November 30, 2018 at 6:02 pm · Filed under Wildflowers: Green ·Tagged Lichen, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Onion Grass, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Autumn Greens . . .
November: Impressionist Greens (Lichen & Moss)
The language of autumn so often goes to “russet glows” and ‘the tang” conveyed by the leaves, shed, and drying to curls, colors bright of yellow, orange, and red leading to brown.
November, the fleeting, waning of an Equinox, allows a continuity to the growing season when as wet as has been this year. Look closer to see lingering to lushness of veins of rich green nestled within all this glowing russet bed.
Green in the the moss and the lichen feasting on some of the clearest damp air of the year.
Green is the onion grass bathed by the sunset, light framed and focused by a high line of underglowed cloud stretched across the horizon of the Hudson.
Wildflowers in the West Village.
— rPs 11 30 2018
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October 31, 2018 at 10:46 am · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged New York, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Wildflowers
Halloween Color . . .
Halloween Foliage: Somewhere in New York
(10 30 2018)
Perhaps the most iconic Halloween image is the bright orange pumpkin. Leaves of the sugar maple have a similar shade, and the wildflowers of the late autumn, if not ghost white, are a shade of yellow, gold, or Halloween orange.
Northern Bush-honeysuckle:
Diervilla lonicera
(NY 10 30 2018)
— rps 10 31 2018
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September 30, 2018 at 5:17 pm · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Blue, Wildflowers: White ·Tagged American Pokeweed, Asiatic Dayflower, Asters, New York City Trees, Upper West Side, West Village, White Snakeroot, Wildflowers
September Contrast . . .
Rainy Day Salad: Dayflower, Lady’s Thumb, Pokeweed
(09 2018)
September, full of promise, and fast going.
The ninth month in New York City is often a gray and green temperate deluge, or else a sun, golden, set in a bluebird bright sky, high and dry.
One natural extreme, or the other, contrast with very little, an almost imperceptible, transition time if you get some sleep overnight.
Late-Summer Whites: Asters & Snakeroot
(09 2018)
— rPs 09 30 2018
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August 31, 2018 at 11:26 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged Fungi, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Cinnamon Sighting(s) . . .
Cinnamon Chanterelle in the Rain
(08 2018)
Cinnamon Chanterelle (Cantharellus cinnabarinus), quite an unexpected appearance, has popped up here and there, no doubt because of the incessant rainfall on the the West Village.
Attractive, and edible, find small bright colonies around damp tree roots and other wooded areas.
Tiny Beauty
(08 2018)
— rPs 08 31 2018
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July 31, 2018 at 3:00 pm · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: Red ·Tagged Ginkgo, Malus, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Smooth Sumac, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Wild Fruits of the West Village . . .
Rhus coriaria
(NYC 07 2018)
The growing season appears good. Strung between brights days have been beads of clouded days flush with rain enough to make the city green space lush.
The crabapple grove in the park is so much an orchard as the roadside strip of sumac bearing berries ripe for the making of cool drinks. Many of the fruiting trees are now heavy with their fruit.
Malus
(NYC 07 2018)
And some has already dropped to damp earth.
Ginkgo biloba
(NYC 2018)
— rPs 07 31 2018
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June 16, 2018 at 8:08 pm · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: White ·Tagged Bloomsday, James Joyce, New York, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Bloomsday 2018
Clover . . . Bloom.
(NYC 06 2018)
Today is June 16, the date immortalized in James Joyce’s novel, Ulysses, the day now come to be called . . .
Bloomsday.
– rPs 06 16 2018
Postscript: Read the full Bloomsday story from the WWV archives here: https://wildflowersofthewestvillage.com/2010/06/16/bloomsday/
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May 6, 2018 at 7:17 pm · Filed under Wild Non-Flowering Plants, Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: White, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Dandelion, English Plantain, Garlic Mustard, Gary Lincoff, Manhattan, Mushrooms, New York City, Red Deadnettle, Upper West Side, West Village, Wild Violet, Wildflowers
Flores de Mayo . . .
Viola sororia
(NYC 05 06 2018)
Instant summer temperatures in the center heart of the spring season have made Manhattan bloom at the start of May.
Just a few days of sun and shower have combined to turn the blue, white, and brown tones of the cold season into a multicolored outdoor scene anchored in green:
Dandelion
Taxicum officinale
(NYC 05 06 2018)
Dead-nettle
Lamium purpureum
(NYC 05 06 2018)
English Plaintain
Plantago lanceolata
(NYC 05 06 2018)
Garlic Mustard
Alliarim petiolata
(NYC 05 06 2018)
And one for the late Gary Lincoff, mycologist, guide, and author, who left us in Manhattan on March 16th:
Order Agaricales: for Gary
(NYC 05 05 2018)
Memories remain as May flowers on the West Side of Manhattan.
— rPs 05 06 2018
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