Explore
the Adirondack Mountains:
Wildflower Walk
Sunday, 29 June 2014 | 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Adirondack Wildflowers: Common Wood Sorrel on the Boreal Life Trail, Rose Pogonia on Barnum Bog, and Twinflower on the Barnum Brook Trail
Bask in the floral beauty of the VIC trails and learn more about flowering plants on a wildflower walk with a VIC naturalist. Late June is a particularly interesting time to study wildflowers. The orchids that flourish in the acidic habitat of Barnum Bog are coming into 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) | Sheep Laurel (Kalmia angustifolia) |
| Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea) | White Fringed Orchid (Platanthera blephariglottis) |
| Rose Pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides) | Grass Pink (Calopogon tuberosus) |
| Yellow Pond Lily (Nuphar lutea) | Marsh Cinquefoil (Comarum palustre) |
Many of the 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:
| Common Wood Sorrel (Oxalis montana) | Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) |
| Shinleaf (Pyrola elliptica) | Spreading Dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium) |
| Twinflower (Linnaea borealis) | Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) |
| Dewdrop (Dalibarda repens) | One-sided Pyrola (Orthilia secunda) |
The cost of the walk is $20 per person, $15 for Friends of the VIC. Preregistration is required by 5 PM on 28 June.
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).