An odd looking sight; Wild raspberries being opportunists and calling first dibs on a small rotting log. updrooted tree rootballs often got covered by similar opportunists.
Tag: forest
A wild white aster colony in part of the forest. Would give a genus/species but… IDing native/wild asters was never my strongsuit. I honestly have no clue.
A cute little colony of Starry False Solomons Seal (Maianthemum stellatum).
Appears I had just missed their fruiting season.
A Linden or maybe basswood tree? The leaf side makes me think Basswood.
I don’t get much opportunity to ID trees in the wilds normally. Its good practice to clear off the plant ID rust.
3 different deciduous tree sapling species; a species of white oak (? burr oak?, you’ll see its momma in a different post), Elm, and Sugar Maple.
They’ll probably stay small till the forest canopy opens up for some tasty sunlight for them to bulk up on.
Wild Jacks (Arisaema triphyllum)
Looks like the wildlife are gleaning off some of their berries. My garden ones (fortunately) never get eaten by wildlife. With the bumbercrop at home I left the forest’s Jacks be.
Both Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) and Poison Ivy Toxicodendron radicans) thrive in this forest. Though the Virginia Creeper is far scarcer, with only one location where I saw a population. Poison Ivy was hiding in almost any nook where you could have your guard down. Luckily climbing poison ivy I only saw in 3 different locations.
Interesting how the Virginia Creeper is ahead of the Poison Ivy for the autumn colours though.
Same part of the creek photographed from the opposite sides of it (notice the trees with the distinctive curve from the base of their trunks). Basically discovered the south side of the creek would lead me away from the forest so had to trek ALL THE WAY back to the road the retrack my path from the north side.
First pic I had taken from that woodland walk livetweeting (and where I chose THE WRONG SIDE OF THE CREEK).
This forest is well known for heavy poison ivy colonies (luckily encountered less than I expected) and is heavily protected by a thicket barrier of Hawthorns/Pears in the East/South side.
Dad:”you could go through that side of the forest creek and avoid the poison ivy”
My Internal Thoughts:”Oh, maybe I’ll find a different wildflower growing over in that area since the poison ivy won’t hinder/limit me. I doubt I’ll find groundnut vine but you never know-”
Dad:”The cattle used to be let out there so they grazed most of it out”
My Internal Thoughts:”SCRATCH THAT, THE CHANCES HIT THE ROCKS!”
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