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| Thursday, 14-Jul-2005 00:00 |
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Flowers in Munsinger Gardens
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| Wednesday, 13-Jul-2005 00:00 |
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Small Cramberry
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Flowers
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Last season berries
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Another plant that grows in the bogs and fens of Northern Minnesota. Low, trailing, evergreen shrub with wiry stems, usually forming thick, bushy clumps or mats.
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| Tuesday, 12-Jul-2005 00:00 |
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So what do you suspose this is?
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It is one of two plants and I did not have the book with me when I took the picture. So I am not certain which it is.
It is either Dense Cottongrass or Hudson Bay Clubrush. It grows in fens or bogs and is not a grass or a rush, but a sedge plant.
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| Monday, 11-Jul-2005 00:00 |
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Wild iris from the bogs of Northern Minnesota
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| Sunday, 10-Jul-2005 00:00 |
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Home Sweet Home
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A Morning Dove has a nest in the Balsam Fir tree in our back yard with two baby chicks in it.
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| Friday, 8-Jul-2005 00:00 |
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Lunch on the front porch
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| Saturday, 2-Jul-2005 00:00 |
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Another flower from the bog
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It is called Dragon's Mouth and it grows in cool bogs and drier humps in wet meadow openings in spruce forests. One book suggests that it is very rare and should be rigorously protected. Another book says it is found from Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, south to Indiana and New Jersey.
It is the only species of this genus in North America. Another species is found in Japan. Other pink fen orchids include rose pogonia and swamp pink.
I found these by accident. I saw some wild iris in this bog and was trying to get to them when I noticed these. I have never found this flower before but I would expect it is common in Northeast Minnesota. And it was in a bog a couple hundred yards from the bog with the pitcher plants which are very common in that region.
Have a Happy Forth of July.
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| Friday, 1-Jul-2005 00:00 |
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The past series are of a Pitcher Plant
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Red leaf
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The whole plant
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This plant is known as a Pitcher Plant. It grows in bogs or fens which are usually nutrient poor soils. The leaves hole water and are lined with hairs to make it difficult for an insect, after entering, to crawl back out. The water along with other juice from the plant digests the insect for nurishment.
I believe the leaves are green the first year and turn progressively more to the red color as they age.
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| Thursday, 30-Jun-2005 00:00 |
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Add a couple of leaves to support this flower below
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Any ideas as to what flower this is?
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| Wednesday, 29-Jun-2005 00:00 |
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Anyone know what these are?
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Front fiew
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Backside view
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