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05-05-2008, 05:01 PM
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I saw my first trillium of the year today. It was just a bud, not yet open. I also saw a medium size yellow flower with six pointed petals. The leaves were mottled. I have never seen these before. It was not on an old overgrown farm; It was in big woods. I'll get a picture next week when I'm there with a forester.
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05-05-2008, 06:18 PM
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"Standing On the Side of Love"
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man
I saw my first trillium of the year today. It was just a bud, not yet open. I also saw a medium size yellow flower with six pointed petals. The leaves were mottled. I have never seen these before. It was not on an old overgrown farm; It was in big woods. I'll get a picture next week when I'm there with a forester.
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There is a forest floor plant with 2 mottled leaves, sort of an olive green and mottled with almost purple. The flower is a drooping bell shaped star. I don't know the name of it; they are all over out back.....but not in bloom yet. |
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05-06-2008, 11:49 AM
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"Standing On the Side of Love"
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Dog Tooth Violet
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Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man
I saw my first trillium of the year today. It was just a bud, not yet open. I also saw a medium size yellow flower with six pointed petals. The leaves were mottled. I have never seen these before. It was not on an old overgrown farm; It was in big woods. I'll get a picture next week when I'm there with a forester.
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Common name "Dog Tooth Violet" but it isnt a violet at all it is a member of the lily family. They're in bloom now!
Last edited by elston; 05-06-2008 at 12:00 PM..
Reason: To remove a photo that i found on google but noticed it was copyrights.
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05-07-2008, 08:09 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: on a dirt road in Waitsfield,Vermont
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I love all the flowers everyone has mentioned. Nasturtiams are great to put in salads, they have a cool peppery flavor. I also love irises, bleeding hearts and dayliilies.
When I was a kid it wasn't all that rare to see lady slippers in the woods. Now I rarely see one. By pure dumb luck I found a couple of these beauties growing 10 feet from my campsite near Fryburg a couple of years ago.
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05-07-2008, 08:20 PM
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Location: Laguna Woods, CA
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About 25 years ago I lived in the top floor of 763 Main Street in South Portland. This is between the turnpike spur and Massachusetts Avenue. It borders the back roadway to the apartment complex next to the turnpike spur. There was a stretch of woods along that road in back of the house where I lived that had more lady slippers than I had ever seen. I lived there for about eight years, and every spring I walked back through there and was always amazed at those lovely flowers. If I remember correctly in addition to the pink variety there were yellow ones as well. I believe there were also some Jack in the Pulpit plants.
Anyone adventurous enough to go see if they still grow there?
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05-07-2008, 08:24 PM
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"Standing On the Side of Love"
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I found a large patch of the pink lady slippers growing in Kennebunk a few years ago...I stopped for an off road "pit stop" and found myself surrounded by hundreds of lady slipprs.
A high school class in Lincoln NH with the help of an amazing teacher successfully cloned lady slippers and was reintroducing them to their former range....and was financing it by selling them for private gardens.
Next, I am looking for Jack In The Pulpit.
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05-08-2008, 07:51 PM
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Are lady slippers protected here in Maine? They are in Mass I believe...I love them.
Maine=lupine for me...last year I couldn't get over how beautiful it was.
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05-08-2008, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by CapeCodder
Are lady slippers protected here in Maine? They are in Mass I believe...I love them.
Maine=lupine for me...last year I couldn't get over how beautiful it was.
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I found this question and answer regarding Lady Slippers on a Maine Forestry website.
Is it illegal to pick rare plants?
There are no laws prohibiting the collection of any plant species in the state of Maine. However, in the interest of perpetuating Maine’s natural heritage we strongly advise against the collection of any rare plants.
So I guess you can garnish your salad with them if you want to! |
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05-09-2008, 07:22 AM
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Corinth, ME homeowner
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Fields Pond Spring Fest
I just read in the paper yesterday that tomorrow (Sat. May 10) these folks are holding a Spring Fest and included is a "PLANT SALE with native plants field grown at Rebel Hill Farm in Clifton" (10am-1pm) and a "walk and talk: native plants" session at 10:30.
They are located at 216 Fields Pond Road, Holden, Maine about 10 mi south of Bangor. I am hoping to get out there tomorrow morning to learn more about local plants and birds. |
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05-09-2008, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Maineah
I found this question and answer regarding Lady Slippers on a Maine Forestry website.
Is it illegal to pick rare plants?
There are no laws prohibiting the collection of any plant species in the state of Maine. However, in the interest of perpetuating Maine’s natural heritage we strongly advise against the collection of any rare plants.
So I guess you can garnish your salad with them if you want to!
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I'll tell my sister to try it...she's got a bunch in the woods behind her house.  |
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