Tune in to the Time Out Radio Show on Saturday, June 28 to hear Dr. Bruce Gilman and Laura Ouimette chat with Jeff Miller about our Canandaigua Botanical Society.
Friday, June 27 at
Wild Orchids of Western New York,
Spotting an orchid in the wild can be a thrill. Some are eye-catching and spectacularly colorful. Others are small and harder to find and identify. In this presentation, Fred Haynes will discuss the wild orchids he has seen and photographed in western New York State and the parks, preserves and habitats where they are found.
We will learn identifying features and the unique parasitic and symbiotic relationships some species have with other plants and fungi in the woodlands and wetlands.
This event is a joint offering for BANC members and the Canandaigua Botanical Society.
The evening will begin with a potluck supper. For dinner, bring your place setting and a dish to pass that will serve 8 to 12 people. If you are unable to join us for supper, you can still attend the program, which should begin shortly after 7:00 pm.
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Please send an email to canandaiguabotanical@gmail.com if you are able to help with set-up or clean-up or if you'd like to carpool from Canandaigua.
Here are just a few images from Fred's Orchid talk:
Celebrate National Trails Day
along the Ontario Pathways trail in Stanley, NY
We will meet at the Stanley parking lot at 10 AM on Saturday, June 7th and walk a mile west to the bridge over Flint Creek. Upon our return to the Stanley parking lot you may like a short stroll north to enjoy the third installment of the Ontario County Arts Council Ontario Pathways Artwork.
The sky was hazy with Canada wildfire smoke but it was not raining and we had bug repellent and insect netting to keep us from being eaten. There were four Botanical members and four Pathways members with two more who belong to both, making ten total and Violet the pup. Tim suggested we walk "quickly" to the Great Stanley Bridge and take our time to botanize on the return. Interestingly, there was a lot of pale swallow wort in bloom, but I took no photos of the dreaded invasive.
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| Ontario Pathways parking lot where the trail heads northwest and northeast |
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| cottonwood tree |
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| Tim points out the only rail that still exists along the Ontario Pathways |
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| White Campion |
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| We saw several butterflies |
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| bloodroot past bloom |
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| racoon track |
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| mugwort - invasive |
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| crownvetch |
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| mullein |
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| Christmas fern |
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| native yarrow along side Sweet William (garden escapee) |
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| Great Stanley Bridge is 362 feet in length |
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| Tiger moth caterpillar on Dame's Rocket |
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| deadly nightshade growing along the bridge edge |
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| "created" ties and original ties used to restore the train bridge |
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| The bridge is normally 44 feet above Flint Creek. This day probably 41 feet due to rise of creek. |
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| Our National Trails Day walkers |
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| Saint John's wort? |
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| Avens |
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| cinquefoil |
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| invasive honeysuckle |
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| This showed up as "common toad flax" on an app |
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| floras on the ground |
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| hawkweed |
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| many damselflies |
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| fleabane |
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| lots of "introduced" dame's rocket. This has four petals. Phlox has five petals. |
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| very happy/healthy native poison ivy with berries growing up a tree |
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| Virginia Waterleaf |
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| burdock etc.. |
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| chokecherry |
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| clover and mouse ear chickweed |
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| Goatsbeard |
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| acrobatic caterpillar |
