What: Inspired by the overwhelming abundance of life, I decided to spend some time in the lawn adjacent to my yard and catalog the flowers. I tallied
Creeping Buttercup
Dandelion
English plantain
Common plantain
White clover
Black medic
Mouse-ear chickweed
Ground ivy (aka robin run around, creeping charlie, or gill over the ground)
wood sorrel
Garlic mustard
Dwarf cinquefoil
Celandine poppy (like all members of the poppy family – including bloodroot – celandine has colorful sap, in this case yellow).
Ecological notes: For other herbaceous plants that didn’t have flowers yet, I tallied evening primrose, violet, Queen Anne’s lace, shepherds sorrel, red clover, making it a total of ### species.
Where:
Other notes: I was distracted by the starlings begging for food.
