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| Passion Flower |
The Fall calendar month of September is usually a good time to look for wildflowers, and the Spring Island Master Naturalist group chose the Webb Wildlife Center WMA as a prime location. The Webb Center is under management which includes regular prescribed fire, and regular fire is what the Southeastern forests evolved with. Juliana Smith from Spring Island led the intrepid group of Master Naturalists into the piney woods to look for and locate wildflowers. Asters are the number one wildflower family found, and the second is the orchid family. To the layman a sea of yellow flowers graces roadsides and fallow fields, which are all attractors for pollinators, but among that yellow plethora of petals are some other fine flowers with colorful names. Rattlesnake Master, Passion Flower, Lobelia, Cone Flower, and many more. The shape of the flower itself might lend itself to attract a certain kind of pollinator including bees, beetles, birds, butterflies, moths and even the wind! We were armed with two handouts to decipher the wildflower equation, but it is complicated because these flowers employ tactics including color, nectar guides, odor and petal shape. Within the confines of the morning hours on Sept. 22 we made several stops and enjoyed viewing the entire landscape that is home to these precious natural resources.
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| Bog Cheeto (Not real name!) |
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