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| Issue | Month | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 18:3 | October, 2017 |
Elderberry, The Caretaker (Akiva Silver); Defeating Japanese Stilt Grass with Aggressive Natives (Harold W. Gardner); Name That Plant Contest [prior=(Isotria verticillata)] (David Werier); Letters (Wild Indigo Duskywing -Bob Welsey,Hermit Sphinx caterpillars-Sandy Podulka & Meena Haribal, Gentianopsis crinita- Julia Miller); A Beautiful Butterfly Predator, image Banded Garden Spider (Robert Dirig); Glimpses of a Rare Native: Violet Wood Sorrel in the Finger Lakes [ Oxalis violacea] (Robert Dirig); An Unexpected Find (Solidago squarrosa) (Arieh Tal); Two Common and Under-collected Bryums [Bryum dichotomum, Bryum rubens] (Norm Trigoboff) |
| 18:2 | June, 2017 |
Wild Gardening: Hazelnuts — A Powerful Ally (Akiva Silver); Ellis Hollow Wetland Ramble; FLNPS Facebook site; Name That Plant Contest (Nyssa + new) (David Werier); Letters (Packera aurea, Viola rotundifolia); Plant Trivia Quiz & Answers (Norm Trigoboff); Poet’s Corner: Nasturtium (Mary Gilliland); Review of Hubbard Brook: The Story of a Forest Ecosystem (Stan Scharf); Photo Essay (Steven Daniel, Robert Dirig, Rick Lightbody, Betsy Crispell): Miniature Harbingers of Spring: Dwarf Mistletoe (Arceuthobium pusillum) on Black Spruce (Picea mariana), staminate flowers; Mendon Ponds, N.Y., 9 April 2017, S Daniel; American Beech (Fagus grandifolia), abundant catkins on browsed shoot sprouts, near Dryden,N.Y., 23 May 2006, R Dirig; False Mermaid Weed (Floerkea proserpina-coides); Shindagin Hollow, N.Y., 8 May 2015, R Lightbody; Boreal Club-Mushroom Lichen (Multiclavula mucida), a basidiomycete with a green algal base; Berkshire, N.Y.,1 March 2017, B Crispell |
| 18:1 | March, 2017 |
Wild Gardening/Ecology:I Am In Love with Indian Hemp! (M Haribal); Name That Plant Contest - Rhododendron maximum & Nyssa sylvatica (D Werier); Letters ; Request for sightings of maritime sunburst lichen/Xanthoria parietina (JL Allen ); 2016 Solstice Gathering Photos (R Lightbody); Plant Trivia Quiz & Answers (N Trigoboff); Annotated list of Cayuga Floras Available Online (CR Smith); Website hints (R Parker); Reprints of Solidago articles in other journals (A Silver, H Gardner); Natural History: The Sassafras Path - remembrance of a rural Catskills, NY landscape & its ecology (R Dirig); Reviews: 2016 Solstice Best Native Recipe Award - Indiana Persimmon Pudding with Cinnamon Crème Anglaise (S Podulka) & Members’ Night 2017 recap (R Parker); Late Winter & Spring 2017 Calendar Additional info on Apocyanum (Indian Hemp) article: interacting tritrophic species like spiders, wasps, ants, assassin bugs, etc.; Photos: Mason Wasp (Monobia quadridens), Hunchback Fly (Lepidophora lutea),Wasp-mimicking Fly (Physocephala furcillata), Acadian Hairstreak (Satyrium acadicum), Lesser Peach Tree Borer,(Synanthedon pictipes), Wavy-lined Emerald (Synchlora aerata), Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus), A tetratrophic interaction between a Running or Philodromid Crab Spider (Philodromidae), its Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) prey, and small scavenging flies, Brown-legged Grass Carrier Wasp (Isodontia auripes). |
| Issue | Month | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 17:4 | December, 2016 |
Velvet Foot Fungus (Julia Miller); Rhodotus palmatus (Steve Daniel); Name That Plant Contest (David Werier); Letters (Norm Trigoboff, F. Robert Wesley, Nancy Richards & Michael E. Lynch); Clute’s “Upper Susquehanna Flora” Reprint (Ken Hull); Poet’s Corner: Motherwort (Mary Gilliland); Knight’s Plume Moss (Robert Dirig);Managing Microstegium in the Six Mile Creek Watershed (Brittany Lagaly); Japanese Stilt Grass: A Serious Pest (Hal Gardner); Reviews: The 2016 A. LeRoy Andrews Foray (Norm Trigoboff); An Illuminated Hand Lens for the Field BotanistWho Has Everything (Charles R. Smith); Restoration of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve (Rosemarie Parker); Uneven Ground (Akiva Silver); Natural History: Whispered Secrets of the Stone Wall (Robert Dirig) |
| 17:3 | September, 2016 |
Local Flora: Treasures of the Wayside, A Nod to Ladies’-Tresses (Robert Dirig); A Shagbark’s Year (Robert Dirig); Letters & Photos: Rhododendron maximum (Julia Miller), kudos (Colleen Wolpert), very large Juniperus virginiana (Stan Scharf); Name That Plant Contest: Polygonatum pubescens & humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba) (David Werier); Invasive Stilt Grass at Six Mile Creek: Volunteers Needed (Anna Stalter); Another Plant Puzzle: Phytolacca americana (Norm Trigoboff); Strolling for Ferns: A FLNPS “Ramble” (Rosemarie Parker); Poet’s Corner: Sylvan Anthem (Robert Dirig) Misc photos: woodcuts - Populus deltoides, Birches (R Dirig) |
| 17:2 | June, 2016 |
Perfectly Coordinated—Wild Lupines and Karner Blues in New York (Robert Dirig) Name That Plant Contest: Viburnum acerifolium, Polygonatum pubescens (David Werier); Common bluet (Julia Miller), Haiku & photo of tree sap drinking butterflies (Steve Daniel); NYFA’s 2016 Wildflower of the Year Polygaloides paucifolia; FLNPS Is Now on Facebook (Anna Stalter); Wild Ginger (Robert Dirig & Matthew Dirig); Poet’s Corner: The Pond (Thelma Turner) & Dog Day Harvestfly (Mary Gilliland) & Flight (Thelma Turner); Book Reviews: Wildflowers of New England (Arieh Tal) & Wildflowers of Tennessee (Charles R. Smith) & Thoreau’s Wildflowers (Geoff Wisner); Misc. drawings & photos: Azures (Celastrina sp.) and Water Forget-Me-Not (Myosotis scorpioides) & Marsh Bellflower (Campanula aparinoides) & Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) by R. Dirig |
| 17:1 | March, 2016 |
Getting to Know the Pussytoes of New York State, Genus Antennaria (Asteraceae)(Arieh Tal); Name That Plant Contest: Dissected Grapefern (Botrychium dissectum), (David Werier); Letters (Charles R. Smith - Dudley's Cayuga Flora available; Arieh Tal - Re: Black Locust); 2016 Wildflower of the Year Polygala paucifolia; What Is It? - Stickseed (Mary Weiss-Andersson); Lichen Photos (Betsy Crispell); Reviews:Solstice Celebration 2015 (Rosemarie Parker); Winning Solstice Recipes (R. Parker; D. Werier & S. Brown; B., S., & L. Podulka); Members’ Night, January 2016 (Rosemarie Parker); Plant Ecology: The American Lady’s Interactions with Everlastings (Robert Dirig) |
| Issue | Month | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 16:4 | December, 2015 |
Black Locust Trees, A Slightly Controversial Topic (Akiva Silver); Insect Larval Associates of Black Locust (Robert Dirig); Name That Plant Contest :Low Bindweed (Calystegia spithamaea) (David Werier); Letters (Julia Miller: Spiranthes, Don H. Miller, Colleen Wolpert Turk's Captur Lily & Swallowtails, & Mary Weiss-Andersson); The Bailey Hortorium Herbarium Needs You! (Anna Stalter); FLNPS Is Now on Facebook (Anna Stalter); Wild Gardening New at the Mundy Wildflower Garden: Native Plant Restoration of The Gabions Area (Krissy Boys); Photo Essay: Faces in the Forest! (Norm Trigoboff & Annie Wall); Upcoming FLNPS Talks & Activities: Annual Solstice Gathering (Rosemarie Parker, FLNPS Members’ Night (Rick Lightbody) |
| 16:3 | September, 2015 |
Butterfly Pollinators of Eastern North American Lilies (Richard M. Adams, II, with Robert Dirig); Name That Plant Contest ginseng(David Werier); FLNPS Participates in the New England Botanical Club’s 120th Anniversary Celebration (David Werier); Frost Grape (Vitis riparia) (Robert Dirig); It’s So Bad, It’s Good! (Cliff Brake / Scott LaGreca); Importance of Leaf Distribution in Identification of Species (Arieh Tal) |
| 16:2 | June, 2015 |
Subspecies of Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) in Central New York (Michael Hough); Agrimonia parviflora in Name That Plant Contest (David Werier); Letters (Stanley Scharf, Steve Daniel); Quercus dandlyonii (Rosemarie Parker); The 2015 Spring Plant Sale; Remembrance: Merry Jo Bauer ; Wild Foods- Common Hackberry: The Most Under-rated,Incredible, Edible Tree (Akiva Silver); Essay- Do Plants Dance, Prance, and Wear Pants? (Norm Trigoboff); Review- Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium, March 2015 (Gin Mistry & Rosemarie Parker); Ecology- The Three Hackberry Butterflies of the Finger Lakes (Robert Dirig); Save Our Ashes (Anna Stalter); Winged Giants of Night, Rarely Seen, But Common (Robert Dirig) |
| 16:1 | March, 2015 |
January Members’ Night recap (R Parker); Name That Plant Contest (D Werier) Red Oak & Agrimony; Letters (C Wolpert & A Silver/Sumac followup, S Daniel); Drawing - Snowdrops (Ernst Koie); Eating Chestnuts (A Silver); A Poetic Photo Essay - Nettles, including butterfly associates (R Dirig); Spreading the Natives — Sharing Seeds and Plants for Education (R Parker), Ganondagon State Historic Site, Cayuga Nature Center; Poet’s Corner - Sycamore on Six Mile Creek (K Hull) |
| Issue | Month | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 15:4 | December, 2014 |
Staghorn Sumac: Plant Profile & Rhus Recipes [butterflies & beetles & uses of](R Dirig); Name That Plant - Hibiscus moscheutos (D Werier); Letters (C Wolpert, JF Cryan,& R Ludgate); False Earthstars Addendum - see Solidago 15:3 (R Dirig); Illustration of Tiffany Sumac Window; Native Plants and Food (A Silver); Outing Polson Preserve (G Mistry, N Goldberg, & JD Knapp); ESSAY The Potential Role of Epigenetics in the Origin of Regional Ecotypes [grasses, Monarda, Solidago](HW Gardner); A Poetic Puzzle - Elvenscript [Lichen](R Dirig) |
| 15:3 | September, 2014 |
False Earthstars, Astraeus hygrometricus (Pers.) Morgan (R Dirig); sugar maple(D Werier); Haunts of the Hollow Hickory (N Trigoboff); Oh! Starry Earth, watercolor, Polytrichum & Cladonia (N Cleavitt); Like Bees? Grow Allium cernuum (R Parker); The Benefits of Bare Root Trees; apple, mulberry, persimmon (Akiva Silver); Book Reviews: Field Guide to the New England Alpine Summits (Slack & Bell, reviewed by N Trigoboff); Bumble Bees of North America (P Williams et al) & Where to Find Damselflies and Dragonflies in the Cayuga Lake Region (M Haribal, both reviewed by Bill Evans); Larval Jack-in-the-Boxes: Silver-spotted Skipper, Spicebush Swallowtail (R Dirig) |
| 15:2 | June, 2014 |
Richard Fisher Environmental Conservation Award & oak planting ceremony; Cornus florida; goodbye to Charlotte; request for FLLT gardener; Common Butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris); Onondaga Lake Bioblitz, history of the lake and botanical richness; Shingled Rock Shield -Xanthoparmelia viriduloumbrina illusration; historic 1882 Botany exam; red summer flowers; Cherry Gall Azure (Celastrina serotina) & Harvester Butterfly (Feniseca tarquinius), ERIOPHYID MITES (Phytoptus cerasicrumena; Sustainable Tompkins award; National Moth Week; Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium report-Daryl Morrison, Robert Grese on historic landscaping, Tom Whitlow on salt marsh restoration, Mark Whitmore on Emerald Ash Borer & Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, Karen Gabrielson garden at SUNY Orange, Katherine Wolf project at Niagra, Jim Engles garden at Lagoon Park Canandaigua, Rick Manning on Cayuga Waterfront Trail, Dan Segal on favorite natives for gardens, Heather Connelly on native bees, Janet Allen on pollinators, Tim Noon on controlled burns |
| 15:1 | March, 2014 |
Hardy butterflies (mourning cloak, eastern & grey comma, Compton's & Milton's tortoiseshell); Caulophyllum giganteum; Athyrium species sori & sporangia; Autumn dandelions (Taraxacum)and Sulphur butterflies (response to 14:4); Solstice meeting report & winning recipe (lemon dumplings with elderberry sauce); White pine blister rust & ribes (currents, gooseberries) with photographs from Cornell Plant Pathology Herbarium; Plant Profile-Mayapple; Issues with Soil & Water Conservation Sales: species selection (natives, invasives). |
| Issue | Month | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 14:4 | December, 2013 |
Dandelion, Taraxicum officinale, as a food source for Sulphur butterflies, life cycle of local sulphurs (R. Dirig); Hypericum ascyron (name that plant - D. Werier); coir vs. peat for soil-less mix (letter to ed.); Diploschistes gypsaceus - A Crater Lichen New to New York State, Scott LaGreca; American persimmon, Diospyros virginiana (A. Silver); American Plants for American Gardens by Edith A. Roberts & Elsa Rehmann, book review (William Plummer); Yucca Moth (poem, R. Dirig & drawing, John F. Cryan); Calico Aster, poem by K. Hull; NY DEC Proposal for invasive species (A. Stalter); Hemlock Wooley Adelgid, HWA in Six Mile Creek. |
| 14:3 | October, 2013 |
Bluebottles, Fringes, & Bumbling Bees:Gentians in the Finger Lakes; The cost of [Peat] Moss; A Super-Sassafras Leaf; Maple-leaved Viburnum; A Fascinating Fungal Find (Ophiocordyceps clavulata or “Bug Sputnik”) at Hammond Hill/Park Preserve walk; Status Report-Stilt Grass at Six Mile Creek; Autumn Turtlehead; Smilax herbacea |
| 14:2 | July, 2013 |
Skipper butterflies and Showy Lady -slipper (Cypripedium) orchids, white forms of Cypripedium reginae & C. acaule, report on Ithaca Native Landscape Symposium: Don Leopold - Sampler of Native Plants, Tom Rawinski - White Tailed Deer, Andy Cole- Effect of gas drilling on the environment, Joy Kuebler-SITES & LEEDS programs ("green" building & landscapes), Carl Schwartz-stabilizing stream beds, Chris Lajewski- Montezuma Wetlands, Dan Segal-"Big Horticulture", Jonathan Comstock-Effects of Climate Change on Native Plants, Amy Samuels- Onondaga Lake reclamation plans, Rick Manning-Historic Use of Native Plants in Landscapes; talk report Bernd Blossey on Deer and Invasives; Book Review: RM Beck's The Journey at Malloryvill Bog; Commitment, Teamwork and Tenacity...; Butternut Squash with Cranberry-Apple Quinoa - winning recipe from Solstice Gathering 2012, Iris haiku; historic photos of Arthur J. Eames and L.H. MacDaniels at Eames Preserve. |
| 14:1 | March, 2013 |
twig structure; photo essay-ferns at Clark Reservation; white (blue) lobelia; report on Michael Hough talk -Vascular Flora of Cortland & Onondaga Counties, NY; hepatica image; Nyssa sylvatica and Hebrew moth. |
| Issue | Month | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 13:4 | December, 2012 |
Winter greens & reds; 2012 Andrews foray report, Berkshire county MA (bryophytes & lichens); Seneca Meadows Wetland preserve trip report; lichens at McLean Bog Preserve; tribute to William Dress; Hayscented Fern vs. Vinca. |
