Flora

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Afternoon on a Hill”



Some of the plants that grow wild in this area:

  • Atlantic Aster – Radula
  • Beach Pea – Lathyrus japonicus
  • Birdsfoot trefoil – Lotus corniculatus
  • Bramble – Blackberry – Rubus fructicosus
  • Bog Aster – Nemoralis
  • Bunchberry – Comus canadensis
  • Buttercup, Tall/Creeping – Ranunculus acris L./R. repens L.
  • Bracken Fern – Pteridium aquilinum
  • Coltsfoot – Tussilago farfara
  • Common burdock – Arctium minus
  • Common Sow Thistle – Hare’s Lettuce – Sonchus oleraceus
  • Cow Vetch – vicia cracca
  • Dandelion – Taraxacum officinale
  • Goldie’s Fern – Dryopteris goldiana
  • Heal-all – Carpenter’s Herb – Prunella vulgaris
  • Interrupted Fern – Osmunda claytoniana
  • Morning Glory – Convolvulus arvensis
  • Ox-eye Daisy – Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
  • Pasture Rose – Rosa Virginiana and/or carolina
  • Pearly everlasting – Moonshine – Anaphalis margaritacea
  • Pink Lady’s Slipper – Cypripedium acaule
  • Plantain, common – Plantago major
  • Queen Anne’s Lace – Wild Carrot – Daucus carota
  • Rhodora – Rhododendron canadense
  • Rough-stemmed Goldenrod – Solidago rugoso Miller
  • Sorrel – Rumex acetosa
  • Strawberry (wild) – Fragaria vesca
  • White Aster – Umbellatus
  • Wild Raspberry – Rubus idaeus
  • Wood Sorrel – Oxalis acetosella
  • Yellow Sorrel – Oxalis Stricta

Tips for identifying flowers can be found in my post
How to Identify Flowers

Resources:

http://www.nswildflora.ca/FrameSpecies.html

http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/nh/

http://www.ontariowildflower.com/

http://www.blupete.com/Nature/Wildflowers/Wild.htm

Flora McKie ~ 1894-1976

Flora McKie 1894-1976

3 Responses to “Flora”

  1. Connie Attwood Says:

    November 8, 2008 at 7:58 am

    Dear Amy Lynn,
    The plant St. John’s Wort (known in homeopathic world as Hypericum Perforatum)grows in neglected soil in both Halifax area and Cape Breton and when picked with flowers (whole plant but root)and steeped in strong drinking alcohol placed on a sunny windowsill until it turns a deep yellow is the most wonderful antiseptic! Better than anything you can buy in the stores. A wonderful book describing the medicinal uses for plants is written by Dorothy Shepherd “A Physician’s Posy” a first world war doctor who often had nothing but plant extracts to treat her patients. C

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  2. flandrumhill Says:

    November 8, 2008 at 8:25 am

    Thanks for the suggestion Connie. It would probably grow here. I will try to find one to either transplant or start from seed.

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  3. w1kkp Says:

    December 26, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    Oh, now I see that you are absolutely right about my “reeds”!! This is fun, I’m going to learn from you the names of things!!

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