So far in 2014, since the first spring beauty lifted its little head   above the leaf litter (March 12),

I’ve identified 220 plants in bloom,

54 of which are aliens (usually invasive),

which is 25% of the total;

166 species of natives were found in 63 families;

the aliens were found in 26 families,

and 5 of those families had zero native plants in them.

Oh, and I didn’t log dandelions and white clover.

One out of every four plants an alien.  That’s sobering.