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Month: March 2021

Wild Lettuce

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Lactuca serriola This has been a great year for weeds. Not only have they proliferated like the meaning of the word but some of them have reached an extraordinary size. One that you might have noticed is prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola). This form of wild lettuce was introduced from Eurasia but now grows wild in […]

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Water Clover

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Marsilea mutica Say the word fern and people instantly conjure images of a green, feathery plant that is, well,…… ferny. But of course, the typical ferny leaf is but one body design used in this ancient and extremely variable group of plants. One of the oddball ferns, the water clover (Marsilea mutica), looks like your […]

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Evening Primrose

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Oenothera sp. There are 145 species of evening-primrose. Some do indeed, as their name suggests, open at night to the delight of the moths that pollinate them. Others bloom during the daytime. Some are biennial, some are annual, some are perennial and some cross the lines. Pat brought us a video of one of the […]

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Honeyvine Milkweed

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Ampelamus albidus Milkweed in all of its manifestations is the plant of the year because it is the host plant for the monarch butterfly. Other than the common milkweed there are other species of milkweed that the monarch caterpillar will feed on. We are all familiar with butterfly weed and swamp milkweed that are all […]

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Ladybells

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Ladybell

             We have a new/old plant to review this month. In our last garden club sale we had several ladybells. This bellflower look alike was growing wild when we bought the land on which we are currently living. No one had lived there for years and there were a number […]

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