Clumps of crescent-shaped seed pods embellished a dried plant that stood a few feet tall. The plant lined an open trail and called for a closer examination.
Roadside Attractions
Roads themselves are notoriously busy places. Fast human transportation is concentrated within these strips of pavement that cut through what can often be a human-designed landscape, be it housing or farmland or something else. But between the road and the other development, there tends to be a section largely neglected by deliberate human interference and left to its own devices. The roadside.
Counting Arthropods in a Patch of Daisy Fleabane
On a sunny summer morning I spent well over an hour examining a patch of daisy fleabane, a weedy plant that stands at about four feet tall and is topped with small white flowers that are daisy-like with fringed petals surrounding a yellow center. I was at this flower patch for the purpose of counting arthropods.
Palette of False Solomon's Seal
False Solomon’s seal is a plant that I stumble upon every so often in woodlands. I recently found a grouping of them with their naturally leaning stems standing just over two feet tall. The stems were lined with large, ovate leaves arranged into an alternating pattern. At the very end of each stem were berries.
