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BLUEBELLS at Mertensia Park

 Join us on Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 10 am for a walk among the bluebells at Mertensia Park in Victor/Farmington.  We will meet under the Rotarian sign next to the tennis courts and walk north along Mudd Creek.  In addition to bluebells (mertensia), we will likely see spent trout lilies and blood root.  Violets, meadow rue, cutleaf toothwort, solomon's seal, colts foot, Jack-in-the-Pulpit and other plants will be emerging. We will meet rain or shine.  It's advisable to wear boots as stretches of the path may be wet/muddy.

 Here's what Mertensia Park looked like on April 28, 2022:

Getting ready for full bloom


cut leaf toothwort


Chilly day for the trout lilies
 
White adder's tongue or trout lily?


What a GORGEOUS Saturday to wander through the Mertensia on May 7th.  Here are a few images I captured:

Jack in the Pulpit



More Jacks




Colt's foot gone to seed


Sunbather

70th year enjoying the bluebells for Mother's Day!



Choke Cherry

Trout lily

Canadian Mayflower

White trout lily (Adder's tongue?)

May Apples

Blood root leaves


Botanical walkers


overlooking Mud Creek







trout lily and violets


white violets lining the trail north




Spring walk with Victor Hiking Trails

 On a sunny Sunday, April 24th a group of two dozen folks met behind the Fishers Fire Station to hike a bit of the Auburn Trail to the Domine trail.  We then crossed over Wagnum Road and wandered through parts of Fishers Park.  Here's some of what we saw:


wild leeks / ramps

Hepatica

Blue Cohosh

May Apple and Blue Cohosh

Spring Beauty

psathyrella species

Hepatica???

Hepatica

Bloodroot

Trout Lily

cup fungi

Wake Robin Trilium

Herb Robert ???


Trout Lily

White Trilium

purple/red dead nettle

Please let us know...

closer view of unknown

English ground daisies

meadow rue

colts foot (flowers before the leaves emerge)



speedwells

Angelica and skunk cabbage
cutleaf toothwort
cutleaf toothwort

wild geranium leaves?

Vernal pool


bloodroot

colts foot

Map of Fishers Park