in very dry locations. I find it on rip-rap and along edges of agricultural fields. The common name "Looking-glass" refers to the shape of this plant's seeds.

John

6-15 Hedge Bindweed

 6-15

Hedge Bindweed drapes over other plants in moist thickets.

Meadowsweet favors moist, often rocky, habitats.

And the paired white or pink flowers and evergreen leaves of Partridgeberry are usually seen in mossy woodlands.

John

6-14 Clovers

 6-14

Rabbit-foot Clover, Yellow Sweet Clover and White Sweet Clover are all found in dry fields and along roadsides.

John