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Blooming in the Bog


Visit this page often as we keep it updated all spring and summer with the weekly bloomers at Cedar Bog. This page is was updated September 4, 2009.

Blooming

 

Wild Bergamot
Monarda fistulosa

Family: Mint
Location: Northern Meadows
Fact: Northern Meadows
Fact: Similar to Bee-Balm. The flowers are pinkish or lilac, however, we have had mutant white flowers at the Bog. Once used to treat respiratory ailments because of its scent. Native.
Blooms:  June-September.

 

 Shrubby Cinquefoil
Potentilla fruticosa

Family: Rose
Location: Sedge Meadows
Fact: This is one of the plants that is an indicator of a fen. Native.
Blooms:  June-October.

 

 Stinging Nettle
Urtica dioica

Family: Nettle
Location: Throughout
Fact: Do not touch this plant causes severe itching. Not Native.
Blooms:  June-September.

 

 Joe Pye Weed
Eupatorium maculatum

Family: Aster
Location: Boardwalk into Bog and Northern Meadow Areas
Fact: Native Americans used this plant to treat fevers and American colonists used it to treat typhus. Native.
Blooms:  July-September.

 

 Prairie Dock
Silphium terebinthinaceum

Family: Aster
Location: Throughout
Fact: Native.
Blooms:  August-October.

 

 Tall Ironweed
Vernonia fasciculata

Family: Aster
Location: Upper Meadow Near Chip Path
Fact: Native.
Blooms:  August-October.

 

 Yellow Rocket
Barbarea vulgaris

Family: Mustard
Location: Parking and first boardwalk section
Fact: Yellow Rocket AKA Winter Cress. Not Native.
Blooms:  April-August.




            


            

            

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