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What's
in Flower Today
Goshen, Montgomery County, MD
7/27/07 Mark Burchick
What's In Flower Today
The Confluence Bottomlands of Goshen and Great Seneca
Goshen, Montgomery County, MD
Butterfly on a nettle.
American Germander (aka wood
sage) Teucrium
canadense
Dwarf St. Johnswort Hypericum
multilum
Horse Nettle
Solanum carolinense
Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Common St. Johnswort Hypericum
perforatum
Purple Fringeless Orchid Platanthera
peramoena
This is what we were looking
for, and found three
individual plants. This
plant is classified as
Maryland Highly State Rare
(S1).
A close-up of the fringeless
orchid, with its absolutely
striking flowers.
Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
Whitetail Deer (female)
Odocoileus virginianus
Did you know that a whitetail
deer has a maximum life
expectancy from between 10 and
20 years,
but that the average suburban
deer only lives from between 2
and 3-years.
Thank
you Dick and Don (MD DNR Natural
Heritage Program).
Mark Burchick
