Rainbow Cloud

Rainbow Cloud
also known as fire rainbows, occur when sunlight diffracts off water droplets in the atmosphere.

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Mushroom & Moss Microcosm

Tiny brown mushrooms and  I'm guessing, Haircap Moss Spore Capsules (Polytrichum).

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Remembering Summer Flowers

 Flamingo Flowers

Anthurium
Flamingo Plant with a shiny red & yellow flower in the green house at Gardener's Supply.
 The Anthurium is also known as Painted Tongue, Flamingo Flower (Flamingo Lily) or Tail Flower. The flowers are contained in dense spirals on the spadix. The spadix is often elongated into a spike shape. Anthuriums are herbaceous epiphytes native to tropical America. Anthurium is a genus of more than 800 species found in the New World tropics from Mexico to northern Argentina and Uruguay.

Water Lily A reminder of summer. 

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Gorgeous Day

View At Indian Brook Reservoir State Park. 

Here is one of my favorite places in nature.

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Exotic Wild Flowers

 Arrowhead Plant

Flowering
Sagittaria latifolia
Common arrowhead, is a perennial aquatic plant in the Alismataceae (water plantain) family. The common names of duck potato and wapato for this plant refers to the rounded starchy golf ball-sized tubers that form at the ends of underground plant runners (rhizomes). Flowers bloom from July to September. Found in shallow water in lakes, ponds, tidal marshes, rivers, streams, and wetland margins. The tubers of the arrowheads are edible when roasted or boiled. They were important food sources of indigenous peoples and in some areas are still valued as a great food source. Tubers are typically roasted. Though the skin is edible arrowhead tubers are more palatable when peeled. The best time for collecting tubers is in fall or early spring. Tubers are high in starch and phosphorous.

 Bittersweet Nightshade
Such cool looking flowers.
This plant is toxic to people, pets, and livestock.

Bottleneck Gentian 

The corolla remains closed at the top even when the flower is ready to receive pollinating insects. Bumblebees are the primary pollinators of the flowers, as they are one of the few insects that can force their way past the closed corolla. Some gentians are used in herbal medicine as an anti-inflammatory, to lower fevers, and as a liver tonic. It is also used as a gastric stimulant to treat a loss of appetite, digestive problems, flatulence, and insufficient production of gastric juices and saliva.

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My blog is meant to inform and I strive to be totally accurate. It is solely up to the reader to ensure proper plant identification. Some wild plants are poisonous or can have serious adverse health effects.

Baneberry

I found this in the woods, in Essex Jct. Vermont, a few weeks ago, and wondered what it is. Turns out that it's Baneberry, after the berries fall off. Actaea pachypoda Ell., doll's-eyes, white baneberry. The fruits of both red or white baneberry are poisonous. Native Americans used the roots in herbal medicine and as a ritual plant.

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Happy National Cat Day

 Happy National Cat Day

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