Vol. 7, no. 32, Tuesday, August 6, 2002
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Monday, July 29. Byron (Map 18) We're visiting here from Pennsylvania. I found some blueberries along the Loop Trail ascending Tumbledown Mountain. I was pleasantly surprised to find them! I try to visit Maine every summer and enjoy Maine Nature News during the rest of the year. D.R.
Tuesday, August 6. Fort Kent (Map 67) Still no ripe blueberries at our location,
but there are a few on the St. John River bank.
July 31 -- Fort Kent. Have been seeing new alder cones with flaps of red on them. Thought it might be a gall insect, but nothing like in the gall book. I asked forester Ken White. He looked it up in a pathology book and told me it is a fungus, a Taphrinas. When, mature the spores will turn the scarlet flaps silvery.
August 2 -- Frenchville. Turtlehead in flower. Stachys palustris ssp. arenicola
is starting to open: common name woundwort or marsh hedge nettle. This subspecies was identified by calyx hairs that are a mixture of glangular and longer eglangular hairs, and stem pubescence with hairs on the angles and faces of the stem of similar length. It is an uncommon plant of wet meadows and fields and shores. Both of these plants are on the banks of the St.
John River
August 5 -- Fort Kent. Eyebrights are starting to flower. Joe-Pye is showing pink. Numerous goldenrods blooming. Whorled wood Aster and Spurred Gentians flowering in the woods.
August 6 -- Fort Kent. After several warm nights in the mid 60's, we are down to 52 degrees F. this morning. Highs have not been above 79 degrees. G.F.
In
response to J.B.'s question of July 25, 2002, about
a flower that is abundant in saamps and wetlands of Biddeford and Saco, G.F of
Fort Kent sends the following answer:
Tuesday, August 6. A small picture is difficult to use for identification, but I think it is a vervain. My first thought was Purple Loosestrife (from the color), but the unopened bud looks like vervain, as does the size against the notebook. G.F.
Maine Wild Blueberry Report for July 31 - August 6, 2002
Unripe
fruiting stage: Northeast Aroostook County
Early ripe fruiting stage: Southeast Aroostook , Northern
Penobscot and Piscataquis Counties
Middle ripe fruiting stage: Hancock and Southern
Penobscot Counties
No reports: other Maine counties
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