Josh and I hiked Norwood Farm on Saturday, July 31, in order to inhale the scent of the sweet pepper, clethra alnifolia, now in full bloom. The richness of the scent and the milky blooms contrasted with the now brown grasses. Few wildflowers were blooming except for the St. Andrew's Cross (hypericum stragulum) as a yellow carpet in spots. The tupelo have begun to turn that rich cordovan, mulberry, deep red that signals the end of summer. A couple of very early goldenrod had opened on the moor roads.
The ponds are full of water-lilies and swamp willow-herb (decodon verticillatus) , with a few pickerel weeds at the edges. They are very low. I didn't even file an ebird because the birds were the usual towhees, robins, jays and crows. I did hear a downy woodpecker.
Teucrium canadense
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