Sunday, November 5, 2017

Restoring Bottomland Prairie: Winter Annuals Volunteer

Wedge-leaf Draba
Draba cunefolia
Mustard Family
Annual or winter annual
Native volunteer

These four species of winter annuals--two native, two introduced--blossomed in April 2017 on the riparian buffer bordering the Creek Field.  All four were volunteers!







Corn Gromwell
Buglossoides arvensis (Lithospermum arvense)
Borage Family (Boraginaceae)
Winter Annual
Introduced from Eurasia, Volunteer








Slender Fumewort
Corydalis micrantha
Fumewort Family
Winter annual, native volunteer

I found a fly busily drinking nectar from Treacle Mustard (the fly is visible in the photo below).   The fly doesn't seem to object to the mustard's non-native status!  


Treacle Mustard
Erysimum repandum
Winter Annual
Mustard Family (Brassicaceae)
Introduced from Eurasia, Volunteer

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