Sunday, May 23, 2021

A Late May Walk on the Trail

Shall we take a walk on the Vestal Rail Trail in Vestal, New York?  At this time of year, there are so many flowers to see. 

I am not the best ID person, and some of my ID's are guesses - feel free to correct me. 

Pictures taken 5-21-21:

These are honeysuckle, and I suspect, from their popularity on the trail, that both are invasive types.  There is a pink flowered one.


And a yellow flowered one.

Wild viburnum.

I "think" this may be a wild strawberry, due to the yellow center, but I've been fooled before.  Seems to me a wild strawberry would have its tiny fruit close to ready, and I have never seen what I know are strawberries in this location before.

OK, here's one.  For years I thought these were Russian olives (they were common in Kansas, where I lived years ago)just without the silvery foliage I remembered.  But one of my regular readers (thank you!) thought these were autumn olives.  I think he is right. 

Here's a closeup of leaves and flowers, taken today.

Finally, a locust tree is starting to flower.  How sweet these flowers smell!  I think this is a black locust - we couldn't see any thorns.

We've been warmer than normal but today was somewhat cloudy and a nice breeze was blowing.  

Happy Sunday to you!

5 comments:

  1. ...honeysuckle and autumn olives have become terrible invasive plants! That's a strawberry, I have some everbearing that are starting to fruit.

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  2. They are all so pretty! Have a nice Sunday evening Alana. :)

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  3. I wouldn't know the difference without signage. Did you know there is an app that identifies plants for you? I wonder how accurate it is.

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  4. Just lovely, Alana! The trees are awakening and the air smells divine here! I wait all year for this!

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