April 24 2014 Species List

SUMMARY OF OBSERVED SPECIES (April 24, 2014):

Common Name

Scientific Name

Comment

International
Garden

Lyre
Leaf Sage

Salvia lyrata

Flowering

Arkansas
Amsonia or Hubricht’s Amsonia

Amsonia hubrichtii

Flowering

Coreopsis

Coreopsis sp.

Flowering

 Carolina Silverbell

Halesia carolina

Flowering

Wild
or Florida Azalea

Rhododendron austrinum

Flowering

Wild
Azalea

Rhododendron ‘Coccinea Speciosa

Flowering

Endangered Plants
Garden

Orange
Wild Azalea

Rhododendron prunifolia

Flowering

Yellow
Wild Azalea

Rhododendron flammeum

Flowering

Georgia
Rockcress

Arabis georgiana

 Flowering

Columbine

Aquilegia canadensis

Flowering

Hairy
Stemmed Spiderwort 

Tradescantia hirsuticaulis

Flowering

Blue
Toadflax

Nuttallanthus canadensis

Flowering

Hairy
Rattleweed

Baptisia arachnifera

 Flowering

Blue
False Indigo

Baptisia australis

Flowering

False
Rosemary

Conradina canescens,

 syn. Calamintha canescens

Physic Garden

Spanish
Bluebells

Hyacinthoides hispanica

Flowering

Wild
Hyacinth

Camassia sp.

Sweet
Woodruff

Galium odoratum

Lily
of the Valley

Convallaria majali

Flowering

Heritage Garden

Yellow
Sweetshrub

Calycanthus floridus

‘Athens’ Cultivar

Paw
Paw

Asimina triloba

Few
flowers left

Red
Buckeye

Aesculus pavia

Flowering

Flower Garden

American
Wisteria

Wisteria frutescens

 Prominent flower buds

Dwarf
Crested Iris

Iris cristata

Flowering

Oak
apple gall

Green
and Gold

Chrysogonum virginianum

Flowering

Orange Trail

Wild
Yam

Dioscorea villosa

Wild
Geranium

Geranium maculatum

Flowering

Jack-in-the-pulpit

Arisaema triphyllum

Flowering

Blue-eyed
Grass

Sisyrinchium sp.

Flowering

Yellow
Three Parted Violet 

Viola tripartita

Few
flowers; mostly gone

Spotted
Wintergreen/Spotted Pipsissewa

Chimaphila maculate

Rue
Anemone 

Thalictrum thalictroides

Flowers

Yellowroot 

Xanthorhiza simplicissima

No
flowers

Broad
Beech Fern

Phegopteris hexagonoptera

Mayapples

Podophyllum peltatum

Fruit
forming

Rattlesnake
Fern

Botrypus virginianus

Fertile
frond

Little
Brown Jugs

Hexastylis arifolia

Flowering

Atamasco
Lily

Zephyranthes atamasco

Flowering

Wild
Blackberry

Rubus sp.

Flowering

Spinyfruit
Ranunculus

Ranunculus muricatus

Flowering

Blue
Star

Amsonia tabernaemontana

Flowering

Rain
Lily

Zephyranthes atamasco

Flowering

Sparkleberry

Vaccinium arboretum

April 17 2014 Ramble Report

Twenty Ramblers assembled on this chilly morning – what
happened to spring?

Don
Hunter’s facebook album for today’s ramble can be found here.

First up was an important announcement: Hugh and Carol are
this year’s recipients of the Alec Little Environmental Award, to be presented
this evening (April 17) at the Athens GreenFest Awards Ceremony.

Today’s reading was a short piece pertinent to the season:

Gazing
in the distance you will now see a long-awaited green mist, the stirring of
tree leaves emerging from their buds. Soon we will be able to hear them
rustling in the wind and this soft sound signals a change in the short life of
the ephemeral flowers on the ground below. The closing of the canopy deprives
them of sunlight and they must rush to produce their fruits and seeds and the

n
retire until next spring.

Dale Hoyt, April, 2014

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Species List (April 3 2014)

Summary of things seen April 3, 2014:

Common
Name

Scientific
Name

Comment

Power Line ROW

Small Bluet

Hedyotis
pusilla

formerly Houstonia

Quaker Ladies

Hedyotis
caerulea

formerly Houstonia

Field Madder

Sherardia
arvensis

Corn Salad

Valerianella
radiata

Green and Gold

Chrysogonum
virginianum

Dog Fennel

Eupatorium
capillifolium

Foliage only;
no flowers

Common Mullein

Verbascum
thapsus

Foliage only

Carolina Vetch

Vicia
caroliniana

Dwarf Plantain

Plantago
virginica

Dixie Reindeer
Lichen

Cladonia
subulata

Bird’s Foot
Violet

Viola
pedata

Carolina
Jessamine

Gelsemium
sempervirens

Long styled
form

White & Red trails

Sourwood Trees

Oxydendrum
arboreum

Fiddleheads

Prob. Christmas
Fern

Mayapple

Podophyllum
peltatum

Leaves and buds

Rue Anemone

Thalictrum
thalictroides

Flowering

Sessile
Bellwort

Uvularia
sessilifolia

No flowers

Witch’s Broom
on Hop Hornbeam

Ostrya
virginana

Oak Apple Gall

Perfoliate
Bellwort

Uvularia
perfoliata

Flowering

Chinese Wisteria

Wisteria
sinensis

Flowering; no
leaves

Currently Blooming In Dunson
Native Flora Garden:

Wood Poppies

Stylophorum
diphyllum

Shooting Star

Primula
media

Formerly Dodecatheon

Dwarf Crested
Iris

Iris
cristata

Dutchman’s
Breeches 

Dicentra
cucullaria

Meadow Rue

Thalictrum
dioicum

Labelled T. aquilegiifolium

Spring Beauty

Claytonia
caroliniana

Decumbent
Trillium

Trillium
decumbens

Species List (March 27 2014)

List of species observed (27 March, 2014)

Common
Name

Scientific
name

Comment

Sweet Betsy Trillium

Trillium cuneatum

Dwarf Iris

Iris sp.

probably Dwarf Crested Iris

Rue Anemone

Thalictrum thalictroides

Golden Ragwort

Packera aurea

Perfoliate Bellwort

Uvularia perfoliata

Bloodwort

Sanguinaria canadensis

Fish Crow

ID by call

Spring Beauty

Claytonia virginica

Trout Lily

Erythronium americanum

 Trillium

Trillium sp.

 Leaves uniformly green

Chattahoochee Trillium

Trillium decipiens

Dimpled Trout Lily

Erythronium umbilicatum

Dutchman’s Breeches

Dicentra cucullaria

Toothwort

Cardamine concatenate

Sharp Lobed Hepatica

Anemone acutiloba

Green and Gold

Chrysogonum virginianum

Shooting Star

Dodecatheon sp.

Trailing Trillium

Trillium decumbent

Golden Ragwort

Packera aurem

photo

Dwarf Wakerobin

Trillium pusillum

Leatherwood

Eucryphia lucida

Virginia Bluebells

Mertensia virginica

Waterleaf

Family Boraginaceae

Wood Poppies

Stylophorum diphyllum

Twin Leaf

Jeffersonia sp.

Dwarf Paw Paw

Asimina parviflora

 questionable ID

Painted Buck-eye

Aesculus sylvatica

Edna’s Trillum

Trillium persistens

Halberd Leaved Violet

Viola hastata

 Johnny Jump-up violets

Viola tricolor

Confederate Violet

Viola sororia priceana

Henbit

Lamium amplexicaule

Purple Deadnettle

Lamium purpureum

Ground Ivy

Glechoma hederacea

Hairy Wintercress

Cardamine hirsuta

Blue Speedwell

Veronica persica

Indian Strawberry

Duchesnea indica

Yellow Fumewort

Corydalis flavula

Box Elder

Acer negundo

Bluets

Houstonia pusilla

Red Bud

Cercis canadensis

Serviceberry tree

Amelanchier arborea

Several lichens

Cladonia sp.

Stinking Hellebore

Helleborus foetidus