NATURE JOURNAL Flowers, Flowers! Second Looks & Closer Looks, Mullein, Goldenrod, Catchfly, Pokeweed, NY Ironweed, & More

 

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NATURE JOURNAL Oddball Fern Leaf Rollers, Indian Cucumber Root Fruit, Deer Buffet along the Lane

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NATURE JOURNAL Mapping the Unknown: Ferns & Moss, Oh, no! Odonata! Rock Green Shield Lichen, Swamp Red Maple

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NATURE JOURNAL Field Trip! A 2.5 Mile Hike Along the TenMile River, Cheshire, CT

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NATURE JOURNAL Searching for the Unseen, Unnoticed, and Overlooked!

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NATURE JOURNAL Don't Tangle with TearThumb! Another Odonato: Damselfly! Tiny Fairy Ferns

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#InternationalNatureJournalingWeek I've been Slimed! The Spiderlings are Here! Zoom In on Moss Leaves,Orange Mystery

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NATURE JOURNAL Inviting Nature into My Yard, Banana Mash for Butterflies, Propagating Horsetails, Royal Fern Fertile Frond, Yellow Garden Spider

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NATURE JOURNAL Garter Snake Molt, Blooming Indian Cucumber Root, Leaves in a Whorl, more....

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NATURE JOURNAL A Bumblebee & Her Basket, Spring Peeper, Ferns: Christmas, Lady, & New York

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NATURE JOURNAL Ferns, Ferns, Ferns, Sphagnum Moss, Jack-in-the-Pulpits, UGP

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NATURE JOURNAL Surprise, Surprise! I was walking all about the woods looking for this... Interrupted Ferns

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NATURE JOURNAL Fern Investigations, Cloud Report, Tiny Fairy Flower

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NATURE JOURNAL I'm Kneehigh in Fern Fiddleheads, A Sun Snow Shower, Feathering the Edge of the Ecotone

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NATURE JOURNAL Sparkles Sunshine Snake Shavings & Silly Tree

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#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #38 Archie, The Royal Purple Fiddlehead

  

I found two fern plants, side by side, with a royal purple hue. Are they Royal Ferns, Osmunda regalis? Don't know yet, but still I named them Big Archie and Little Archie.

Aren't these fun!

  

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#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #36 Yes, ferns do have an awkward "teenager" stage...

The woods are brimming with young ferns! I can find both the baby "fiddleheads" and the "awkward teenagers". The latter is when the frond is almost finished with its unfurling but the leaflets are still not fully open. The overall effect is a straggly individual whose characteristics don't reflect what its mature beauty will soon be. 

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#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #20 Fuzzy Fiddleheads!

Can't wait to see which fern these will be! Fun, very large, fiddleheads with a camel-colored fuzzy coat.

  

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#MyCanterburyCoddiwomples #The100DayProject Day #15 Fiddleheads

Can't wait to see what kind of ferns these will be! 

So far I have found a wood fern, perhaps Dryopteris marginalis, though there may be two different Dryopteris near by, Sensitive Fern, Onoclea sensibilis, and the Christmas Fern, Polystichum acrostichoides.

Dryopteris marginalis

Onoclea sensibilis

Polystichum acrostichoides

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