Explore
the Adirondack Mountains:
Wildflower Workshop
Saturday, 13 June 2015
Late spring wildflowers at the Paul Smiths VIC: Pink Lady's Slipper, Blue Flag Iris, and Spreading Dogbane
Join naturalist Frank Lescinsky for an afternoon lecture and walk from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM to learn about and see the late-spring wildflowers growing in the woods and wetlands of the VIC.
- Wetland plants blooming around mid-June at the VIC include Labrador Tea, Sheep Laurel, Blue Flag Iris, Cotton Grass, and Pitcher Plant.
- Mid-June is also a good time to check out the Pink Lady's Slippers, which are especially striking on the north side of the Barnum Brook Trail.
- Other upland plants blooming at this time include Indian Cucumber-root, Clintonia, Wild Raisin, Bunchberry, Twinflower, and Spreading Dogbane.
Cost: $20, $15 for Friends of the VIC. Please preregister by 5:00 PM the day before.
Sources of Information on Adirondack Wildflowers
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Native Plant Database.
- United States Department of Agriculture. Plants Database.
- University of Michigan. Native American Ethnobotany. A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples, Derived from Plants.
- NatureServe Explorer. Online Encyclopedia of Life.
- University of Wisconsin. Robert W. Freckmann Herbarium.
- Flora of North America. Database.
- Connecticut Wildflowers. Wildflower Guide.
- Minnesota Wildflowers. Database.
- ENature. Wildflower Field Guide.
- Doug Ladd. North Woods Wildflowers (Falcon Publishing, 2001).
- Lawrence Newcomb. Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Little Brown and Company, 1977).
- Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny. A Field Guide to Wildflowers. Northeastern and North-central North America (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968).
- National Audubon Society. Field Guide to Wildflowers. Eastern Region. (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001).
- William K. Chapman, et al. Wildflowers of New York in Color (Syracuse University Press, 1998).
- Anne McGrath. Wildflowers of the Adirondacks (EarthWords, 1981, 2000).
- Meiyin Wu and Dennis Kalma. Wetland Plants of the Adirondacks. Herbaceous Plants and Aquatic Plants(Trafford Publishing, 2010).
- Ruth Schottman. Trailside Notes: A Naturalist's Companion to Adirondack Plants (Adirondack Mountain Club, 1998).
- William K. Chapman. Orchids of the Northeast. A Field Guide (Syracuse University Press, 1997).