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Right Here, Right Now March 1

Three days of very early spring.

p1000304 — Spicebush buds about to burst into flower near post # 19 – our earliest blooming shrub

p1000318 — and these have burst – a bush with earlier timing

Lovely spring weather mixed with a sense of unease. This is a simple post, documenting just what I noticed in the forest during three days this past week. We will have no extravagant displays of wildflowers to show you, just a few little patches here and there. So I get to notice the other stuff, as it happens day by day.

102_5510 — Eastern Comma, Polygonia comma, reliably early because it hibernates

102_6219 — Bristly red canes of Wineberry, Rubus phoenicolasius. Native to Asia, it is not very invasive in our forest.

102_6117 — tiny pop-ups – a bedstraw and something in the parsley family. ID please?

102_6244 — This and the pic below are from a place the deer can’t go to. It makes a difference. This little spring fed marsh-in-recovery would be a trampled muckhole if they could walk in it. Bright green rosettes are of Great blue lobelia, Lobelia siphilitica, grown from seed.

102_6240 — Same marsh as above – new shoots of transplanted Allegheny monkeyflower, Mimulus ringens. This plant is uncommon in our forest.

p1000319 — Old fox scat with some new additions in the form of shiny seeds. One appears to be germinating. This pic is a good lesson in seed dispersal.

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