#virginia waterleaf

[vandaliatraveler]

It was such a glorious Saturday morning, I couldn’t pass up a bike ride on the Mon River Trail. It’s hard to believe the spring ephemerals are mostly gone now that the canopy has closed in, but Mother Nature doesn’t doddle. As compensation, she has given us stunning new greens and a lush carpet of ferns.

From top: black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a Central Appalachian endemic that has been widely cultivated outside of its native range and is now naturalized in many other parts of North America and Europe; American bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia), a large, suckering shrub that forms the most amazing fruit, encased in a three-chambered bladder; Virginia spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana), which despite its unappealing name is an absolutely gorgeous, spring-blooming dayflower; lyreleaf sage (Salvia lyrata L.). a highly appealing spring-blooming mint with incredibly showy foliage; Philadelphia fleabane (Erigeron philadelphicus), distinguished from other spring asters by it clasping leaves; Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum), an edible green sometimes referred to as Shawnee salad; and Canada violet (Viola canadensis), one of the last and most stately violets to bloom in this area.

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #mon river trail #spring #wildflowers #flora #robinia pseudoacacia #black locust #staphylea trifolia #american bladdernut #tradescantia virginiana #virginia spiderwort #salvia lyrata #lyreleaf sage #erigeron philadelphicus #philadelphia fleabane #hydrophyllum virginianum #virginia waterleaf #shawnee salad #viola canadensis #canada violet

[gentlewreath]

More Virginia Waterleaf! Somehow in all of the pictures I took on my walk these two of the same kind of flower ended up the most dramatic.

#mine #nature #plants #leaves #flowers #Virginia waterleaf #green #purple

[muirneach]

i spent all day hanging out downtown and the only pictures i have are from walking home in the river!

#dont look to closely at the fourth pic; its all garlic mustard as far as the eye can see and it’s real depressing #christ and then we got lesser celandine in the fifth… another classic invasive #its okay tho i also saw trout lily (my favourite lily) and virginia waterleaf (sixth picture) #and that violet may or may not be native but i dont know enough about violet identification #and mystery mammal jaw from my evening walk with my dad… idk what thats all about #flora and fauna

[himountainnativeplants]

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#Hydrophyllum virginianum Virginia waterleaf

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

I feel like there's gonna be a really obvious answer to this, but I've started wondering why so many Carolinian plants are named after Virginia (i.e. Virginia waterleaf, southern live oak/Quercus virginiana, Virginia mountain mint, etc). There's even a Wikipedia page dedicated to "shit that has virginana as a scientific name." Do they have more naturalists there? Is it just that it sounds like a better name than, like, ontarioensis?

#which to be fair does not sound great #plant tag #... what tags do NA native plant people follow? i really do want an answer

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Last time I tried this it loaded forever and nothing happened. So let's try again:

Oenothera speciosa (pink evening primrose)

Gaillardia xgrandiflora (blanket flower)

Allium schoenoprasum (wild chives)

Rubus allegheniensis (Allegheny blackberry)

Drymocallis arguta (tall cinquefoil)

Armeria maritima (thrift seapink)

Erigeron glabellus (streamside fleabane)

Aquilegia canadensis (Canada columbine)

Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry)

Erigeron philadelphicus (Philadelphia fleabane)

Lupinus polyphyllus (bigleaf lupine)

Mimulus guttatus (yellow monkeyflower)

Tradescantia ohiensis (Ohio spiderwort)

Taraxacum officinale (dandelion)

Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia waterleaf)

Fragaria vesca (woodland strawberry)

Phlox divaricata (woodland phlox)

Cerastium arvense (field chickweed)

Vaccinium angustifolium (lowbush blueberry)

Arisaema triphyllum (jack-in-the-pulpit)

Trillium cuneatum (sweet little Betsy)

Zizia aurea (Golden alexanders)

Calctha palustris (marsh marigold)

Myosotis laxa (smallflower forget-me-not)

Trillium erectum (red wakerobin)

Uvularia grandiflora (largeflower bellwort)

Heliopsis helianthoides (sweet oxeye)

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster)

Silphium perfoliatum (cup plant)

Cirsium discolor (field thistle)

And the rest will have to wait because tumblr cut me off. lol

[aliceaddsocks]

Check out this cool trackable I found while Geocaching in Harbin Park in Fairfield, Ohio! Such a small, silly thing that made my day. This place has HILLS. Loads of spring flowers blooming. Pictured are a Giant(?) Trout Lily, Spring Beauties, and a gorgeous Wood Poppy with Garlic Mustard, which isn’t blooming yet, but I love it still! Also saw violets, Dutchman’s britches, cut-leafed toothwort, mayapples coming up, false rue anemones and more… virginia waterleaf… and geocaches! Tftc to the cache owners for leading me on a great treasure hunt. Can’t wait to deposit this Gnomes and popcorn trackable on a big adventure later this summer!

Hope you are well and enjoying the day, my lovelies.

Alice

#Geocache #geocaching #gnomecore #gnoming #Grab your popcorn #Enjoy the show #trackable #treasure hunter #Fairfield ohio #Spring flowers #woodland flowers #Botanical #walk in the woods #hill training

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Virginia Waterleaf Hydrophyllum virginianum Hydrophyllaceae (Waterleaf) Family

Photograph taken on June 22, 2019, at Crawford Lake Conservation Area, Milton, Ontario.

#wildflowers of southern ontario #Virginia Waterleaf #Hydrophyllum virginianum #Hydrophyllaceae #Waterleaf #white #Crawford Lake #Crawford Lake Conservation Area #ontario #canada #milton

[geopsych]

Virginia waterleaf blooming, and a bee playing peekaboo.

#Virginia waterleaf #Hydrophyllum virginianum #wildflowers #spring ephemerals #May #PEnnsylvania

[vandaliatraveler]

My family is convinced I was kidnapped by forest gnomes when I was a boy and brainwashed into believing nature is more fun than my own kin. They got one part of that right. Seriously, how can a weekend stuck in a tourist trap full of plastic bears and overpriced restaurants compete with 20 minutes of combing through the extraordinary diversity of life crammed into a few square feet of wet rock outcropping in one of Appalachia’s rich, temperate forests? I don’t see how anyone can blame a hopeless nature nerd for choosing the rock.

Top to bottom: Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum); squirrel corn (Dicentra canadensis); northern maidenhair fern (Adiantum pedatum); heartleaf foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia); purple-flowering raspberry (Rubus odoratus); plantain-leaved sedge (Carex plantaginea): woodland stonecrop (Sedum ternatum); and various mosses and liverworts.

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #flora #spring #wildflowers #diversity #nature #hydrophyllum #virginia waterleaf #dicentra #squirrel corn #adiantum #northern maidenhair fern #tiarella #heartleaf foamflower #rubus #purple-flowering raspberry #carex #plantain-leaved sedge #sedum #woodland stonecrop #moss #liverwort #mon river trail

[gentlewreath]

Finally learned that this is called Virginia Waterleaf! In my head they were just Mother’s Day flowers, there was a year they bloomed late and covered the woods near my childhood home and I picked a large bouquet of them for my Mother’s Day gift

#mine #nature #plants #leaves #flowers #green #purple #virgina waterleaf

[muirneach]

idk what these are but oooh pretty

#i stopped dead in my tracks and hopped off my bike to see these ive not seen em #theyre like virginia waterleaf but like spread out differently #cause they have the same hairy stem but idk #flowers #flora and fauna

[persephonbee]

I went foraging today! Puff pastries of assorted shapes, with a filling of dandelion greens, Virginia waterleaf, fleabane, creeping Charlie, daylily shoots, dame's rocket, plus store-bought button mushrooms, garlic, onion, goat cheese, and parmesan!

[mdeanstrauss]

Virginia Waterleaf (aka Brook Flower) dominating the wildflower kingdom now... the Iroquois were known to use the tender young leaves as salad greens...

#Iowa #wildflower #macro

[habitatbranch]

got seeds coming now for  Canadian Serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis), Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis), a new heirloom Seaberry (Hippophae rhamnoides) variety to cross with my current one, Sochan (Rudbeckia laciniata), and Virginia Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum)  During my second year (last year) of starting seeds in an outdoor nursery-like environment I did enough different things that I feel I’ve a significantly better understanding of how to propagate a variety of woody perennials from seed I’m excited to add these foods to the little suburban food forest system.. Now that I also have Hopniss (Apios americana) successfully growing there and a variety of edible plants coming up on their own, it feels like it’s getting closer to the point when it will become more about harvesting biomass than about inputs. So far this year I haven’t had to water anything except new plantings for a day or two after planting. but I have also let things grow in much more thickly than previous years so the soil is not exposed at all, from the combination of groundcover plants and compost/mulch on the surface.

#permaculture #garden #stuff #progress

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Native Plants I’ve Actually Seen Growing Wild in Southern Ontario

Acer saccharinum (silver maple) --along the sides of highways

Acer saccharum (sugar maple) --GTA ravines

Achillea millefolia (yarrow) --GTA ravines

Allium schoenoprasum (wild chives) --GTA ravines, Ridgetown

Allium tricoccum (ramps) --Niagara region escarpments

Amaranthus retroflexus (redroot amaranth) --fallow areas in the GTA

Ambrosia artemisiifolia (ragweed) --fallow areas in the GTA

Ambrosia trifida (giant ragweed) --parks in the GTA

Amelanchier spp. (saskatoon/serviceberry) --GTA ravines

Arisaema triphyllum (Jack-in-the-pulpit) --GTA ravines

Aronia melanocarpa (black chokeberry) --ravines and parks in the GTA

Asarum canadense (Canada ginger) --GTA ravines

Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) --fallow areas, ravines, and parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Asplenium trichomanes (maidenhair spleenwort) --Niagara region escarpments

Betula spp. (birch) --ravines and parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Bidens spp. (beggar ticks) --GTA ravines

Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) --GTA parks

Ceratophyllum demersum (hornwort) --GTA ravines (native in freshwater across the globe anyway)

Circaea lutetiana (enchanter’s nightshade) --fallow areas in the GTA

Commelina spp. (dayflower) --fallow areas in Windsor

Cornus alternifolia (Pagoda dogwood) --GTA wooded areas

Cornus sericea (red osier dogwood) --GTA ravines and in Windsor riverside parks

Crataegus spp. (hawthorn) --GTA ravines and parks

Echinocystis lobata (wild prickly cucumber) --GTA ravines

Elaeagnus commutata (silverberry) --GTA parks and fallow areas

Epilobium ciliatum (fringed willowherb) --fallow areas in the GTA

Equisetum spp. (horsetail/scouring rush) --GTA ravines and fallow areas

Erigeron spp. (fleabane) --GTA parks and fallow areas, Ridgetown

Erythronium americanum (trout lily) --GTA ravines and parks

Eutrochium maculatum (Joe-Pye weed) --GTA parks

Fragaria virginiana (wild strawberry) --fallow areas in the GTA

Geranium maculatum (wild geranium) --Windsor green spaces

Geranium robertianum (herb robert) --Windsor green spaces

Geum aleppicum (yellow avens) --GTA fallow areas

Geum canadense (white avens) --GTA fallow areas

Geum macrophyllum (large-leaved avens) --GTA fallow areas

Gymnocladus dioicus (Kentucky coffee tree) --GTA ravines

Helianthus spp. (sunflower) --GTA fallow areas and parks

Heracleum maximum (cow parsnip) --GTA ravines

Hordeum jubatum (foxtail barley) --GTA fallow areas

Humulus lupulus (hops) --GTA ravines

Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia waterleaf) --GTA ravines

Impatiens capensis (jewelweed) --GTA ravines and in Windsor riverside parks

Juglans nigra (black walnut) --GTA ravines

Lactuca canadensis (Canadian lettuce) --GTA fallow areas

Lilium michiganense (Michigan lily) --GTA ravines

Lupinus perennis (sundial lupine) --GTA parks

Maianthemum canadense (Canada mayflower) --GTA ravines

Maianthemum racemosum (starry false solomon’s seal) --GTA ravines and parks

Maianthemum stellatum (starry false solomon’s seal) --GTA ravines

Matteuccia struthiopteris (ostrich fern) --GTA ravines

Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot) --GTA ravines and parks

Morus rubra (red mulberry) --fallow areas in Windsor, GTA parks

Myosotis laxa (smallflower forget-me-not) --GTA fallow areas

Oenothera biennis (evening primrose) --GTA fallow areas

Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern) --GTA ravines

Oxalis stricta (yellow wood sorrel) --fallow areas and ravines throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Parietaria pensylvanica (Pennsylvania pellitory) --GTA fallow areas

Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper) --Windsor fallow areas and GTA ravines and parks

Persicaria lapathifolia (curlytop smartweed) --GTA fallow areas

Podophyllum peltatum (mayapple) --GTA ravines and parks

Portulaca oleracea (purslane) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA (native globally anyway)

Potentilla norvejica monspeliensis (ternate-leaved cinquefoil) --GTA fallow areas

Prunella vulgaris (selfheal) --fallow areas and ravines throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Prunus virginiana (chokecherry) --Windsor fallow areas, GTA ravines and parks, Niagara region escarpments

Pteridium aquilinum latiusculum (western bracken fern) --GTA parks

Quercus spp. (oak) --wooded areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac) --parks and fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to Collingwood

Ribes spp. (currants) --GTA ravines and parks

Ribes spp. (gooseberries) --GTA ravines

Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust) --GTA ravines and parks

Rosa spp. (roses) --GTA ravines, parks, and fallow areas

Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry) --ravines, parks, and fallow areas in Hamilton and GTA

Rubus odoratus (purple-flowered raspberry) --GTA ravines and parks

Rubus strigosus (American red raspberry) --GTA parks

Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed susan) --GTA parks

Salix spp. (willow) --GTA ravines

Sambucus canadensis (common elderberry) --Windsor riverside parks, GTA ravines

Sambucus racemosa (red elderberry) --GTA ravines and parks

Smilax spp. (greenbrier) --GTA parks

Solidago canadensis (Canada goldenrod) --parks and fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Sorbus spp. (mountain ash) --GTA ravines and parks

Streptopus spp. (twistedstalk) --GTA parks

Symphoricarpos spp. (snowberry) --GTA parks

Symphyotrichum ericoides (heath aster) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England aster) --fallow areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) --GTA parks

Tilia spp. (linden) --GTA ravines

Trillium grandiflorum (white trillium) --parks throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) --GTA parks

Typha latifolia (broad-leaved cattail) --marshes in Essex county and GTA

Urtica gracilis (slender nettle) --GTA ravines

Uvularia spp. (bellwort) --streams in Windsor green spaces

Verbena hastata (blue vervain) --GTA ravines

Viburnum lentago (nannyberry) --GTA parks and Ridgetown ravine

Viburnum trilobum (highbush cranberry) --Ridgetown

Viola sororia (wood violet) --fallow areas and wooded areas throughout southern Ontario from Windsor to GTA

Vitis riparia (riverbank grape) --GTA fallow areas, ravines, and parks

Waldsteinia fragarioides (barren strawberry) --GTA ravines and parks

Xanthium strumarium canadense (Canada cocklebur) --GTA parks and fallow areas

I’ve likely seen many others and just couldn’t identify them, but there are a lot I’ve never seen growing wild. What I’m hoping is that some of the native species I have in my garden will make their way to the nearby ravine. If I get around to it, though, I might just take a walk with some Asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed) seeds in the fall. They certainly seem to successfully germinate in my garden whether I want them to or not (don’t have space for them to go crazy). Can’t see why they wouldn’t in a natural swamp area.

#text post #long text post #native plants of Ontario #native plants of North America #wild native plants