Summer is almost here, and the woods and fields are full of wildflowers. As usual, I had to get out my field guides because there are some I canât remember; they look too much alike, all of those little purple or white flowers along the edge of the lawn.
According to my Petersonâs field guides, in the northeast, which the guides define as reaching from West Virginia to the Ohio Valley to southern Canada, there are 646 species of trees, shrubs and woody vines, plus 1,293 species of flowering plants. That includes 12 kinds of buttercups, 20 kinds of clover and 28 sorts of goldenrods. And that, they say, doesnât include the various color variations and varieties only an expert can tell apart.![]()
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