Saturday, June 15, 2019

EcoEcho Week 3, part 2: What kind of Honeysuckle? Forb Mysteries: It's a Dogwood SHRUB!

So luckily it's definitely NOT buckthorn (glossy) - it has the same leaf vein as buckthorn but it's not glossy and most importantly - the stems are NOT alternate (as with glossy buckthorn). Common buckthorn has serrated leaves. https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/shrub/red-osier-dogwood I always thought Dogwood was a TREE - not a shrub. Oops - I was thinking of Pagoda Dogwood - not the NATIVE dogwood that's a SHRUB! The stem turns more read as the season progresses. Now I remember seeing red stems and wondering what they were....

  In fact, at least one reference treats C. sericea as a variety of C. alba, and the names are used so interchangeably in the horticultural trade that it is uncertain whether the bright yellow-twigged form call "Flaviramea" is of North American or European origin, though we have on occasion encountered more yellow-twigged forms that appear to be wild.


This might also be an invasive - but more on this later. I think the above is the tall yellow buttercup and the below is the Cinquefoil.

will see what these are....

So Day Two - my irrigation well water had "recharged" to just a few feet below ground level - after I had emptied out 350 mugs - about 12 ounce mug amounts - down to over 18 feet or so. It's a 20 foot hole but there's several feet of pea gravel at the bottom.

OK enuf photos for part 2. Now onto part 3.

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