Chicory Blossoms Decorate Country Roads with Sky Blue Wild Flowers

Posted on 21 August 2008 by wilde

This morning I found the cereal cupboard bare except for a sample-sized box of Fiber One cereal, made by General Mills. Left behind by one of the summer guests of the mountain, I figured that the children chose all the really sweet ones first.

Fiber One sample cereal box.
I wouldn’t have purchased the small boxes […]

Another Orchid on the Mountain: Whorled Pogonia

Posted on 19 August 2008 by wilde

For three years now I have been spying on a special plant, just waiting for it to flower. We’re fortunate enough to have three members of the orchid family, Orchidaceae, on our property here in Central Pennsylvania.
Pink Lady’s Slipper, Cypripedium acaule, and Downy Rattlesnake Plantain, Goodyera pubescens, have already flowered this year. The Pink Lady’s […]

White Vervain Grows Along the Lane in Part-Sun

Posted on 18 August 2008 by wilde

A new plant caught my eye last week as I walked down the lane to pick a couple hands full of blackberries. It reminded me of Lopseed because it had a similar arrangement of very small flowers on spikes that arose from leaf axils and from its terminal stem.

No flowers were open early in the […]