SarraceniaSarracenia Volume 17, Number 4. Winter 2010 ISSNs: 1920-5821 (Print) 1920-583X (Online)

Newsletter of the Wildflower Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. C/o Botanical Garden, Memorial University, St John's, NL, A1C 5S7 e-mail: [email protected]

Contents A Note from the Editor, Christmas Competition, Upcoming meetings...... 48 The Northern Peninsula in Spring by Leila Clase...... 48 Avalonia Field Trip Memories: Day Two. Monday July 20 2009 By Ed Hayden...... 50 2009 Photo-competition: Second Place winners...... 55

Geranium robertianum & Rhizocarpon geographicum at Point Verde, (see p. 54) Judith Blakeley Sarracenia Vol. 17 #4

A Note from the Editor. from the wild. It recently came to my attention that so far there have Associated winter walk. Place time and date TBA, but th been only three issues in volume 17 (not counting the probably Sunday afternoon, February 7 . Christmas special) so this is a quick issue to wrap up the Wednesday March 3rd 2010 ,at 7.30 p.m* volume, and get out the volume index. I already have Todd Boland will give a talk and slideshow on the some material for Vol 18#1, but would welcome more. Orchids and other Wild Flowers of Equador. Christmas Competition. *At the Botanical Garden Lecture Room. Sadly there were only three entries, all correct apart The 2009-10 Executive President: Carmel Conway 722-0121 from one minor typo from: John Maunder, Mike Collins [email protected] and Stuart Hay. The prize was awarded to Stuart, as the Vice-President: John Maunder 335-2462 other two already had a copy of the book. I was Past President: Glenda Quinn 834-8588 disappointed not to get more entries; it wasn't that Secretary: Heather Saunders 368-6935 difficult really, some of the names were a bit odd of Treasurer & course, but the context should have helped too. Membership Sec: Karen Herzberg 753-6568 [email protected] Editor: Howard Clase 753-6415 Upcoming meetings. Board Members: Judith Blakeley 437-6852 Wednesday February 3rd 2010 ,at 7.30 p.m*. Todd Boland 753-6027 A talk/workshop by Mike Collins on “Identifying Helen Jones 437-6852 Ross Traverse 437-5539 in winter, and the animals that feed on them”. You are Alan Whittick 753-0626 positively encouraged to bring specimens, especially

The Northern Peninsula in Spring by Leila Clase {This is the very first article published in our Newsletter, in Fall 1990, and contains the solution to the Christmas 2009 competition – the names printed in red type. Since this was written before the publication of “Sue's list” some of the Linnean names have changed, the current ones have been added in curly brackets. Names in bold type (any colour) are those in the 2000 edition of the list.} The Annual General Meeting of the Canadian for sure from a fast moving bus until Dianne McLeod Rhododendron Society was hosted by the Botanical confirmed that it was Red Maple (Acer rubrum), one of Garden at Oxen Pond in early June this year. To provide the two native maples in Newfoundland. This is not the the registrants with a chance to see Newfoundland native nurseryman's Red Maple, which name refers to the red rhododendrons and other ericaceous plants in their foliage. Acer rubrum gets its name from the red female native habitat a post-conference tour was organized to flowers, which cover the tree like a red veil before the the west coast of Newfoundland. I was one of the lucky green leaves appear. The male flowers, usually on a 23 people to take part in that tour. We saw many separate tree, are yellowish. beautiful and interesting plants during the trip. The The same day, still on the bus journey, we got a following is a summary of the highlights. glimpse of a big patch of Marsh Marigolds (Caltha The first thrill came as soon as we had left the palustris) in boggy ground along the Trans Isthmus: graceful trees covered in red haze standing Highway after the Springdale turn-off. Later we were to here and there among the mixed forest, still deciduously see them again and again in great profusion in the Gros bare. The bus was abuzz with “What is it? What is it?" as Morne area where willow bushes grow in roadside we leafed through our "Glen Ryans" (Trees and Shrubs ditches and other wet places. of Newfoundland) , but of course it was difficult to identify The first of the two whole days at Gros Morne was

- 48 - Sarracenia Vol. 17 #4 devoted to the Western Brook Pond boat trip, which also The next day we travelled further north along the meant pleasant 3 km hiking and botanizing each day . coast stopping in selected places to look at the flora. The The plants that stand out from this trip in my memory species that augmented my list on that day were Starry include Three-leaved False Solomon's seal (Smilacina False Solomon's seal (Smilacina stellata, trifolia, {Maianthemum trifolium}), Twisted-stalk {Maianthemum stellatum}) by a picnic site at the (Streptopus amplexifolius), Alder-leaved Buckthorn entrance to the Western Brook Pond trail and such (Rhamnus alnifolia), and Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia calcium loving plants as azoides, S. nudicaulis). The last one of these particularly made an oppositifolia and Mountain Avens (Dryas integrifolia). impression in the way its newly emerged, still purple As we travelled further north to Hare Bay and to Boat leaves glistened in the afternoon sun. There were also Harbour, both recognized sites for three different kinds of violets and three or four different communities, we had many more exciting sightings of kinds of currants/gooseberries to be seen. I remember rare plant species, above all Lapland Rosebay those if only as an opportunity lost to sort out what they (Rhododendron lapponicum) and Alpine Azalea were, because of shortage of time, knowledge and (Loiseleuria procumbens). We also saw a little blue technical aids. anemone, Anemone parviflora, and two native primulas Primula laurentiana and P. mistassinica, both very The second day in Gros Morne was largely devoted delicate and tiny. At Boat Harbour we had the good to climbing the mountain. Only about half of our party fortune of spotting all three bearberries close together. went right to the top and were justly rewarded with sights There was the evergreen Arctostaphulos uva-ursi. the of rare alpine plants. I particularly coveted them the sight alpine, A. alpina {Arctous alpina} and the red-berried A. of Mountain Heath (Phyllodoce caerulea), because the rubra {Arctous rubra}, the latter still complete with last chances of seeing it elsewhere are slim. However even year's berries. those of us who went only to the upper plateau enjoyed our climb tremendously and the sights it afforded us, both On our way west the Rhodora (Rhododendron plants and scenery. The blueberry flowers in their canadense) - to my mind the Newfoundland multiplicity were at their prettiest. Many of the small rhododendron par excellence - was not much in plants of the boreal forest floor such as Starflower evidence, but a week had done the trick so that on our (Trientalis europeus , {Trientalis borealis}), Canada way back the bright pink and purple patches by the road- Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), Clintonia side caused our mainland and overseas visitors nearly to (Clintonia borealis), and Goldthread (Coptis miss their flights at Deer Lake as they searched for the groenlandica, {Coptis trifolia}) were just emerging but best specimen to be photographed. The next plant recognizable in mid-June. Here, too, the spring had been always seemed more beautiful than the one before. very late. Undoubtedly the star attraction was the For the most part I have mentioned only those species Trailing Arbutus (Epigea repens). I remember in the which seem "exotic" from the vantage point of St. John's past crawling on all fours trying to catch a glimpse of it at and vicinity, but naturally one could make a plant list as the Oxen Pond peat beds and even then usually missing long as one's arm and then multiply it by the seasons. It the best bloom. No such need here. It spread was an inspiring start for a summer's botanizing, and I everywhere its fragrant luminous, sometimes pink-tinged hope there will be many more such trips, perhaps under flowers and ever-green leaves along the steeply rising the auspices of the Wildflower Society? slopes.

Solution Callahan Palestrina = Caltha pallustris; Chrysanthemum trifocals = Maiathemum trifolium; Streptococcus amplifications = Streptopus amplifolius; Rhombus manifold = Rhamnus alnifolia; Amalia syndicalism = Aralia nudicaulis; Phylogenetic cerulean = Phyllodoce caerulea; Orientalist Boreas = Trientalis borealis; Mathematician Canadianism = Maianthemum canadense; Clinton arboreal = Clintonia borealis; Coptic trifling = Coptis trifolia; Epigram repents = Epigea repens; Maidservant stellated = Maianthemum stellatum; Suffragan Azores = Saxifraga azoides; Suffragist oppositional = ; Drays integrability = Dryas integrifolia; Rhododendron Napoleonic = Rhododendron lapponicum; Noiseless procurements = Loiseleuria procumbens; Anemone parlormaid = Anemone parviflora; Primula Laurent = Primula laurentiana; Primula mistakable = Primula mistassinica; Staphylococcus Suva-ursi = Arctostaphulos uva-ursi; Arcturus alpine = Arctous alpina; Arctics rubric = Arctous rubra

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Avalonia Field Trip Memories: Day Two. Monday July 20 2009 By Ed Hayden

(Note: “Avalonia Field Trip Memories: Day One” appeared in Sarracenia 17(3), Fall 2009)

Collins Pond but there the similarity ends. One it being a common plant of ponds As I pulled into The Wilds resort has to look closely to see that the and streams, but I am ashamed to on Salmonier Line at 8:30 a.m., the plants are flowering. With five tiny say that I have never noticed it last few sleepy-headed stragglers white petals, the flowers are vastly before. However, in that little culvert were moseying towards their cars, different from those of either the pool in the morning light, in the calm and John Maunder was getting a Yellow Pond Lily or the White Water after yesterday’s storm, we stood convoy underway for the day’s Lily (Nymphaea odorata) with their entranced by the Pondweed, its adventure. We drove south on the numerous, much larger, showy bright green, cranberry red and light Salmonier Line and at St. Catherine’s petals. Surprisingly, Floating Hearts brown elongated leaves waving in turned east on Highway 91 the gentle flow of the stream towards Colinet. At our first (See Figure 2 as well as stop, Collins Pond, opposite additional images of many of the North Harbour Road our 23 species of junction, we wildflower Potamogeton at John enthusiasts were excited to Maunder’s Digital Flora find hundreds of the seldom- website.) seen Floating Hearts Rushes and sedges were (Nymphoides cordata) in abundant all around us, bloom, the tiny white flowers, looking vibrant after a brief less than a centimetre wide, morning shower. From this rising just above the leaf magical little watering hole, blade on the water (Figure where a few fairies must 1). Figure 2: Potamageton epihydrus. surely linger late of an The enthusiasm of my colleagues are members of the Buckbean family. evening, we peered through the tall was infectious as I sat on a rock at Across the road, a small stream Glyceria Grass (Glyceria sp.) and the the edge of the pond and watched emanating from Collins Pond Meadow Rue (Thalictrum pubescens) the morning sun dapple on small, emptied from a culvert into a shallow at a wide, shallow peat pond choppy waves. The floating green aquatic ecosystem about three by six stretching away below us. We pass and red leaves are similar to those of metres, protected by alders and other by glorious little spots like this all the the Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar tall shrubs and shaded from the road time and don’t give them a second variegata) except for their small size, by a guardrail. We lingered there thought. This morning’s sun, below the road on two strips however, with clouds whisking by of gravel that spread out overhead, throwing shadows in our from both sides of the paths, and John pointing to this and culvert, enamored by the that, made us pay attention to the vivid colours of the floating vivid colours of grasses in the wind leaves of the Ribbonleaf and leaves swaying in the stream. Pondweed (Potamogeton What a cheering up it gave us, this epihydrus) (‘epi’ – on top of; lush, little microcosm at the side of ‘hydrus’ – water). the road across from Collins Pond. I think I shall always be reminded of I daresay that I’ve seen this sweet culvert spot when I see Figure 1 Photo: Gene Herzberg Pondweed numerous times, Pondweed again. - 50 - Sarracenia Vol. 17 #4

Cape St. Mary’s Seabird cluster of reddish bulbils tightly the grassy knoll at the top of Hay- Ecological Reserve arranged along the stalk below. den’s Point and peer out through the Whether the tide is high or low, These bulbils eventually drop off and arm, past the navigation light on the drive south along the North grow directly into new adult plants; Eastern Point and across the Reach, Harbour Road is always stunning, hence the name “vivipara,” meaning through the narrow opening between and this morning was no exception, “live birth" (Fig. 3). Long Island and Marticot Island, with the beach and harbour glistening trying to locate a blinking light, 72 km in the sun on our left and Colinet across Placentia Bay, on the light- Island in the distance. The morning house at Cape St. Mary’s. It was sunshine, however, was short-lived. rare to see it, or perhaps we didn’t When we turned inland to cross the look often enough, as three barrens, we met the fog. By the time conditions had to be just right: no we arrived at Cape St. Mary’s at 11 moon, no fog and no waves. In a.m., it was so thick that John addition to our fascination with this cautioned us to stay with the group lighthouse so far away, we had heard for fear we’d get lost. Nevertheless, plenty of stories about Golden Bay at we were not dismayed, for the Cape St. Mary’s as the rich fishing booming of the fog horn and the ground for sailing schooners from baaing of sheep was fantastic and Placentia Bay, including my father’s. eerie as we donned fleeces and We were familiar with the images jackets and tied our hoods tight as from tales told by the former crews of we set out to stroll the high meadow. the great hauls of fish, the races Cape St. Mary’s Seabird Ecological home across the bay and the excited Reserve, like the Mistaken Point children running to the wharves to Figure 2 Ecological Reserve near Cape Race, meet them and claim bragging rights. is part of the eastern hyper-oceanic “Did someone lose their There were the stories of disaster, barrens – barrens above the ocean – contacts?” Heather shouted, and we too, of spars and jaws broken in the with vegetation primarily determined all looked up, taking her seriously, “August Gales,” and, sadly, of the by thin soil and days like this. ready to join in the search, until we drowning of my great-grandfather saw her big smile as she shouted to James Hayden at Golden Bay at the Here we found Beachhead Iris us that we all looked like a search age of 41. (Iris setosa), with its petal-like party, bent over and peering at the and true petals reduced to sharply Strolling along the hyper-oceanic ground as we walked slowly along pointed “pips” about a centimetre barren in the fog, we paid little heed the meadow, looking at Common long. Glen Ryan compares our two to what looked like Yellow or Hop Eyebright (Euphrasia nemorosa). native irises, the Blue Flag (Iris Clover until John cried "Aha! Black The common name, Eyebright, is versicolor) and the Beachhead Iris, in Medick (Medicago lupulina), a cousin from this plant’s use by classical the Winter 2009 issue of The Osprey, of Alfalfa." I’d never heard of such a herbalists in treating eye infections, (Journal of the Natural History plant, but, indeed, upon closer look, including conjunctivitis; Euphrasia, Society of Newfoundland and with all of us bent over again, some from the Greek for cheerfulness, may Labrador), accompanied by beautiful kneeling down with pocket lenses allude to the same thing, a bright- illustrations. The Beachhead Iris, out, John pointed out the disting- ening, a livening up. The bright Ryan notes, is typically much smaller uishing feature: a tiny indentation and yellow markings on the lower petal and is restricted to drier environ- sharp point at the tip of each leaflet. act as a guide to pollinating insects. ments with a decidedly coastal In Wild Flowers of Newfoundland, Bill influence; thus the common name. Cape St. Mary’s has fascinated and June Titford point out a charact- The strikingly lovely Alpine Bistort since I was a child. Having grown up eristic of Black Medick that might be (Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre) was in Petite Forte, on the west side - the responsible for the "black” part of its plentiful here, with mostly sterile, Burin Peninsula side - of Placentia common name -- "a clump of curved, white flowers atop an elongated Bay, it was exciting on calm, clear, black seeds which may be mistaken moonless nights in the fall to climb as an infestation of small grubs.”

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This is the bliss of botanizing, “Ah!” said John, “Moonwort and stretch out and say, “I’m not ruminating, paying attention to (Botrychium lunaria), a fern in the going on; this is all I can hold today. minutiae on a summer holiday at the Adder’s Tongue family. The little I’m going to stay here forever.” lighthouse, no meetings to attend, no balls are the sporangia, where the Compare the clusters of phones ringing, no emails dinging, no reproductive spores are formed.” sporangia of the Grape Fern reports to draft, no work of any kind Some people think that the masses (Botrychium lunaria) (Fig 4a) with the to do but stroll along a meadow and of little balls look like bunches of “sori”, or clusters of sporangia, on the be philosophically introspective, if grapes – hence the alternative name underside of the Lady Fern (Athyrium you lean that way, with John noting a “grape-fern.” The “moon” business filix-femina) (Fig 4b). plant here and there that might catch apparently stems from the fact that your fancy – the sheep baaing, the the pinnae (or leaflets) of this little The moment ends, the crowd fog horn booming and Heather fern are more-or-less “half-moon”- strolls on, you walk quickly to catch making fun of us looking like a crowd shaped. up. “The faithful lean steadily into that has lost its contacts. the wind” Thinking of this phrase This is how extraordinary joy rises from Diane Shoemperlen in Forms of I have on occasion walked at in our hearts: we lean in for a close- Devotion, at Cape St. Mary’s, I was Cape St. Mary’s with friends who up view of a plant we’ve passed by awed at the return of another were not 'into plants’ and saw little to dozens of times before without childhood memory of a lighthouse: occupy my attention beyond the paying the slightest heed. We are Mr. Frank Leonard, an old man who amazing excitement of Bird Rock, but awed by its beauty and then, as if lived in The Bottom, standing in his on this day, with John drawing us that weren’t enough, someone says, white punt bucking out through the ever forward, we were like children, in language we understand, here’s arm, past the lighthouse and into the enthralled by the extraordinary joy of what it’s doing in the universe – wind, leaning forward to keep himself seeing the beauty in the detail. We those little green balls, those steady. This is the image I carried as came upon a stunning mass of tiny “grapes” on the Moonwort, they hold we followed John across the meadow yellow-green balls growing out of the reproductive spores. This is how by the lighthouse, confident in the mounds of Moss Campion (Silene a lovely morning can transform into future. acaulis) (which reserve manager sheer delight, trekking around a Tony Power noted had been in bloom meadow in the fog, bundled up in Cape St. Mary’s also evoked three weeks earlier). “Sweet drawstring hoods, and having the memories of To the Lighthouse, Redeemer, John, what is that?” mystery of Moonwort revealed, and Virginia Woolf’s novel set on a Scot- someone asked. you want to lie down on the meadow tish island, overlooked by a distant lighthouse, where Mrs. Ramsay and her eccentric husband and their English family and guests are enjoying the summer. The novel begins with the excitement of a boy about to go on an adventure: “Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” said Mrs. Ramsay. “ you’ll have to be up with the lark,”she added.

To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as if it were settled the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night’s darkness and a day’s sail, within touch.

Figure 3a Figure 4b

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About fifty feet from a white utility dwarf birch (Betula pumila), its leaves boreal having been introduced into shed by the parking lot, we found a more oval and bigger than North America from Eurasia. It is a bird’s nest on the ground, not fallen Newfoundland Dwarf Birch (Betula semi-parasitic plant, which obtains at from a tree or post but built there, in michauxii); and a tiny Northern Green least part of its nutrients via the roots perfectly good order, lodged among Orchid (Platanthera aquilonis), about of other plants. Alpine Bistort, and in it several live seven or eight centimetres high, We identified a variety of ferns, chicks. We walked by so close that which Andrus Voitk lists as one of our too, on the way to Bird Rock, two of we could see the yellow on the most abundant and widespread which I can now identify proudly on insides of their mouths. John orchids, though often inconspicuous my own – Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cautioned us not to linger, and, because of its yellow-green cinnamomea), with a long cinnamon- wanting to be good and decent colouring. coloured stick growing out of its naturalists, we left, though we longed centre, and Long Beech Fern to stay and watch. Presently, the (Phegopteris connectilis), with the mother, a Horned Lark, returned, two bottom pinnae pointing walking towards the nest but giving distinctively backwards in a “V”, as us a wide berth, obviously threatened you can see in the photograph in by this crowd of gawking wildflower Figure 6. enthusiasts. We glanced behind and the photographers were delighted to see and record mother and chicks reunite. “Yes, of course, if it’s fine tomorrow,” I remembered Mrs. Ramsay saying to her son, “but you’ll have to be up with the lark.”

Figure 6

As well, we saw Wood Fern (Dryopteris spp.), Lady Fern Figure 5 (Athyrium filix-femina), and Sensitive John pointed out the Small Purple Fern (Onoclea sensibilis), which, as Fringed Orchid (Platanthera the name suggests, shrivels and dies Photo: Judith Blakely psycodes), with just one flower open on the first cold day of autumn. John Towards the lighthouse, we found to allow us a glimpse of the lip fringe; pointed out Cerastium fontanum and the Scirpus Sedge (Carex Wood Rush (Luzula multiflora), with offered the observation that I was scirpoidea), which John said “stands spiky clusters of brownish flowers happy to take: “a lot of the out like a sore thumb,” as is obvious enclosed in shiny bractlets; and Deer chickweeds look very much alike, in the photograph in Figure 5. Grass (Trichophorum cespitosum), a and many amateur naturalists think main component of Newfoundland it’s too much trouble to try to tell them Many varieties of plants at Cape bogs. Deer Grass is actually not a apart!” St. Mary’s grow low on the ground to grass at all, as it belongs to the accommodate the climate of the Finally, we found Toad Rush Sedge family (Cyperaceae) of grass- hyper-oceanic barrens: clumps of (Juncus bufonius), which John says like herbs usually growing in wet Diapensia (Diapensia lapponica); a gets no respect, (referring, I think, to places. Yellow Bog Rattle miniature Bearberry; Dwarf Willow the fact that it is small and (Rhinanthus minor) was here too. As (Salix uva-ursi) with catkins, the inconspicuous and often gets trodden the name implies, it produces seeds whole plant fully grown at just a few underfoot); Bluntleaf Sandwort that rattle in the capsule when you centimetres tall, forming colonies by (Moehringia lateriflora), like brush up against them as you pass. layering of prostrate branches; a Chickweed but without a split in the Yellow Bog Rattle is now circum-

- 53 - Sarracenia Vol. 17 #4 petal; Marsh Pea (Lathyrus communities afforded panoramic plant has been pointed out to me, so palustris), a relative of the Beach Pea views towards the Placentia Bay I was quite proud to say to John, (Lathyrus japonicus); Marsh Blue islands. “Potamogeton,” and for him to Violet (), Norwegian casually reply, as if it were the most At the bottom of a steep hill, we Cinquefoil (Potentilla norvegica); normal thing in the world, “Yep, turned left onto a dirt lane that took Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris), which is Pondweed” and walk on by. I’ll us out to beautiful Gooseberry Cove, especially common on meadows remember this moment, I thought, where there was no longer a need for where sheep and cattle graze, its and chalk it up as one giant leap for sweaters, caps and jackets. What a lavender flowers protruding from a Ed. joy to get out of the car and feel the short spike, like a spruce cone, at the sun on our faces again. A warm On the long cobble beach bar of top of the stalk; Pink Crowberry westerly breeze drove fair-sized the barachois, we found Water-Milfoil (Empetrum eamesii), not nearly as waves up onto a quarter-mile of (Myriophyllum sp.); Marsh Skullcap common as Black Crowberry sandy beach. We tasted the hot (Scutellaria galericulata), with its (Empetrum nigrum); and Pulvinate munchie Sea Rocket (Cakile square stems, diagnostic of the mint Pussytoes (Antennaria rosea subsp. edentula), which can be added to family; Queen of the Meadow pulvinata), with wooly stems and salads, and admired the False Arnica (Filipendula ulmaria); Beach Pea and terminal clusters of fuzzy white flower (Senecio pseudoarnica – see p.56) Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) heads resembling cats’ paws, thus with its large yellow flowers that (“What’s that doing out here on a the common name. make the plant look exotic, growing cobble beach?” John asked). We At Bird Rock, a short walk from here in the salty sand of a Newfound- saw Meadowrue (Thalictrum the interpretation centre while land beach. Also growing here were pubescens) (“Why not?” I heard John sidestepping sheep patties, the fog spreading clumps of Oyster Leaf mutter); Lady’s Thumb (Persicaria was still thick, but we could see the (Mertensia maritima), also called Sea maculosa), with the characteristic top section of the rock, covered with Lungwort, with its leaves whitened by dark green splotch in the centre of Gannets, including young ones. wax exuded by the leaf; Seabeach the leaf that looks like a thumb print; Oddly, adults were still billing, which I Sandwort (Honckenya peploides); Strand Wheat (Leymus mollis); Sea associate with courting, but with Lady’s Thumb (Persicaria spp.); Rocket (Cakile edentula), with a babies to look after, surely courting Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum vase-like constriction in fruit where it was not on their minds? dulcamara) and “the Evil Sow Thistle” breaks off; the delicate green Map (Sonchus asper), as John called it. Lichen (Rhizocarpon geographicum) Gooseberry Cove What we did not find, however, were all over the beach rocks, and Dock Tony Power, the Cape St. Mary’s Gooseberries; I have yet to find (Rumex spp.). reserve manager, told us that the Gooseberries growing wild A tiny Least Sandpiper flitted wind was veering westward and so in anywhere, despite the many places about on a small, sandy island close about an hour the fog should clear. with Gooseberry in their name. to the shore in the lagoon, and a Sure enough, a bit longer than an flock of terns were clearly annoyed hour later, at 2:30 p.m., as we were Point Verde and flew threateningly overhead. leaving Cape St. Mary’s, the fog Further north, at the brackish The most stunning beauty on the lifted, making the drive north along lagoon called Barachois Pond barachois, however, was Robert’s the Cape Shore towards Placentia (pronounced bar-ah-shwa, or, Geranium or Herb Robert (Geranium delightful. We drove slowly through sometimes, bar-ah-shway or bar-ah- robertianum) {cover picture} growing the beautiful community of St. Brides, sway) at Point Verde, I was happy to among an expanse of stranded with gently sloping sheep meadows recognize the pale, greenish-brown, beach rocks covered with map on the right and fishing boats in the elongated leaves of Pondweed lichen, near the foundations of harbour, and, further on, through (Potamogeton sp.), which we had houses that were there long ago, but Cuslett, home of the well-known seen earlier that morning at the still subtly evident. Newfoundland singer and songwriter magical culvert stop across from Eddie Coffey, and then on through Collins Pond. Typically, I am lucky to On the evening drive home to St. Angels Cove and Patrick’s Cove. get a glimmer of recognition on my John’s, I thought of how deprived one The high ground between own after about a dozen times a is to live on the Avalon Peninsula and

- 54 - Sarracenia Vol. 17 #4 not to know such stunningly beautiful Rocket and Pondweed as the sun around all day again tomorrow, are places as Barachois Pond, right on went down on afternoons such as you?" Mary asked. "You’re not a our doorstep. I’ve been to Placentia this. young man anymore, you know." dozens of times to visit relatives and “How was your day?” Mary "No, my dear, I do feel it in the have taken Sunday drives to Cape shouted from the kitchen as I came in bones, but do you remember old Mr. St. Mary’s. But I had never gone out the front door, dropping my backpack Frank Leonard in the white punt to Point Verde and never heard of on the porch floor. going out through the arm? Well, the this beautiful lagoon, never walked faithful lean steadily into the wind, this gorgeous old barachois where "Just as spectacular as and at 8:30 a.m. I’m going to meet you can look across Placentia yesterday," I said. "We dawdled by a the wildflower crowd at the Klondyke Harbour at Castle Hill and recall the lovely pond in the morning, had lunch Hotel in Bay Roberts. John says that hostilities between the French and on the barrens at Cape St. Mary"s in we’ve got a pine plantation to visit on the English and the early livyers thick fog, slapped on sunscreen and the Tilton Barrens. I knew about a eking out a living from the land and stripped down to our T-shirts on a big chocolate factory and a rubber boot sea. I imagined them on the beach, sandy beach at Gooseberry Cove factory out around there, but a pine bending over to pick up yaffles of salt and ended up on a barachois plantation? Go figure! I don’t think I’ll cod after a day of good drying, with covered with map lichen outside a have any trouble sleeping tonight." strong sun and a good breeze, like lagoon at Point Verde, across today. Despite their continual hard Placentia Harbour. Pure bliss! I'm work and poverty, would it be too absolutely exhausted. I hope we Note: I am grateful to John Maunder pastoral, too idyllic, I wondered to have nothing on for tonight." for his kindness in reviewing an earlier draft of this article and making imagine that some of them noticed "Sweet Mother of God, you’re not helpful suggestions. All errors and the beauty of Herb Robert, Sea going to beat yourself out traipsing omissions are mine. E.H.

References: Maunder, John. A Digital Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador Vascular Plants, at http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/flora.htm (most of the illustrations.) Shoemperlen, Diane. 1998. Forms of Devotion. Toronto: Harper Collins. Titford, Bill and June. 1995. A Travelers’ Guide to Wild Flowers of Newfoundland. St. John’s: Flora Frames. Voitk, Andrus, and Maria. 2006. Orchids on the Rock: The Wild Orchids of Newfoundland. Rocky Harbour, NL: Gros Morne Co-operating Association. Woolf, Virginia. 1977. To the Lighthouse. London: Grafton Books. 2009 Photo-competition: Second Place winners.

Plant portraits, other. Mary Bridson Artistic Abstract. Heather Saunders Crackerberries (Cornus canadensis) Pitcherplant ()

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Plant-animal interactions: Heather Saunders,

Lacewing on Round-leaved Sundew

(Drosera rotundifolia).

Closeups: Judith Blakeley,

Female flower of Common Larch (Larix laricina).

Plant portraits, flowers: Karen Herzberg,

False Arnica

(Senecio pseudoarnica).

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Index of Scientific Names for Volume 17 Abies Bistorta Dianthus Goodyera balsamea...... 8, 40 vivipara...... 51 armeria...... 5 oblongifolia....15, 18, 19, Acer Botrychium Diapensia 20, 21, 22 rubrum...... 48 lunaria...... 52 lapponica...... 16, 35, 53 repens...... 20 sp...... 8 Braya Digitalis tesselata...... 20, 22 Achillea fernaldii...... 6 purpurea...... 8 Hieracium millefolium...... 8, 37 longii...... 6 spp...... 18 aurantiacum...... 8 Aconitum Cakile Diphasiastrum flagellare...... 8 spp...... 6 edentula...... 54 digitatum...... 36 lachenalii...... 8 Acorus Calla sitchense...... 36 pilosella...... 8 americanus...... 5 palustris...... 2 tristachyum...... 36 Honckenya Adiantum Calluna Dipsacus peploides...... 54 aleuticum...... 4 vulgaris...... 37 fullonum...... 8 Huperzia Alisma Calopogon Drosera appalachiana...... 36 triviale...... 31 tuberosus...... 39 rotundifolia...... 4, 56 selago...... 36 Alnus Caltha Dryas Hypericum viridis...... 8 palustris...... 48 drummondii...... 6 perforatum...... 8 Amelanchier Cardamine integrifolia...... 4, 49 Impatiens laevis...... 8 pensylvanica...... 31 Dryopteris capensis...... 54 Anaphalis pratense...... 31 sp...... 53 glandulosum...... 8 margaritacea...... 8 Carex Empetrum Iris Anemone paleacea...... 39 eamesii...... 36, 54 setosa...... 51 parviflora...... 49 scirpoidea...... 53 nigrum...... 36, 43, 54 versicolor...... 8, 51 Angelica Centaurea Epigea Juncus atropurpurea...... 38 nigra...... 8 repens...... 49 bufonius...... 53 sylvestris...... 38 Cerastium Epilobium militaris...... 37 Antennaria fontanum...... 8, 53 montanum...... 8 trifidus...... 36 rosea...... 54 Chaenorrhinum Equisetum Juniperus Antirrhinum minus...... 15, 17 fluviatile...... 37 communis...... 36 spp...... 18 Chamerion Eriocaulon Kalmia Aralia angustifolium....8, 31, 37 aquaticum...... 37 angustifolia...... 37 hispida...... 8 Chenopodium Eriophorum polifolia...... 37 nudicaulis...... 49 album...... 39 virginicum...... 39 Larix Arceuthobium Circium Euphorbia laricina...... 40, 56 pusillum...... 4, 29, 40, 41 arvense...... 6 cyparissias...... 6 Lathyrus Arctostaphulos Clintonia Euphrasia japonicus...... 54 uva-ursi...... 49 borealis...... 9, 36, 49 nemorosa...... 51 palustris...... 54 Arctous Coptis Euthalmia Lemna alpina...... 36, 43, 49 groenlandica...... 49 graminifolia...... 8 turionifera...... 5 rubra...... 49 trifolia...... 49 Euthamia Leontodon Arethusa Corallorhiza graminifolia...... 44 autumnalis...... 8 bulbosa...... 39 maculata...... 33, 34, 35 Filipendula Lesquerella Argentina trifida...... 33, 34, 35 ulmaria...... 54 arctica...... 4 anserina...... 38 Cornus Fraxinus Leucanthemum Athyrium alternifolia...... 5 nigra...... 5 vulgare...... 8 filix-femina...... 52, 53 canadensis...... 9, 36, 55 Gaylusaccia Leymus Bartonia Crepis dumosa...... 39 mollis...... 54 virginica...... 5 nana...... 5 Geranium Ligusticum Bartsia Cypripedium pratense...... 6 scothicum...... 39 alpina...... 5 acaule...... 32, 33, 34, 35 robertianum...... 54 Linaria Betula parviflorum...... 4 Glyceria repens...... 8, 37 michauxii...... 37, 53 reginae...... 12 sp...... 50 spp...... 18 papyrifera...... 8 Daucus Gnaphalium vulgaris...... 8, 37 pumila...... 53 carota...... 6 sylvaticum...... 8 x sepium...... 8

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Lobelia cinnamomea...... 37, 53 Rhizocarpon sp...... 37 dortmanna...... 37 Persicaria geographicum...... 54 Sorbus Loiseleuria maculosa...... 54 Rhododendron decora...... 8 procumbens...16, 36, 49 Phalaris canadense...... 37, 49 Spergularia Loiseluria arundinacea...... 8 lapponicum...... 49 canadensis...... 39 procumbens...... 16 Phegopteris Rhynchospora Spiraea Luzula connectilis...... 53 alba...... 39 alba...... 8 multiflora...... 53 Photinia Rosa Spiranthes Lychnis prunifolia...... 37 rugosa...... 6 romanzoffiana...... 33, 34 alpina...... 4 Phyllodoce Rubus Stellaria Lycopodium caerulea...... 49 arcticus...... 25 graminea...... 8 annotinum...... 36, 42 Picea chamaemorus...... 25 Streptopus clavatum...... 36 mariana...... 37, 40 idaeus...... 8 amplexifolius...... 49 Lythrum Pinus sp...... 37 Taraxacum salicaria...... 6 resinosa...... 5 Rumex officinale...... 8 Maianthemum Plantago acetosella...... 8 Thalictrum canadense.....16, 36, 49 major...... 8 Salix pubescens.....38, 50, 54 stellatum...... 49 maritima...... 25, 39 jejuna...... 6 Trichophorum trifolium...... 49 Platanthera uva-ursi...... 53 cespitosum...... 53 Matricaria aquilonis..33, 34, 39, 42, vestita...... 4 Trientalis discoidea...... 8 53 Sanguisorba borealis...... 49 Medicago blephariglottis...... 39 canadensis...... 38 Trifolium lupulina...... 51 dilatata...... 33 Sarracenia arvense...... 31 Melilotus macrophylla...... 39 purpurea...... 4, 36, 55 aureum...... 8 albus...... 6 psychodes...... 33, 34 Saxifraga pratense...... 8 Mertensia psycodes...... 53 azoides...... 49 Tussilago maritima...... 54 Potamogeton oppositifolia...... 49 farfara...... 6 Minuartia epihydrus...... 50 Schizaea Typha marcescens...... 4 sp...... 54 pusilla...... 5 latifolia...... 6 Mitchella spp...... 3 Scrophularia Utricularia repens...... 5 Potentilla nodosa...1, 2, 10, 11, 12 cornuta...... 39 Moehringia anserina...... 38 Scutellaria spp...... 3 lateriflora...... 53 norvegica...... 54 galericulata...... 54 Vaccinium Myrica simplex...... 31 Sedum angustifolium...... 8 gale...... 36 tridentata...... 36 acre...... 6 boreale...... 36 Myriophyllum usticapensis...... 5 Senecio oxycoccus...... 4, 25 sp...... 54 Primula jacobaea...... 6, 8 uliginosum...... 36 Nasturtium laurentiana...... 49 pseudoarnica...... 54, 56 vitis-idaea...... 2, 25 microphyllum...... 31 mistassinica...... 49 viscosus...... 8 Veronica officinale...... 31 Prunella Sibbaldiopsis officinalis...... 8 Nuphar vulgaris...... 54 tridentata...... 36 spp...... 18 variegata...... 50 Prunus Silene Viburnum Nymphaea pensylvanica...... 8 acaulis...... 52 edule...... 24, 25 odorata...... 50 Pseudorchis Sisyrinchium nudum...... 8 Nymphoides albida...... 5 montanum...... 39 opulus...... 24 cordata...... 38, 50 Ranunculus Solanum Viola Oenothera flammula...... 31 dulcamara...... 54 cucullata...... 54 biennis...... 8 repens...... 6, 8 Solidago macloskeyi...... 16 sp...... 37 Rhamnus rugosa...... 8 Zostera Onoclea alnifolia...... 49 Sonchus marina...... 39 sensibilis...... 53 Rhinanthus asper...... 54 Osmunda minor...... 53 Sorbaronia

(Scientific names without authorities follow: “Annotated Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Newfoundland and Labrador” by Susan J. Meades, Stuart G. Hay, and Luc Brouillet, 2000. http://www.digitalnaturalhistory.com/meades.htm)

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