Revrunner

So common in these parts that I suspect many people pass by these Rudbeckia (aka Black-eyed Susans) without a second thought. But then I th...

Make me a picture of the sun -- So I can hang it in my room -- And make believe I'm getting warm When others call it "Day"! Dr...

High Knob Tower Trail George Washington National Forest

High Knob Tower Trail George Washington National Forest

Hightop Mountain Trail Shenandoah National Park "In spring and summer, the small blue and yellow flowers of bluets or Quaker ladies ( H...

Took the Tower Road coming down from Mount Toby's summit, which had its own rewards. The first was finding this Indian Pipe (above) gro...

I grew up calling this plant Queen Anne's Lace, even though I recognized somewhere in the back of my mind that others called it Wild Car...

 

  Beaver Trail, York River State Park Smallanthus uvedalia (aka Bear's Foot) Beaver Trail

I returned this past week to York River State Park where I discovered a new kind of thistle blooming. A certain variety of the plume thistle...

 

Pine Island Sanctuary Nature Trail

    " T he species grows as an emergent plant, that is, in flooded conditions, so the plant is generally dependent upon aerenchyma in t...