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Overview: Listed as threatened or endangered in most states, the Yellow-Fringed Orchid ranges from southern New England west to southern Ontario (historic), southern Michigan, Illinois south along the coastal plain to Florida, and west to Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri.  Its flowers are bright yellow to orange in coloring, with distinctive fringed lips, and clustered in […]

Background: Many of you are probably finding an abundance of this aggressive invader in your gardens this time of year.  Garlic mustard, or Alliaria petiolate is an herbaceous, biennial forb recognized by the garlic odor it releases when crushed.  Originally from Europe, it was introduced in the U.S. in the 1800’s for medicinal and culinary

Overview: Cirsium lecontei occurs on the sandy pinelands of southern coastal plain in damp soil (where  co-occurring species include Myrica, Cyrilla, and Ilex), specifically in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina. They are also found in moist to wet grassy pine savannas and pine barrens, bogs (other species present include pitcher plants, Ilex, sedges, grasses, and sphagnum), and roadside ditches. LeConte’s thistle is a perennial