Headed North!
Over the holiday weekend we headed North. We have a camp in Coos County, New Hampshire that we do not get to often enough! It’s an entirely different world up there, …
Quick and dirty.
This past week was a busy one with the launch of our summer project – Backyard Biology 2016, a crowdsourced natural inventory of our community! Residents and visitors to the …
A peek in the woods….
A few weeks ago we pulled over to take a picture of a quite beautiful patch of blooming Epigaea repens. As we were walking back to the Jeep, Keith peeked up …
The spring ephemerals continue…
Find the habitat, find the plants. That’s a good Keith quote. Our friend Parker from White Mountain Mushrooms suggested we try a spot that he had scoped out earlier, and it …
The spring ephemerals have sprung!
It’s around this time of year that folks to the south and west of us start sharing pictures of spring ephemerals, the glorious first blooms of spring! Spring ephemerals are …
A few ferns for fun
Honestly, I am struggling at this point with quite a few of the ferns. My issue is, I have not actually keyed any out, the species I do know by …
Purple fringed bog orchids and Ditch Botany
You know how some roadsides are lined with ferns or Japanese knotweed (invasive, invasive, invasive!) or are dutifully mowed far too often by overzealous town crews? Well, go to Northern …
Our secret spot! I spy Platanthera blephariglottis!
Platanthera blephariglottis! Platanthera blephariglottis! Platanthera blephariglottis! Say it a few more times and it will start to roll off your tongue, I promise! The white-fringed bog-orchid MIGHT be one of my …
Window on the Ossipees
Sometimes the coolest places are the most unassuming ones. Take Window on the Ossipees, for example. A small dirt parking lot off of busy Route 16. A covered picnic table …
Carnivorous sundew. Oh, and some Malaxis unifolia.
We are on the hunt for Malaxis unifolia! Green Adder’s Mouth. Tiny. Elusive. Ranked S2 in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, S1 in Connecticut and Rhode Island. We are getting …
Camping in Mollidgewock State Park
We headed north! Rather than staying at camp, we decided to tent it at Mollidgewock State Park which is located in Thirteen Mile Woods. Thirteen Mile Woods is 2,754 acres that follows the …
The Cypripediums – Lady’s-slippers of New England
Ok, let’s just get this straight from the get-go. It’s LADY’S-SLIPPERS. The slippers that belong to the lady. Hyphenated. As we do for most native orchid concerns, I refer to …
Native Orchids! The season has begun!
We looooove native orchids! There are FIFTY TWO native orchids listed for New Hampshire, and most folks are not aware that there is even one. Four of the fifty two …
Spring Wildflowers and Growing Green Things
Spring is FINALLY freaking underway! Some finds from the past week: I was excited to see dwarf ginseng even before it bloomed…..this is even better! Don’t bother harvesting this stuff. …
Botrychium oneidense , Pine Barrens of NH
Apparently this little guy is somewhat rare. This is Botrychium oneidense, or blunt lobed grapefern. Found on the floodplain of the Chocorua river in Tamworth NH. Other grapeferns have more pointy …
