Tag Archives: wildflower

05.25.2025 Silent Sunday

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Steve Gingold

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cypripedium acaule, native orchid, native plant, native wildflower, pink lady's slipper, white lady's slipper, wildflower | 12 Comments

05.24.2025 My Favorite Spring Ephemeral…Can You Guess What It Is?

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Steve Gingold

Those of you who have been acquainted with me for a while sure do know, I bet. 🙂 We’ve had a goodly amount of rain lately which I don’t mind as catching flowers with raindrops is a favorite thing, especially … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged flower with raindrops, native flower, native wildflower, painted trillium, Raindrops, spring ephemeral, Trillium undulatum, wildflower | 24 Comments

05.23.2025 A poor excuse of an explanation

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Steve Gingold

For my earlier post I couldn’t decide whether to acknowledge my absence and decided to not since I did that once before and then disappeared again. I can’t say for sure whether that’ll be the case this time but it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cypripedium acaule, native orchid, native wildflower, pink lady's slipper, Sand Hill Road, wild orchid, wildflower | 19 Comments

08.24.2023 One of Nature’s little mysteries

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Steve Gingold

White Slant-line Moth-Tetracis cachexiata on Pink Lady’s Slipper-Cypripedium acaule It’s a mystery why this species of moth frequents this species of orchid. A blogger who observes and writes about many different nature subjects, Charley Eiseman, posted about this several years … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cypripedium acaule, Dean Brook, flora, flower, Geometrid Moth, Geometridae, insect, lepidoptera, Mary Oliver, Moths, Orchid, orchidaceae, pink lady's slipper, Pink Mocassin Flower, Shutesbury, Slant-Lines, Tetracis, Tetracis cachexiata, white slant-line, wildflower | 20 Comments

09.09.2018 Greater Fringed Gentian Buds

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Steve Gingold

Hard to believe it’s that time of year already. Not quite foliage time but I have seen changes starting, especially on some maples, already and this morning we actually have a chill in the air. I could see my breath … Continue reading →

Posted in Closeup Photography, Flora, Nature Photography, wildflower portrait, Wildflowers | Tagged Fringed Gentian, Gentianopsis crinita, Greater Fringed Gentian, native flowers, native plant, native species, native wildflower, Quabbin wildflowers, wildflower | 15 Comments

08.24.2018 Common Bladderwort-Utricularia vulgaris

Posted on August 24, 2018 by Steve Gingold

Here is another carnivorous plant albeit a fairly small one. These are the little yellow flowers you see extended above shallow waters on the edges of ponds. They have little trapdoors that can snap shut faster than the speed of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Common Bladderwort, flora, native plant, native wildflower, Utricularia vulgaris, wetland plant, wildflower | 17 Comments

05.19.2018 The annual PT

Posted on May 19, 2018 by Steve Gingold

Painted Trillium, that is. 🙂

Posted in Closeup Photography, Flora | Tagged flora, Massachusetts, native flowers, native plant, native wildflower, New England, painted trillium, Shutesbury, Trillium undulatum, western massachusetts, wildflower, Wildflowers | 18 Comments

08.26.2015 Fern-leaved False Foxglove

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Steve Gingold

One of the wildflowers I look for annually during a Quabbin Park ride around is this lovely native yellow flower (Aureolaria pedicularia) that often exhibits a bushy growth which can reach about 3 feet in height. Happy Humpday folks. We … Continue reading →

Posted in Closeup Photography, Flora, Nature Photography, Wildflowers | Tagged Aureolaria pedicularia, Fern-leaved False Foxglove, flora, Massachusetts, native flowers, native plant, native species, native wildflower, New England, Quabbin, Quabbin flowers, Quabbin Park, Quabbin plants, wildflower | 11 Comments

07.23.2015 Horse Nettle

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Steve Gingold

Anything with the name “Nettle” gets my full attention. Having bumped into more than my share of Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica), I am too aware of the result if one is careless around all those tiny irritating and sometime pain … Continue reading →

Posted in Closeup Photography, Flora, Nature Photography, Wildflowers | Tagged Caolina Nightshade, flora, Horse Nettle, native plant, native wildflower, Solanum carolinense, toxic plant, western massachusetts, wildflower, Wildflowers | 16 Comments

09.25.2014 Butter and Eggs

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Steve Gingold

Mmmmm…sounds like a delightful start to the day and it was. To be clear, I had my usual bowl of sticks and twigs with fruit and milk, a glass of OJ and a handful of supplements. The Butter and Eggs … Continue reading →

Posted in Closeup Photography, Flora, Nature Photography, Western Massachusetts | Tagged Amherst, Butter and Eggs, flora, Linaria vulgaris, non-native flowers, non-native wildflowers, Toadflax, wildflower | 18 Comments