Plant Class with Barb

Tuesday night we hosted our second class on site-

 a plant identification class with Barb, plant ecologist.  

We invited our new neighbors, the Tollefsons, 

and Maggie, an aspiring farmer from Minneapolis.

 Barb is a plant ecologist who specializes in native plant communities in our area.

She walked us through the orchard, berry patch, 

and woods around the house

identifying priority plants we should know.

Super knowledgeable.

She wrote labels on pink marking tape and tied them to various plants and trees for us to remind us.

 

Some were helpful, edible, or medicinal plants.

Others were interesting.

 Some were invasive or things which will prove hard to remove if we don't act soon.

She also created a database for us of what she saw so we can do further research specific to our land.

Once we've become familiar with these plants and have taken the action steps she recommends, we'll have another class.

At the bottom of this blog are the plants she identified in 90 minutes on our property.

 

 Kiernan with his notebook

 Kiernan's two favorite sketches

Fiona with her blood root

The red stains are the juice from the blood root stem.

Thanks to Barb for the great learning and to

Maggie and the Tollefsons for coming and making it fun!

basswood
beggarticks
bitternut hickory
black ash
black cherry
black nightshade
blackberry, species not certain
bloodroot
blue cohosh
buckthorn
burdock
butternut
Canada goldenrod
Canada mayflower
carrion flower
chokecherry
common milkweed
common ragweed
daisy fleabane
dandelion
dog violet
early meadow-rue
eastern star sedge
enchanter's nightshade
false Solomon's seal
foxtail grass
giant ragweed
green ash
heart-leaved aster
hog peanut
hooked crowfoot
ironwood
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Kentucky bluegrass
kidney-leaved buttercup
lady fern
lake sedge
lamb's quarters
lesser duckweed
maple-leaved goosefoot
mullein
musclewood, blue beech
nannyberry
nodding stickseed
nodding trillium
northern blue flag
pagoda dogwood
Pennsylvania sedge
pennycress
peppergrass
prickly ash
prickly gooseberry
quackgrass
quaking aspen
red raspberry
red-berried elder
reed canary grass
sensitive fern
smartweed, species not certain
smooth brome
spikenard
spotted touch-me-not
sweet cicely
sweet-scented bedstraw
tartarian honeysuckle
vetch or vetchling, uncertain
virginia creeper, woodbine
white avens
white campion
white clover
wild geranium
wild grape
wild leek
wild yam
wood anemone
woodnettle
woolgrass
yellow violet
zigzag goldenrod