Flowers seen May 14 – May 31:

• blue-eyed grass
• bulbous buttercup*
• northern catalpa
• dwarf dandelion
• field hawkweed*
• daisy fleabane
• robin plantain
• hairy beardtongue
• honewort
• tall meadow rue
• mossy stonecrop*
• partridgeberry
• poison hemlock*
• poison ivy
• princess tree*
• puttyroot
• veiny skullcap
• squaw root
• stinging nettle
• strawberry bush
• tulip poplar
• Venus’ looking glass
• Virginia waterleaf
• broad-leaved waterleaf
• wild licorice

…bringing the year’s total to 153 species in 54 families, with Ranunculaceae in the lead, Brassicaceae a close second, and Violaceae, Rosaceae and Asteraceae in a 3-way tie for third.  Thirty two (about 21%) are aliens.

*alien