The Capital District Friday Field Group visited the TNC Hannacroix Ravine Preserve in Clarksville last Friday May 15, 2009. Bob Ingalls sent along this list of plants they saw in bloom.
Aquilegia canadensis – Columbine
Barbarea vulgaris – Yellow Rocket
Cardamine diphylla – Toothwort
Cardamine pensylvanica – PA bittercress
Carex communis – communal sedge
Carex deweyana – Dewey’s sedge
Carex gracillima -graceful sedge
Carex laxiflora – broad loose-flowered sedge
Carex pensylvanica – PA sedge
Carex playtphylla – broad-leaf sedge
Carex tonsa var tonsa – shaved sedge
Fragaria virginiana – strawberry
Geranium robertianum – herb Robert
Luzula campestris – common wood-rush
Maianthemum canadensis – mayflower
Maianthemum racemosum – false Solomon’s seal
Polygonatum pubescens – Solomon’s-seal
Prunus virginiana – chokecherry
Ranunculus abortivus – small-flowered crowfoot
Ranunculus recurvatus – hooked buttercup
Ribes cynosbati – wild gooseberry
Ribes rubrum – northern red currant
Sambucus racemosa ssp. pubens – red elderberry
Thalictrum dioicum – early meadow-rue
Tiarella cordifolia – foam flower
Viola conspersa – American dog violet
Viola pubescens – downy yellow violet
Viola rostrata – long-spurred violet
Viola saggitata – arrow-leaf violet
Viola sororia – common blue violet
Waldsteinia fragarioides – barren strawberry