Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 10 AM
Our Sesquicentennial walk at Domine
Walk the Domine Trails with the Canandaigua Botanical Society to see early spring
wildflowers. We will meet in the parking lot behind the fire hall in
Fishers at 10 AM. (7853 Main St Fishers, Victor, NY 14564)
It was a rainy start but cleared enough to enjoy an early spring walk. This will be a great location to visit in the next two weeks as temperatures warm and ephemerals bloom.
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| Warmer, but wetter this year. |
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| greater celandine (not invasive) |
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| mullein |
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| bittercress |
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| Nostoc algae (bitter oyster) |
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| LOTS of ramps/wild leeks |
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| meadow chives |
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| We met Joe Hurley of Kettle Ridge Farm after pulling taps |
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| A large northern red oak! |
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| Christmas fern |
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wild leek and cutleaf toothwort leaves
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| a closer look at the gall |
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fruiting body of the moss and sporophytes
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| Again, we saw many scarlet cups this year! |
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| marcescent beech (holding onto leaves) |
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| black cohosh emerging |
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| hepatica (last year's leaves) |
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| kidney leaf buttercups |
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| Pennsylvania Sedge |
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| Avens leaves |
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| bedstraw / cleavers |
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| intermediate evergreen woodfern |
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| salamander found near scarlet cup |
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| scouring rush on slope to creek |
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| capturing hepatica flowers |
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| hepatica flower and last year's leaves |
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| skunk cabbage |
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| beech drops (find them along beech roots) |
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| garter snake |
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| treemoss |
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| turkey tail fungus |
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| sporophytes |
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| spring beauties |
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| bloodroots |
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| did not find salamander eggs in vernal pool this year |
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| six acorns on oak branch |
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| flowering grass |
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| Kettle Run taps |
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| Thanks to Barb M for these images! | |
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| the Plantman and his favorite tree |
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| tulip tree top |
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| waterleaf |
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| beech bark spots |
It was a WET and
rainy morning to start. Temperature was 49’.
Species seen
included: Avens, Beech drops, Beechbark spots, Bitter oyster (Nostoc algae), Black cohosh buds,
Bloodroot, Cleavers/bedstraw, Galls, Garlic mustard, garter snake, greater celandine, Hepatica, Herb Robert,
Intermediate evergreen wood fern, Kidney leaf buttercup, Meadow chive,
Mullein, Pennsylvania sedge, Redback salamander, Scarlet cup, Scouring rush/horsetail,
Skunk cabbage, Sporophytes, Tree moss Trout lily leaves, Turkey tail,
Waterleaf, and Wild leeks/ramps. Many
trees were marked with new signs: Northern Red Oak, Basswood, Black Willow,
Staghorn Sumac, Black Cherry, Black Walnut, White Ash, Shagbark Hickory, Tulip
Poplar, Red Maple, Eastern Cottonwood, Sugr Maple, Hophornbeam (Ironwood).
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