Explore
the Adirondack Mountains:
Mid-summer Wildflower Walk
Sunday, 27 July 2014 | 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Adirondack Wildflowers on Barnum Bog: Pitcher Plant (28 July 2012); White-fringed Orchid (28 July 2012); Swamp Candles (27 July 2013)
Bask in the floral beauty of the VIC trails and learn more about flowering plants on a wildflower walk with a VIC naturalist. Several of the plants that flourish in the acidic habitat of Barnum Bog are continuing to bloom. The bog is accessed by a 1,600-foot boardwalk, which provides close-up view of these fascinating plants. Orchids and other wildflowers and flowering shrubs in bloom around this time on Barnum Bog include:
| Cotton Grass (Eriophorum) | Roundleaf Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia L.) |
| Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) | White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis) |
| Rose Pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides) | Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus) |
| Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar lutea) | Swamp Candles (Lysimachia terrestris) |
Many of the mid-summer wildflowers that prefer a mixed conifer/hard wood habitat are also blooming around this time. Look for the these plants blooming or in bud in the VIC's mixed forest habitats:
| Wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens) | Hop clover (Trifolium aureum) |
| Helleborine Orchid (Epipactis helleborine) | Indian Pipe (Monotropa uniflora) |
| Cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare) | Spotted Touch-Me-Not (Impatiens capensis) |
| Dewdrop (Dalibarda repens) | Whorled Wood Aster (Oclemena acuminata) |
The cost of the walk is $20 per person, $15 for Friends of the VIC. Preregistration is required by 5 PM the day before the walk.
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).