Cumming Nature Center visit:
Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 10 am
Sarah Jacoby-Murphy is Cumming Nature Center's Director. She will lead us as we visit a rare upland bog site to look for
sundews, view beaver-created ponds and meadows, identify flowers and
fungi, and reflect on some poetry and prose about nature and flowers.
It was a gorgeous morning as we met for a gentle stroll on the Helen Gordon Trail.
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| We took the Helen Gordon Trail in purple |
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| Red trillium - (yellow blooms) |
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| American Beech tree |
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| bracken fern |
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| Bracken fern |
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| Nipplewort |
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| Royal Fern |
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| There were several plaques created by Jerry Czech along the trail |
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| Discussing Hemlock Woolly Adelgid management |
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| helleborine |
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| colt's foot |
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| goldenrod | |
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| Water Hemlock |
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| Lots of turtle head! |
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| field horsetails |
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| Jack in the Pulpit with seeds |
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| asters |
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| Joe pie weed |
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| funnel weaver spider nest |
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| spotted Jewel weed and turtle head |
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| blue aster |
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| Canada Mayflower leaves and mosses |
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| sundew |
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| boneset |
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| hog peanut |
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| meadow rue |
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| wood frog - tiny |
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| Turtle heads were a favorite for the bees |
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| the work of leaf cutter bees |
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| wintergreen |
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| partridge berry leaves |
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| cucumber root |
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| Tinder polypores (growth direction depend on if they began when tree was standing or felled) |
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| lady slipper leaves |
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| clubmoss |
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| goldthread with moss and ferns |
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| club moss |
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| ghost pipes |
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| Christmas fern |
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| teal elf cup |
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| wild geranium |
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| barberry :( |
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| Virginia Creeper |
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| Possibly Virgin's bower (white flowers) |
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| grey dogwood |
Incomplete species list:
American Beech trees, blue aster, Boneset, Bracken fern, Cananda
Mayflower leaves, Cat tails, Christmas fern, Cinnamon fern, Club mosses, Coltsfoot,
Flat top aster, Funnel weaver spider web, Ghost pipes, Goldthread, Green headed
coneflowers, Grey dogwood, Hay scented fern, Helleborine, Hemlock, Hog peanut, Horsetail, Intermediate
fern, Interrupted fern, Ironwood/muscle tree, Jack in the pulpit in fruit, Joe
Pie Weed, Lady fern, Lady slipper leaves, Leaves eaten by leafcutter bees, Mayapple,
Meadow rue, Nipplewort, Ostrich fern, Partridge berry leaves, Red pines, Red
trillium (yellow flowers), Royal fern, Sensitive fern, Snakeroot, Spotted orange
jewelweed, Sundew, Swamp goldenrod, Teal elf cup, Tinder polypore (hoof
fungus), Turtleheads, Virgin’s bower, Virginia creeper, Water hemlock, White
wood aster, Wild cucumber root, Willow herb, Winterberry, Wood frog,
