Category Archives: Outdoors

Today we visited the Girdham Dunes, hunting for puccoon and thimbleweed. I think the links I have go to the correct varieties of each: Plains Puccoon, or Lithospermum caroliniense (Walt. ex J.F. Gmel.) MacM. Prairie Thimbleweed, or Anemone cylindrica In … Continue reading →

Rare plant monitoring for the day: racemed milkwort (photo) (info) This is much smaller and harder to find than the lupine we looked for last time. Plants were fairly scattered, and some were only a few inches tall, which made … Continue reading →

Rare plant monitoring at Oak Openings. Many many lupines. Three of us counted about 4000. There’s a photo on this brief page about the habitat from the Nature Conservancy. My legs are very tired from bending over to count plants … Continue reading →