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WAVENY DISC GOLF
Course Flora
Herbaceous Wildflowers
Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia)
Native to rich, moist woods, and swamps located in the eastern half of the United States and Canada. They bloom in April-August. Flowers can be white, blue or purple.
Carolina Spring Beauty (Claytonia caroliniana)
A small, forest floor, flowering plant, native to the Appalachian Mountains and piedmont. It blooms in the woods in the Course in mid-April.
Fig Buttercup aka Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna)
Snowdrop (Galanthus nivalis)
Native to Europe, but found in eastern North America. An early bloomer. One was found blooming on Hole 11 in March.
Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)
Native to woodland in eastern North America.
Yellow Trout Lilly (Erythronium americanum)
Erythronium americanum, the trout lily, yellow trout lily, fawn lily, yellow adder's-tongue, or yellow dogtooth violet, is a species of perennial, colony forming, spring ephemeral flower native to North America and dwelling in woodland habitats. Within its range it is a very common and widespread species, especially in eastern North America. The common name "trout lily" refers to the appearance of its gray-green leaves mottled with brown or gray, which allegedly resemble the coloring of brook trout.
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Bloodroot is native to eastern North America from Nova Scotia to Florida, and west to the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi embayment. Sanguinaria canadensis grows in moist to dry woods and thickets, often on floodplains and near shores or streams on slopes. They grow less frequently in clearings and meadows or on dunes, and are rarely found in disturbed sites.
Dame's Rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
Dame’s Rocket is a flowering biennial or perennial that grows up to 3 feet high. Its showy, bisymmetric flowers bloom in May and June and range from purple and pink to white and have four petals. Dame’s Rocket is a habitat generalist and will grow in moist woodlands, woodland edges, roadsides, thickets, disturbed sites, and open ground. It prefers moist and mesic non-acidic soils and partial sun. Native to southern Europe from Spain to Turkey, Dame's Rocket was brought to North America in the 17th century and has since become naturalized there, now growing throughout most of the US and Canada. n Connecticut, it is classified as invasive.
False Hellebore (Veratrum viride)
Veratrum viride, known as Indian poke, corn-lily, Indian hellebore, false hellebore, green false hellebore, or giant false-helleborine, is a species of Veratrum native to eastern and western (but not central) North America. It is found in wet soils in meadows, sunny streambanks, and open forests. It is extremely toxic, and is considered a pest plant by farmers with livestock.
Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
Symplocarpus foetidus, commonly known as skunk cabbage or eastern skunk cabbage (also swamp cabbage, clumpfoot cabbage, or meadow cabbage, foetid pothos or polecat weed), is a low-growing plant that grows in wetlands and moist hill slopes of eastern North America. Bruised leaves present an odor reminiscent of skunk.
Greater Burdock (Arctium lappa)
Arctium lappa, commonly called greater burdock, gobō, edible burdock, lappa, beggar's buttons, thorny burr, or happy major, is a Eurasian species of plants in the family Asteraceae, cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable. It has become an invasive weed of high-nitrogen soils in North America, Australia, and other regions.
Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)
Artemisia vulgaris, commonly known as mugwort, common mugwort, or wormwood, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae. Mugworts have been used medicinally and as culinary herbs. Artemisia vulgaris is native to temperate Europe, Asia, North Africa, and Alaska, and is naturalized in North America, where some consider it an invasive weed. It is a common plant growing in places containing low-nitrogen soils, such as waste places, roadsides and uncultivated areas.
Common Cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex)
Potentilla simplex, also known as common cinquefoil or old-field five-fingers or oldfield cinquefoil, is a perennial herb in the Rosaceae (rose) family native to eastern North America from Ontario, Quebec, and Labrador south to Texas, Alabama, and panhandle Florida. It is commonly found in woodlands, fields, and disturbed areas.
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