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Up North

June 10, 2025

My brother Dan and his wife dropped by for a visit recently. We went up to the hunting shack so I could visit my flowers, and a doe and fawn met us on the lane going to the shack. That’s the same thing that happened two years ago. (The Fawn).

The trip was not a waste, because the orchids were in bloom (fading away) but still blooming. We didn’t see any orchids that had been nipped off by deer.  Maybe it’s bad for hunting.

The photos below show some of the plants I saw there. Click on any photo to get a straight shot of the picture. After clicking on the photo, click again on the straight shot to see a larger version.

Bunchberry (Cornus-canadensis)
Cinnamon fern (Osmundastrum cinnamomeum)
Nice plant community: clintonia, fern, sedge, and wild lily of the valley
Wild lily of the valley seeds
Yellow bead lily or clintonia (Clintonia borealis) blossoming
Yellow bead lily (Clintonia borealis) seeds
Pink ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae)
Wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulia)
Nodding trillium (Trillium cernuum) and wild lily of the valley (Maianthemum canadense)
Pink ladyslipper (Cypripedium reginae) in seed
Columbine (Aguilegia canadensis)
Blue-eyed grass or stout grass (Sisyrinchium campestre)

The Home page image for this blog post shows blue-eyed grass or stout grass (Sisyrinchium campestre) in flower.

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