Saturday, April 29: Spring Ephemeral Wildflower walk

 

Saturday, April 29, 2023    10 AM at Domine Trail in Fishers, NY

   Spring Ephemeral Wildflower walk to enjoy woodland plants bursting with joy for just a short time.  We will meet at the parking lot behind Fishers Fire Station (CR 42, Main Street Fishers) and walk the Auburn Trail to the Domine Trail.  A wander through nearby Fishers Park may also happen afterwards if anyone is interested.  These are wooded trails.  Hiking poles welcome!

It was a cool morning with light rain when four members went to check on the spring ephemeral plants along the Domine trail.   

We met behind the Fishers Fire Station

Entrance to Auburn Trail

Mullein along the Auburn Trail

Bridge to Domine Trails from Auburn Trail

May Apple and White Trillium

May Apples and Wild Ramps with Kettle Ridge maple sap lines

Wild Geranium early on in our walk

Wild Geranium in bloom later on

several wake robin trilliums

usually on their own

White Trillium

generally in groups

Even a four leafed trillium stem

Lots of Blue Cohosh!

Trout Lily

Many trout lilies were past bloom

Most did not seem to like the rain

An app was used to determine this as Blisterwort

Herb Robert

poison ivy with bloodroot leaves

Little Leaf Buttercup

Horsetails: Equisetum is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants, which reproduce by spores rather than seeds.

toothwort

Cutleaf ttothwort

spring beauty

ramps and sprouting false solomen's seal

something in the onion family

hepatica

violets

young elderberry

young asters

young fern

may apple with blossom bud

Do you see mayapple, ramps,spring beauty, and trillium?

dead nettle

crown vetch

invasive garlic mustard

  Also seen but not photographed:

several mosses, ferns, and red current