The last day of Landscape Natural History was today! Like I wrote before, it is bittersweet. We turned in our field journals and went to Niquette Bay State Park for our field final quiz. In the quiz, we had to identify trees (including ash, white pine, hemlock, sugar maple, red maple, hophornbeam, etc.), identify and sketch wildflowers (bloodroot, trout lilies, hepatica, spring beauties, dutchman's breeches), and then compare the area to to the natural communities that we observed earlier in the semester at Sunny Hollow and Lone Rock Point.
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| Trout lily |
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| Sugar maple leaves unfurling |
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| Wild ginger, which has a true ginger scent. |
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| Dutchman's breeches |
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| Sharp-lobed hepatica. Some have a blue/purple tinge. |
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| Stinking Benjamin |
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| American beech buds |
Beautiful pictures Bonnie!
ReplyDeleteNiquette Bay is a wonderful place to do fieldwork! It's so pretty up there!