Tuesday, June 6, 2017

May Retrospective

May is the floweringest month.  Here is a (slightly belated) photo chronology for May, 2017.

May 2nd
 Scarlet oak.

 Flowering dogwood.

 Sugar maple.

 Ash-leaved maple.

May 3rd.
 A grass.  (Haven't got round to identifying it.)

 White pine "candles" (new twig and needles.)

 Witchhazel (flower buds will not open until fall).

May 4th.
 Black oak.

 White oak getting ready to flower.

 Another grass.

May 6th.
 Black oak.

 Shepherd's purse (a weed in the mustard family).

 Gray birch.

 White ash (male).

 River birch.

May 8th.
 Elderberry.

Pin oak.

May 10th.

Witchhazel.
May 11th.
Mulberry.

Red maple.


Black oak.

Flowering dogwood.

Yew.

Sugar maple.

 Sheep sorrel.


Ash-leaved maple.

Swamp white oak.

White ash.

River birch.

May 13th.
Red maple.

White pine.

Norway maple.

Grasses.


May 16th.
White oak.

Black oak.


White ash.

May 19th.
Buttercup.



May 20th.
Red maple with dead seeds.



White pine with growing pollen cones.  

Cinquefoil.

Black oak.

White ash.
White spruce.
May 21st.
Black cherry.

American holly

May 23rd.

Basswood.

White oak.

Shagbark hickory.


Black oak.

May 27th.
White pine pollen cones.

Black raspberry.


Gray birch.

Basswood.

White ash.


Witchhazel with remains of last year's fruit.

May 29th.
White spruce.
Bittersweet.

Shagbark hickory.

Swamp white oak.

Ash-leaved maple.

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