This week's bloomlist for Wildflower Island is at the end of the post, and Bonnie's pictures
can be found HERE. Peterson names are used for consistency wherever possible, and comments
and clarifications are welcome in the comments section.
Welcome to the Northeastern Rose (Rosa nitida) by the Birdblind in the Woods. Unfortunately we lost the one we had on WFI to beavers.
Patches of Swamp Candles as we've never seen in the past few years ...
It's possible that the pink shrub we couldn't figure out last week is a Japanese White Spiraea (Spiraea albiflora). It's a low shrub, and white. More about it at Gertens.
Re the Curled Dock from last week, Illinois Wildflowers says:
... each yellowish or reddish green flower is about 1/8" (3 mm.) long and consists of 3 inner sepals, 3 outer sepals, 3 styles, and an ovary. Perfect flowers also have 6 stamens. There are no petals ...
Each plant has perfect (bisexual) and pistillate (female) flowers; they are pollinated by the wind.
Referring to the diagram posted last week, I saw no stigmas on our plants in The Woods today, so am still not sure if our plants have gone entirely to seed or not, even though they don't in any way look as if they are wilting or on the way out.
Talking about stamina, the female Winterberries (Ilex verticillata) are gone, though the males are still blooming nicely in The Woods and on the Island.
I've put Doll's-eyes — the berry of the White Baneberry — on the list (no. 17) even though the fruits of our plant are still green. I thought people might want to see how they turn into the typical white "eyes" with black pupils over several weeks.______________________________________________
There is a very strange flower in The Woods in the vicinity of the gate to the lower parking lot that looks like the Annual Fleabane (Erigeron annuus), maybe a Daisy F. (E. strigosus), but the white rays surrounding a normal size yellow center disk are extremely short - like chopped off all around with a scissors. I'm not sure if the plant is something we've never seen before, or if it's damaged or weakened in some way. If it's still there next week, we'll get a better picture of it . . .
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