Hocking Hills Wildflowers Right Now
Friends Beth & Chuck recently hiked through the Rock House area to enjoy spring wildflowers. They report that trillium, jack-in-th-pulpit, Dutchman's-breeches and many others are on full display. I'll have to get over there.
In the meantime, I hiked into the woods behind our house (same woods our Marsh Hollow cabin is near) and found the following beauties today:
I can only hope I got the names right because I'm using the 1968 edition of A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny. Things can change in that amount of time.
In the meantime, I hiked into the woods behind our house (same woods our Marsh Hollow cabin is near) and found the following beauties today:
- Bluets
- Common blue violet
- Cut-leaved toothwort
- Golden ragwort
- Hispid buttercup
- May-apple (not blooming yet, but getting ready)
- Poor man's pepper
- Rue anemone
- Smooth phlox
- Smooth yellow violet
- Spring beauty
- Sweet white violet
- White trillium
I can only hope I got the names right because I'm using the 1968 edition of A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny. Things can change in that amount of time.
Labels: hocking hills, wildflowers
posted by Unknown | 4:55 PM
1 Comments:
hi it would be benificial to have the botanical name beside the common name, because sometimes the plant will have several common names.
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