Wild Flower Watch

 
White Trillium
(Trillium grandiflorum)
[TRIL-ee-um   gran-dih-FLOR-um]
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Last Update
February 1, 2012
 

Periods of Observation:
January 26 - 31

 

Places of Observation:
   RBG Hendrie Valley and Arboretum,
and a property just west of the Hamilton border



Comments:

                     Temperatures have been up and down. Snow and come and gone. I was out on a day without snow and temperatures above freezing so I found 5 wild or naturalized flowers and 4 cultivated flowers. The one new flower for the season was Whitlowgrass. Normal blooming time starts at the end of March or even the end of April. I stumbled across it in December of 2011 so I was looking for it in January. It was very small and easy to overlook if I had not been looking where I knew it had been seen earlier.

Wild or naturalized or cultivated flowers blooming
January 27 - 31, 2012
 
English Names
* = Not Native
N = New for Season		 Latin Names
 
  Bittercress, Hairy * Cardamine hirsuta
  Chickweed, Common * Stellaria media
  Dandelion, Red-Seeded * Taraxacum erythrospermum
  Groundsel, Common * Senecio vulgaris
 N Whitlow Grass * Draba verna

Cultivated Plants
 N Snowdrops * Galanthus nivalis
  Viburnum, Dwarf Fragrant * Viburnum farreri 'Nanum'
  Witch Hazel, 'Brevipetala' * Hamamelis x ‘Brevipetala’
  Witch Hazel, 'Jelena' * Hamamelis x intermedia 'Jelena'

 

 

Monday Evening Walks will start in April

               As usual, I am still going out almost every Friday afternoon. If you are interested in joining me give me 24 hours notice so I can give you the meeting place. I usually, but not always, start at Cherry Hill Gate and go on to the Arboretum and/or the Waterfront Trail but there are exceptions.            

Photos from Fleur-Ange Lamothe

Some other Photos from Fleur-Ange

Photos From 2007

Photos from 2006

 

 

Photos and Notes from Ron Hepworth

 

            Ron's weekly notes are finished for this season.

 

Ron's 2010 Summary

 


 

 

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