Midsummer Impromptu Field trip

 Tuesday, July 25, 2023   10 AM

Ontario Pathways  

Please plan to join us as we check out the summer plants along Ontario Pathways south towards the train wreck loops.  We'll also talk about ideas and plans for our sesquicentennial.

There's plenty of parking at the blue arrow on Railroad Ave/Waddell Rd between 488 and 23 in the hamlet of Orleans, NY.

It was a sunny and warm Tuesday morning when 5 members met for a walk along Ontario Pathways south of the Orleans water tower. It was also VERY BUGGY!

knapweed

chicory

black walnut and female sumac

yellow jewelweed/touch-me-not and mugwort

still in the parking area, poison ivy with jewelweed in the back

dryad's saddle

phlox (bordering next door property)

woodland phlox (five petals)

crown vetch

moth mullein

pin cherry

dogwood

invasive swallowort

invasive European buckthorn

pale swallowort flowers

fuzzy stems of sumac

oak tree

lance-leafed coreopsis

cinquefoil

red baneberry

bedstraw and bloodroot leaves

splitgill

shy fleebane

hickory tussock moth

false solomon seal

Anemone virginiana - thimble weed

Train wreck loop along Flint Creek

black-foot polypore

whorled loostrife

agrimony

saint john's wort

yellow jewelweed 

lots of tall meadow rue in bloom

joe pye weed

American germander

moneywort (creeping Jenny?)

monkeyflower

pigskin poison puffball

ghost pipe

False solomon seal, mayapple, periwinkle/Myrtle

periwinkle, meadow rue, false solomon seal, poison ivy

trying to determine golden alexander/zizia or gout weed

bishop's goutweed along Flint creek

pale jelly roll fungi

wild leeks - ramp flowers

bladder nut

more meadow rue

gray's sedge

confused haploa moths

great blue lobelia

may apple

poison ivy

herb Robert

sumac - fuzzy stems

moth mullein

jack-in-the pulpit berries

we watched two woodpeckers high up in the trees - flicker?

This monarch welcomed me home after our walk