Flowers in bloom on: Sept. 12, 2019 [map on reverse; asterisks indicate best guess, the plant is under study; plant names 95% from Peterson]

1 Nodding Bur-marigolds Bidens cernua 15 Silver-rod Solidago bicolor 2 Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria 16 Great Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica 3 Swamp Smartweed Persicaria coccinea 17 Goldenrod Solidago spp. 4 Pickerelweed Pontederia cordata 18 White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricatus 5 Straw-colored Flatsedge Cyperus strigosus 19 Panicled Hawkweed Hieracium paniculatum 6 Mild Water-pepper Persicaria hydropiperoides 20 Sneezeweed Helenium autumnale 7 *Swamp Beggar-ticks Bidens connata 21 Tuberous Water-lily Nymphaea tuberosa 8 Spotted St. Johnswort Hypericum punctatum 22 Indian-pipe Monotropa uniflora 9 Closed Gentian Gentiana andrewsii 23 Spotted Touch-me-not Impatiens capensis 10 New York Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis 24 Sweet Goldenrod Solidago odora 11 Cardinal-flower Lobelia cardinalis 25 Starry Campion Silene stellata 12 Red Turtlehead Chelone obliqua 26 White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima 13 False Dragonhead Physostegia virginiana 27 *Late Purple Aster Symphyotrichum patens 14 Broad-leaved Arrowhead Sagittaria latifolia 28 Turtlehead Chelone glabra [barely] 29 *Aster spp.

Highlights of The Woods

Arrow-leaved Tearthumb Persicaria sagittata Pale (Nodding) Smartweed Persicaria lapathifolia Asiatic Dayflower Commelina communis Pale Touch-me-not Impatiens pallida [barely] Dodder Cuscuta gronovii Pokeweed Phytolacca americana [barely] *Goldenrod Solidago spp. [elm-branched] Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria Great Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica *Schreber’s Aster Eurybia schreberi Halberd-leaved Tearthumb Persicaria arifolia Spotted Joe-Pye-weed Eutrochium maculatum Herb-Robert Geranium robertianum Spotted Touch-me-not Impatiens capensis Hog-peanut Amphicarpaea bracteata Turtlehead Chelone glabra Japanese Stiltgrass Microstegium vimineum Virginia Knotweed Persicaria virginiana Lady’s-thumb Persicaria maculosa White Cutgrass Leersia virginica Mild Water-pepper Persicaria hydropiperoides White Snakeroot Ageratina altissima Nodding Bur-marigolds Bidens cernua White Wood Aster Eurybia divaricata Northern Willow-herb Epilobium glandulosum Yellow Wood-sorrel Oxalis stricta [barely]

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.