Early July

We've taken some more great hikes during this time of maximum viburnum bloom.   Josh and I did the Folger's Hill Hike on June 30,  which has some great vistas of Polpis, Sesachacha and Gibbs Ponds.   The St.Johnswort  (Hypericum perforatum) are starting to bloom along the bike path,  as the ox-eyed daisies (Chrystanemum leucanthemum)

Swamp Candles:  Lysimachus terristris

Pout Pond, June 23

Pasture Thistles June 23 

Pasture rose, Rosa virginica

Field of Ox Eye Daisies near Altar Rock

Sandplain Blue eyed Grass

Rockrose, Helianthemum majus

wane.  The common mullein (Verbascum thapsus) stands are up

I fleetingly saw a yellow swallowtail butterfly in Norwood Farm.  The pond there is choked with lilypads.   The pink milk wort (polygala polygama),  remnants of sandplain blue-eyed grass and toadflax are also out in Norwood Farm.  Almanac Pond is still flowing over the road into the Stump Pond swamp.

The rockrose  (Helianthemum majus) are out on the moors,  in the roads and on the roadsides.  Yarrow (Achillia millefolia) is on the edges of the road, along with hawkweed.  .  I found  the hawkweed hieracium venosum,  with its purple veins in basal leaves on a hike in Serengeti.  
I saw the first swamp candles (lysimachia terrestris).  The rosa virginiana,  the low wild rose is dotting the moors. 

Mullein, verbascum thapsus