High summer means the Queen Anne's Lace and chicory on the road-sides and bike-path-sides. Sickle-leaved asters on the moor roads. Toothed White-topped asters on the sides of the moor roads and wood nymphs dashing about.
On Friday, July 23, a group of us took a walk with Kelly Omand, botanist of the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, starting from the Barn at Sanford Farm, through the old Weaver property. The farm had a whaling TryWorks in the yard---filled with cement. We saw wood lilies, early pink and white Joe Pye weed (eutrochium), pearly everlasting, hollies and black cherries (along with the usuals)
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Pearly Everlasting,
anaphalis margaritacea |
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Painted Lady Butterfly,
Vanessa cardui
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| Native mint |
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Joe Pye weed,
eutrochium dubium |
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| Wood Lily, Lilium Philadelphicum |
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Coastal Joe-Pye Weed, white variant
eutrochium dubium |
OnSaturday, July 24, Josh and I kayaked Polpis Harbor out to the Meadows and Island Creek. I saw my first whimbrels of the year.
On Sunday, July 25, I hiked out to Pout Ponds in the break in between (and during) the rain. The wild indigo is now going to seed. I stopped in at Jewel Pond on the way home, and saw the pickerel weed and floating hearts.
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Pickerelweed,
pontederia cordata |
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Little floating heart,
nymphoides cordata |
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| Pipewort, eriocaulon aquaticum |
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| Eastern wild indigo,Baptisia Tinctoria |
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| Jewel Pond |
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| Sickle-leaved aster with blueberry |
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Toothed, white-topped aster,
sericocarpus asteroides
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