Explore Nature in
the Adirondack Mountains:
Volunteer Training: Late Summer Wildflowers
Sunday, 31 August 2014
9:00 AM - Noon
Adirondack Wildflowers: Dewdrop on the Heron Marsh Trail, Touch-me-Not on the Black Pond Trail, and Indian Pipe on the Woods & Waters Trail
Come to the VIC from 9:00 AM to noon to learn what's blooming around the VIC in the waning weeks of August. We'll look at Goldenrod, Asters, and other flowers in the composite family. Wildflowers blooming along the VIC trails in late summer include:
| Spotted Touch-Me-Not (Impatiens capensis) | Whorled Wood Aster (Oclemena acuminata) |
| Dewdrop (Dalibarda repens) | Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota) |
| Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) | Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium maculatum) |
| Flat-topped White Aster ( Doellingeria umbellata) | Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea) |
| Goldenrod (Solidago) | Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) |
Sources of Information on Adirondack Wildflowers
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Native Plant Database.
- United States Department of Agriculture. Plants Database.
- University of Michigan. Native American Ethnobotany. A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.
- NatureServe Explorer. Online Encyclopedia of Life.
- University of Wisconsin. Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium.
- Flora of North America. Database.
- Connecticut Wildflowers. Wildflower Guide.
- Minnesota Wildflowers. Database.
- ENature. Wildflower Field Guide.
- Doug Ladd. North Woods Wildflowers (Falcon Publishing, 2001).
- Lawrence Newcomb. Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Little Brown and Company, 1977).
- Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny. A Field Guide to Wildflowers. Northeastern and North-central North America (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968).
- National Audubon Society. Field Guide to Wildflowers. Eastern Region. (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001).
- William K. Chapman, et al. Wildflowers of New York in Color (Syracuse University Press, 1998).
- Anne McGrath. Wildflowers of the Adirondacks (EarthWords, 1981, 2000).
- Meiyin Wu and Dennis Kalma. Wetland Plants of the Adirondacks. Herbaceous Plants and Aquatic Plants (Trafford Publishing, 2010).
- Ruth Schottman. Trailside Notes: A Naturalist's Companion to Adirondack Plants (Adirondack Mountain Club, 1998).
- William K. Chapman. Orchids of the Northeast. A Field Guide (Syracuse University Press, 1997).