Category: Field trip

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Funnel-lily on weekend expedition

Hiking with Paula and Briar today. We saw several cool early spring plants, as well as first of season for us on Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Black-and-white Warbler.

Thanks to Mom for identification of carrot-leaf lomatium!
A common spring favorite! Fringed puccoon!
As we were about to leave, I saw a little hill that looked like it might have interesting lichen rocks or something else good there. Sure enough!! Paula found blue funnel-lilies! Two plants. The other had two buds.
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A bit more cast iron forest this afternoon, not just the garden!

Probably a Common Buckeye butterfly caterpillar.
Neat shelf fungi on a blackjack oak that has been burned in the past.
Spring Beauty flower. Saw just a few!
Moss with undeveloped capsules (thanks Jeanne!)
Mexican Plums blooming had just a few bees on them. It was windy.
Briar helped look for frogs.
A round bit of moss.
Close up of Mexican Plum flowers.
Cardamine sp. (Thanks for ID, Abby!) You can see the leaves/rosette here.
Flower of Cardamine sp. There were lots in this damp area. You can see in both pictures some nearby sedges.