6-20 Partridgeberry

6-20
The paired white or pinkish flowers of Partridgeberry can be seen in the woods.
Roadsides and waste places host Chicory which can be either blue or, occasionally, white.
Venus' Looking-glass, so called because of the shape of its seeds, is opening flowers. It seems to favor recently disturbed areas.
John

Partridgeberry

Chicory

Venus' Looking-glass

6-20 Dummerston Closed

6-20
Despite what it says, this sign refers only to Dummerston Landing.

6-19 Meadowsweet

6-19
Meadowsweet is starting to flower along river banks and in other damp habitats.
Barred Owls have fledged young. Two or three were in a patch of woods I went through this morning. Although somewhat flighted they still expect to be fed.
John

Meadowsweet

Barred Owl

6-18 Common Milkweed

6-18
Common Milkweed and Four-leaved Milkweed are both opening flowers. Common Milkweed favors fields and roadsides. Four-leaved Milkweed is found on dry, wooded slopes.
Common Mullein is sending up its spikes of yellow flowers in fields and thickets and dry roadsides.
John

Common Milkweed

Four-leaved Milkweed

Common Mellein

6-17 Moneywort

6-17
Moneywort, a low creeping plant of wet areas, is opening its paired yellow flowers.
White Avens favors dry open woodlands and thickets.
In rocky woods and thickets the showy flowers of Purple Flowering Raspberry loom large.
John

Moneywort

White Avens

Purple Flowering Raspberry

6-16 White Beardtongue

6-16
White Beardtongue, AKA Foxglove Beardtongue, is starting to flower.
Black-eyed Susans are opening opening in old fields and along roadsides.
Tall Meadow Rue is rising above damp ditches and sunny swamps.
John

White Beardtongue

Black-eyed Susan

Tall Meadow Rue

6-15 Motherwort

6-15
The fuzzy pink flowers of Motherwort are open. Motherwort was used medicinally and is often found around old homesites.
Galinsoga, AKA Quickweed, is a weed of cultivated ground.
Lesser Toadflax often appears in railroad ballast and cinders.
Red Milkweed Beetles, true to form, are busily consuming milkweed leaves.
John

Motherwort

Galinsoga

Lesser Toadflax

Milkweed Beetles

6-14 Knawel

6-14
Knawel - a low, matted plant that grows in hard packed dry gravel parking lots - is flowering.
Rabbit-foot Clover is furring roadsides.
And Selfheal is coloring damper grassy areas.
John

Knawel

Rabbit-foot Clover

Selfheal

6-13 Sheep Laurel

6-13
Sheep Laurel, AKA Lamb Kill, is in flower. This shrub is, as the name implies, toxic to livestock.
John

6-12 Common wood Sorrel

6-12
The pink-veined white flowers of Common Wood Sorrel are opening.
John

6-11 Shining Ladies Tresses

6-11
Shining Ladies Tresses, a tiny member of the orchid family, is flowering in seeps and along river banks.
Carrion Flower, so called because of its scent, is draping through damp thickets.
John

Shining Ladies Tresses

Carrion Flower

6-10 Whorled Loosestrife

6-10
Whorled Loosestrife -  one of six yellow loosestrifes to be found in our area - is opening flowers.
Silver-spotted Skippers and Common whitetail Dragonflies are both airborne.
John

Whorled Loosestrife

Silver-spotted Skipper

Common Whitetail Dragonfly

6-9 Yellow Pond Lily

6-9
Yellow Pond Lilies (AKA Spatterdock) are holding their heads above water and the frothy white umbels of Maple-leaved Viburnum top thickets and dot edges.
John

Yellow Pond Lily

Maple-leaved Viburnum

6-8 Crown Vetch

6-8
Crown Vetch, an introduced species, shows up on roadsides and at old home sites.
The garden escape, blue False Indigo, is common along riverbanks and on gravel bar islands.
Even Poison Ivy is flowering vigorously and is seemingly everywhere.
John

Crown Vetch

Blue False Indigo

Poison Ivy

6-7 Mountain Laurel

6-7
Mountain Laurel is starting its flowering. Highbush Cranberry is at its flowering peak. And the somewhat invasive escaped Yellow Iris is lighting up swamps and river banks.
John

Mountain Laurel

Highbush Cranberry

Yellow Iris

6-6 Orange Hawkweed

6-6
Orange Hawkweed joins the more common Yellow Hawkweeds in fields and along roadsides and Blue Flag Iris is coloring wet places.
John

6-5 Black Locust

6-5
The sweet scent of Black Locust's pea-like flowers fills the air.
Parasitic Oak Drops are up under their Oak tree hosts.
And a wild rose, probably one called Smooth Rose, is flowering along riverbanks above the high water line.
John

Black Locust flowers

Oak Drops

wild rose, possibly Smooth Rose

6-4 Indian Cucumber Root

6-4
The spiderish flowers of Indian Cucumber Root dangle below the upper of its two leaf whorls.
John

Indian Cucumber Root

6-3 Sleepy Catchfly

6-3
Sleepy Catchfly and White Campion are in flower. The flowers of Sleepy Catchfly are, "open for only a short while in the sun." White Campion is night blooming.
John

sleepy Catchfly

White Campion

6-2 Maiden Pink

6-2
Maiden Pink and Ragged Robin are both in flower.
John

Maiden Pink

Ragged Robin

6-1 Lesser Stitchwort

6-1
Otherwise recumbent Lesser Stitchwort uses grasses and weeds for support where possible.
In woody places Hoary Alyssum stands stiffly and independently erect.
John

Lesser Stitchwort

Hoary Alyssum