| July 30 |
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There was an abrupt appearance of mushrooms on one of the trails in UW-Green Bay's Cofrin Arboretum. Two days ago, there were no mushrooms there. |
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| July 28 |
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Giant goldenrod (Solidago gigantea) has begun to flower. You can find more photos and explanation here. In spite of the common name it isn't necessarily the largest species of goldenrod, but it is one of the earliest to begin flowering in our area. |
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| July 26 |
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Prairie Dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum) has begun to flower in planted prairie. |
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| July 25 |
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The weedy, alien honeysuckle shrubs are now conspicuously in ripe fruit. There are 3 species in this group in the Green Bay area and the color of the fruit is not diagnostic for separating the species--orange and red both occurring in the same species though usually not on the same plant. |
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| July 23 |
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Orange touch-me-not (Impatiens capensis) is now in flower. The flowers are highly modified and the bright color is quickly noticed. |
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| July 22 |
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Here's a photo of some colorful flowering plants in a local field. Click on the thumbnail for a larger photo with labels for the plants. The St. John's-wort, hoary alyssum and wild carrot are alien species. |
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| July 21 |
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The purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) has begun to flower in planted prairies locally. It is not native this far north, but it does pretty well when planted. [pale purple coneflower (Echinaceae pallida) has been in flower since late June] |
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| July 20 |
The hot, humid weather has ended. Today's high temperature was 74° F and the humidity is much lower. |
| July 19 |
High temperature 93° F.
The large bull thistle (Cirsium vulgare) has begun to flower. |
| July 18 |
Hot and humid weather has settled into Wisconsin, with Green Bay high temperatures of 89, 91, 92, 92 (° F) the last 4 days, and dew points in the mid 70's. Today to 89° and dewpoint 74° before 11:00 a.m., with 93° F predicted. [the high did in fact reach 93]
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Monkey flower (Mimulus ringens) is now in flower. |
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| July 17 |
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Culver's-root (Veronicastrum virginicum) in flower in planted prairie on UWGB. It probably began a little earlier on sandier soils. |
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| July 14 |
| Canadian tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense), lead plant (Amorpha canescens), compass plant (Silphium laciniatum) and Mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) have begun to flower in prairie plantings since July 6. |
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| July 6 |
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Day lily (Hemerocallis fulva) is now in flower. This is an alien species from Asia that is very widely planted. Although it doesn't appear to spread often by seed, once planted it expands as large clones which last for decades in many cases, as along roadsides. |
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| July 5 |
Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus vitacea; also called P. inserta) is now beginnining to flower. |
| July 3 |
Water plantain (Alisma triviale) began to flower today on the UW-Green Bay campus. |
| July 2 |
| There are just a few open flowers of chickory (Cichorium intybus) now, but we should be seeing very large numbers very soon. |
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| July 1 |
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Ox-eye (Heliopsis helianthoides) began to flower today in UW-Green Bays prairie. This is the latest date for start of flowering in 28 years. |
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May 20, 2015