Shimek Wildflowers

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Blue Lobelia (Lobelia syphilitica) 8/28/19


 

 

Spotted St. John's Wort. 7/10/19

 

 

 

 Woodland sunflower (helianthus strumosus)  blooming along the horse trails, 7/10/19 and later

 

 

Wild beebalm (Monarda) 7/10/19

 

 

 

Fringed Loosestrife. 7/10/19 end of Lick Creek Road

Germander--scattered all along the trails in Lick Creek 7/10/19

 

Common Orange Daylily along the side of the Lick Creek Road. 7/10/19

 

 

American Bellflower on the dirt trail near Lick Creek crossing. 7/10/2019

 

Daisy fleabane, growing tall beside the trails in Lick Creek, 7/10/19

 

White Avens--inconspicuous but sprinkled all along beside the trails in the woods of Lick Creek , 7/10/19

 

 

This one you should be sure to recognize--don't touch and don't eat the berries--its poison ivy. Its growing extra lush this year with many young plants reaching out for you as you ride or walk by them in Lick Creek.  7/10/19

 

 

 

 

Violets blooming beside the road, Lick Creek Unit, 4/19/19

 

Pink Spring Beauty beside the road, Lick Creek Unit, 4/19/19 

One of many patches of May Apples growing but not yet blooming in Lick Creek Unit, 4/19/19

 

 

 

Bur Cucumbers are beginning to bloom along the wet weather trail as of 8/17/18.

 

Native white wild indigo growing beside the trail in the Lick Creek Unit that reaches the Croton Road. 7/6/18. 

 

Pointed leaf tick trefoil seen scattered all along the dirt trails, especially back through the recently burned over area.  Lick Creek Unit. 7/6/18

 

Native Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)  and the introduced species Queen Anne's lace (Daucus carota)  in the ditch beside the trail at Croton Road -Lick Creek Unit. 7/6/18

Found along a wooded trail in the Lick Creek Unit.  Unknown at this time.  7/6/18

A large area in the recovering cut and burned area that is covered with the native American Germander (Teucrium canadense) in bloom.  Also scattered all about along the trails on 7/6/18 in the Lick Creek Unit.

 

 

Partridge peas just beginning to bloom on 7/6/18 in the Lick Creek Unit.

 

Wild petunia blooming beside the trail on the Croton road side of Lick Creek Unit

. 7/6/18

 

 

One of numerous mullein plants sending up their yellow bloom spikes on 7/6/18 in the Lick Creek Unit.

 

 

American bellflower along a dirt trail in the Lick Creek Unit. 7/6/18

 

Native plant, aromatic or fragrant sumac fruit found on numerous shrubs from a foot to 4 feet in height al along the dirt trails in the Lick Creek Unit 

 

 

Purple milkweed and giant fritillary butterflies.  Beside the road just past the Lick Creek Lower Campground turn 6-12-18

 

 

Invasive, non-native. Crown Vetch. Growing in patches near the prairie planting past the turn to Lick Creek lower campground  6-12-18

 

 

INVASIVE, non-native  Bush Honeysuckle - Bitternut Lake in Shimek-5/23/18

 

                                   Wild Geranium-Bitternut Lake in Shimek-5/23/18


Foxglove beardtongue at Bitternut Lake in Shimek 5/23/18

Mayapple with bud   Lick Creek trails 4/24/18
 

Toothwort-Lick Creek Trails-4/24/18

Dutchman's breeches--pink variant-Lick Creek Trails-4/24/18
 

Spring Beauty --both pink and white variants-Entrance road Lick Creek-4/24/18

White Trillium  3/15/2016

False Rue Anemone  3/21/12 Lick Creek

Toothwort  4/9/16 White Oak campground

 

Dutchmen's breeches 4/9/16 White Oak Campground

 

 

 

Bellwort along horse trail in Lick Creek 4/22/2007

Buttercup Lick Creek Unit trails 4/22/2007

Virginia Bluebell  at Lick Creek 4/22/2007

 

 

Trillium recurvatum (Prairie trillium) 4/30/12