List of the things we saw on our field trip to the White Lake Fen with leader Michael Runtz…
(* = Orchid)
*Melaxis unifolia (Green Orchid)
*Showy Lady’s-Slipper (Hairy)
*Pink Lady’s-Slipper (Two Basal Leaves at Bottom)
*Grass Pink Calopogon tuberosus (Insect Pod is on Top)
*White Bog Orchid (Smells Like Cloves)
*Rose Pogonia (One Flower Per Plant)
*Yellow Lady’s-Slipper (Not Hairy)
*Northern Green Orchis (Hybrid to the Bog Orchid / Tall Northern Green Orchid)
*Helleborine orchid
Labrador Tea (Orange Fuzz)
One-sided or One-flowered Pyrola/Wintergreen (Indicates a cold climate)
Wild Iris
Pitcher Plants
Phragmites sp. (Tall Grass)
Bog Rosemary
Round-leaved Sundew (Carnivorous)
Swamp Milk Weed
Bladderwort (Carnivorous – Bladders Capture Insects)
Arrowgrass
Purple Loosestrife
Buckthorn
Plaintain
Cotton Grass (Tall)
Black Spruce (Fine Needles, Orange Branch)
Creeping Snowberry
Yellow Flower Bladderwort Utricularia intermedia
Bedstraw
Fringed Sedge Carex crinita
Self Heal Plant (Low Dose Aspirin)
Oak Fern (Three Leaves)
New York Fern
Lady Fern
Crested Wood Fern (Ladder Leaves)
Sensitive Fern
Liverwort
Horsetail Palustris sp.
Scarlet Waxy Cap Mushroom
Mycena sp. Mushroom
“Bog Sprite” (Damsel Fly)
Bog Copper Butterfly (Copper and Purple)
New England Buckmoth Hemileuca lucina caterpillar (rare and poisonous)
Prince Baskettail Dragonfly
Elfin Skimmer (White Face Dragonfly with Red Body / Smallest Dragonfly in North America)
Widow Skimmer Dragonfly (Black and White Wings)
Spring Peeper Frog
Leopard Frog
White-throated Sparrow
Cedar Waxwing
Black-capped Chickadee
Purple Finch
American Robin
Nashville Warbler
Swamp Sparrow
Yellowthroat warbler
(Trip Continued to Stewartville Swamp…)
*Fen Twayblade Liparis loeselii
*Round Leaf Orchid (White Flower)
*Dwarf Rattlesnake Plantain Orchid
Enchanter’s Nightshade
Clintonia (Blue Bead Lily)
Creeping Snowberry
Giant Jack-In-The-Pulpit
Marsh Marigold
Poison Ivy
Indian Pipe (Pine Sap Species / Multiple Flowers / Yellow Colour)
Boot’s Wood Fern (natural hybrid between Dryopteris cristata X D.intermedia)
Bulblet Fern
Calcarrius (Public Hair-Like Horsetail)???
Shining Club Moss
Yellow Waxy Cap Mushroom
Scaly Inky Cap Mushroom
Russula sp. Mushroom
Artist’s Conk
Wood Frog
Bull Frog
Four-toed Salamander
Northern Goshawk