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Wildflower Walk, a blooming success

5/17/2019

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Wild flowers and other herbaceous plants
Common blue violet   
Yellow violet
White violet
Common Buttercup
Kidney leaf buttercup
Spring cress
Cut-leaf toothwort
Pennsylvania bittercress
Black mustard
Garlic mustard (invasive)
Spring beauty
Large flowered trillium
Toad shade
Ramps (wild leek)
Golden ragwort
Miterwort
Greek valerian
Bloodroot
Mayapple
Spring forget-me-not
Northern bedstraw
Cleavers
Wild geranium
Spring larkspur
Wild ginger
Sharp lobed hepatica
Perfoliate or Sessile bellwort
Sweet cicely
Virginia bluebells
Plantain leaved pussytoes
Golden alexanders
Common bluet
Trout lily
Rue anemone
Early saxifrage
Daisy fleabane
Colts foot
Broad leaved waterleaf
Wild blue phlox
Henbit
Ground ivy
Christmas fern
Grape fern (Botrichium sp.)
Stonecrop
Sour dock
Wild strawberry
Chickweed
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Birds (seen or heard)
Canada Goose
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
White-eyed Vireo
Yellow-throated Vireo
Carolina Chickadee
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Ovenbird
Louisiana Waterthrush
Common Yellowthroat
American Redstart
Yellow Warbler
Eastern Towhee
Song Sparrow
Northern C
Trees and shrubs (Some in bloom)
American Elm
Sycamore
Box elder
Redbud
Flowering Dogwood
Silver Maple
Red Maple
White ash (most dead from the ash borer)
White oak
Northern red oak
Yellow buckeye
Black walnut
Black willow
Sassafras
Tuliptree
Pawpaw
Black-haw (Viburnum prunifolium)
Autumn olive (invasive)
Multiflora rose
Bitternut hickory
Shagbark hickory
Spice bush
Hawthorn (Crataegus sp.)
Ironwood
Wild honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica var. glaucescens) ​​
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​Captina Conservancy is a nonprofit land trust with a focus on conserving and protecting the Captina Creek and regional Watersheds.  We seek to inform others about the importance of this watershed and its water quality to all who live here. We promote and engage in the conservation, restoration and sustainability of our Watersheds through education, voluntary conservation agreements and acquisitions, and water quality monitoring.

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