Flowers in bloom on: Sept. 5, 2019 [map on reverse; asterisks indicate best guess, the is under study; plant names 95% from Peterson]

1 Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria 13 Red Turtlehead Chelone obliqua 2 Swamp Smartweed Persicaria coccinea 14 Broad-leaved Arrowhead Sagittaria latifolia 3 Leafy-bracted Beggar-ticks Bidens tripartita 15 Silver-rod Solidago bicolor 4 Straw-colored Flatsedge Cyperus strigosus 16 Great Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica 5 Common Skullcap Scutellaria epilobiifolia 17 White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricatus 6 Mild Water-pepper Persicaria hydropiperoides 18 Panicled Hawkweed Hieracium paniculatum 7 Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata 19 Sneezeweed Helenium autumnale 8 Spotted St. Johnswort Hypericum punctatum 20 *Sweet Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium purpureum 9 Closed Gentian Gentiana andrewsii 21 Tuberous Water-lily Nymphaea tuberosa 10 New York Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis 22 Sweet Goldenrod Solidago odora 11 Cardinal-flower Lobelia cardinalis 23 Turtlehead Chelone glabra 12 Spotted Touch-me-not 24 *Spotted Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium maculatum

Highlights of The Woods

Impatiens pallida Annual Fleabane Erigeron annuus Pale Touch-me-not Lythrum salicaria Asiatic Dayflower Commelina communis Purple Loosestrife Eurybia schreberi Clearweed Pilea pumila *Schreber’s or Wavy-leaved Aster or Symphyotrichum undulatum Ditch Stonecrop [barely] Small White Aster Symphyotrichum racemosum Dodder gronovii *Spotted Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium maculatum Great Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica Spotted Touch-me-not Impatiens capensis Halberd-leaved Tearthumb Persicaria arifolia *Sweet Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium purpureum Hog-peanut Amphicarpaea bracteata Turtlehead Chelone glabra Indian-tobacco Lobelia inflata Virginia Knotweed Persicaria virginiana Lady’s-thumb Persicaria maculosa White Cutgrass Leersia virginica Leafy-bracted Beggar-tick Bidens tripartita White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima Mild Water-pepper Persicaria hydropiperoides White Wood Aster Eurybia *Nodding Bur-marigold Bidens cernua Oxalis stricta Epilobium glandulosum Yellow Wood-sorrel Northern Willow-herb

Notes for this week and a link for Bonnie’s pictures at https://everthinkgreen.blogspot.com/. For the most part we mark blooms only at first sighting, but they may pop up elsewhere on the Island as well.