Flowers in bloom on: Aug. 29, 2019 [map on reverse; asterisks indicate best guess, the plant is under study; plant names 95% from Peterson]

1 Water-plantatin Alisma triviale 16 Great Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica 2 Mild Water-pepper Persicaria hydropiperoides 17 *White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricatus 3 Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria 18 Panicled Hawkweed Hieracium paniculatum 4 Swamp Smartweed Persicaria coccinea 19 Spikenard Trifolium repens 5 Swamp Beggar-ticks Bidens connata 20 Sneezeweed Helenium autumnale 6 Straw-colored Flatsedge Cyperus strigosus 21 Indian-pipe Monotropa uniflora 7 Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata 22 *Sweet Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium purpureum 8 Spotted St. Johnswort Hypericum punctatum 23 Swamp Rose-mallow Hibiscus moscheutos 9 Cardinal-flower Lobelia cardinalis 24 Tuberous Water-lily Nymphaea tuberosa 10 Spotted Touch-me-not Impatiens capensis 25 Sweet Goldenrod Solidago odora 11 New York Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis 26 Sweet (Coastal) Pepperbush Clethra alnifolia 12 Downy Rattlesnake-plaintain Goodyera pubescens 27 Goldenrod Solidago spp. 13 Closed Gentian Gentiana andrewsii 28 Black-eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta 14 Red Turtlehead Chelone obliqua 29 *Spotted Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium maculatum 15 Broad-leaved Arrowhead Sagittaria latifolia

Highlights of The Woods

Annual Fleabane Erigeron annuus Mild Water-pepper Persicaria hydropiperoides Asiatic Dayflower Commelina communis Northern Willow-herb Epilobium glandulosum Clearweed Pilea pumila Pale Touch-me-not Impatiens pallida [barely] Common Skullcap Scutellaria epilobiifolia Panicled Hawkweed Hieracium paniculatum Ditch Stonecrop Penthorum sedoides Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria Dodder Cuscuta gronovii Schreber’s Aster Eurybia schreberi Figwort Scrophularia lanceolata Spotted Touch-me-not Impatiens capensis Grasses, unidentified •Sweet Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium purpureum. Great Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica Turtlehead Chelone glabra Halberd-leaved Tearthumb Persicaria arifolia Virginia Knotweed Persicaria virginiana Hog Peanut Amphicarpaea bracteata White Cutgrass Leersia virginica Indian-tobacco Lobelia inflata White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima Lady’s-thumb Persicaria maculosa White Wood Aster Eurybia Leafy-bracted Beggar-tick Bidens tripartita Yellow Wood-sorrel Oxalis stricta Lowrie’s Aster Symphyotrichum lowrieanum

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.