Botanic Buzzline (Week 4)

Pale Pink Flower, soft under leaf

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Dear Tongue Grass (Dichanthelium clandestinum)

Flat-Topped Aster (Dollingeria umbellata)

Largest seed head of genus. Blue-green sheen

Canada Wild Rye Grass (Elymus canadensis)

Bottlebrush Grass (Elymus hystrix)

Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)

Wider Leaf

Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum muticum)

Thinner Toothy Leaves

Virginia Mountain Mint (Pycanthemum virginianum)

Seaside Goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens)

Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)

New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae)

5’-6’

Culver’s Root (Veronicastrum virginicum)

Fuzzy

Wild Ginger (Asarum canadensis)

Dark brown Spores on back, brownish hue

Lady Fern (Athyrium angustum)

Light brown scale, round brown spores on back

Intermediate Wood Fern (Dryopteris intermedia)

Riparian Wild Rye (Elymus riparius)

White Wood Aster (Eurybia divaricata)

Bright red flowers

Cardinal Flower (Lobelia Cardinalis)

Wider at top

Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris)

Interrupted Fern (Osmunda claytoniana)

Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis)

Golden Ragwort (Packera aurea)

No longer flowering

Purple Flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus)

Yellow Flower

Cut Leaf Coneflower (Rudbeckia laciniata)

Blue-Stemmed Goldenrod (Solidago caesia)

Zig Zag Goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)