Archive for Wildflowers: Purple
August 31, 2020 at 3:51 pm · Filed under Wildflowers: Blue, Wildflowers: Green, Wildflowers: Orange, Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: White, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Harvest, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
August Harvest . . .
A summer salad of Asiatic dayflower, Galinsoga, and Lady’s Thumb.
(NYC 08 31 2020)
Family and friends have begun to share photos, and salads, from their gardens as the month of August comes to a close. The wild patches of Manhattan’s west side have also reached their peak of productivity.
A morning walk, or a stroll to watch the evening sun set behind the Hudson, will also be accompanied by a diverse harvest of native and immigrant wildflowers in full bloom and fruit. This salad bar of sorts includes:
American Pokeweed, Phytolacca americana
(NYC 08 17 2020)
Bittersweet Nightshade, Solanum dulcamara
(NYC 08 31 2020)
Broadleaf Plantain, Plantago major
(NYC 08 31 2020)
Butter and Eggs, Linaria vulgaris
(08 08 2020)
Chicory, Cichorium intybus
(NYC 08 2020)
Common Black Nightshade, Solanum nigrum
(NYC 08 17 2020)
Common Mallow, Malva neglecta
(NYC 08 17 2020)
Galinsoga, Galinsoga parviflora
(NYC 08 17 2020)
Lady’s Thumb, Persicaria maculosa
(NYC 08 17 2020)
Marestail, Conyza canadensis
(NYC 08 31 2020)
There is quite a selection to see. August’s harvest is here.
— rPs 08 31 2020
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April 22, 2020 at 11:07 am · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Blue, Wildflowers: Purple ·Tagged Central Park, Earth Day, Earth Day 50, Manhattan, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wild Violet, Wildflowers
Earth Day 50 . . .
The Globe by Kim Brandell on Earth Day 50 Morning.
(NYC 04 22 2020)
Ten years ago on Earth Day 40 I walked in Central Park and wrote of the lovely clear spring day it was and how nature and the city seemed to be in ecological balance.
Ten years later we find New York City like the rest of the world locked down in the midst of a global pandemic. The weather is the same, even more intensely clear and crisp, but the human activity is mostly absent.
My everyday life has me fall under the category of “essential (healthcare) worker” who also happens to work the night shift. My morning commute home, a healthy walk rather than a horrid subway ride, today took me through Central Park to revisit the view of a decade ago, which remains the same except for the spikes of several new supertall condominum towers stretched along the width of Central Park South.
Viola sororia, bi-colored form, claims a crack near Columbus Circle.
(NYC 04 2020)
My strongest impression is that the high blue sky clear of jet vapor trails and streets devoid of the numbing hum of peak vehicular traffic have given the city, in fact the entire planet, a pause to catch its natural breath. It’s as if the Earth is itself a meta unicellular creature exclaiming: “Thank you for ceasing to stress me with all that bad gas. Here is a perfect spring day as a reward.”
Earth Day 50: ironically the most beautiful Earth Day I have so far witnessed. May it not be the last.
The Lake in Central Park.
(NYC 04 22 2020)
— rPs 04 22 2020
Postscript: Time Does Fly. Read about Earth Day 40 here: https://wildflowersofthewestvillage.com/2010/04/22/earth-day-40-on-the-fly/
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August 28, 2019 at 8:47 pm · Filed under Wildflowers: Blue, Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: White ·Tagged Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Through the Fence . . .
Asiatic Dayflower:
Commelina communis
(NYC 08 26 2019)
Property shaped by fences is a reality in the developed and redeveloping city. A fence, though, not be just used to keep some thing or some one out. A fence can aso keep things contained in a sustained, unmolested zone of wild flowering green.
Bittersweet Nightshade:
Solanum dulcamara
(NYC 08 27 2019)
A blooming even so in August, the late last of the growing season, when the sun still hangs high over the region’s annual dry season.
Canada Thistle:
Cirsium arvense
(NYC 08 27 2019)
Sun, followed by a late afternoon shower that keeps the city parks in formal, and informal, flower.
Phytolacca americana
(NYC 08 28 2019)
This time of year it is pleasant to peek through the fence if on the other side there are wildflowers.
— rPs 08 28 2019
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July 31, 2019 at 5:02 pm · Filed under Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: Purple ·Tagged heatwave, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Thistle, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
High Celsius Circium . . .
Thistle: genus Cirsium
(NYC 07 2019
July has baked in an actual sense. Hot days, humid, sun bright and still. New York City heats.
Somewhat in the shadows, ar the base of some shade trees, both native and immigrant thistle species of human stature may be found in vigorus bloom on the green West Side of Manhattan.
High Celcius Circium . . .
— rPs 07 31 2019
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June 16, 2019 at 2:34 pm · Filed under Wildflower Books, Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Blue, Wildflowers: Pink, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: Red, Wildflowers: White, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Bloomsday, James Joyce, Manhattan, New York City Wildflowers, Red Clover, Ulysses, West Village, Wildflowers
Bloomsday 2019 . . .
Trifolium pratense
Bloomsday on a Father’s Day Sunday, 2019 celebrates quite a packed, stacked, and weighty day for the wildflowers situated in sutu within a peak perlod of . . . bloom:
Chicorium
Chicory
(NYC 06 2019)
Malva
Mallow
(NYC 06 2019)
Brassica
Wild Mustard
(NYC 06 2019)
Solanum
Bittersweet Nightshade
(NYC 06 2019)
Circium
Canada Thistle
(NYC 06 2019)
ReJoyce and Enjoy!
(NYC 06 16 2019)
— rPs 06 16 2019
Postscript: Read WWV’s original Joycean odyssey 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
Taraxicum 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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March 20, 2018 at 1:03 pm · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Orange, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: White, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Common Snowdrop, Crocus vernus, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Spring, Vernal Equinox, Wildflowers
Vernal Equinox 2018 . . .
Snowdrops on the First Day of Spring
(NYC 03 20 2018)
Spring began at 12:15 p.m. EST in New York City.
Kind it was one of the most important astronomical alignments of the year coincided with the noon lunch hour. A quick stroll along the west side of Manhattan found the sun shy behind an overcast white sky above the steel gray flow of the Hudson. I found the season’s pastel color above the softening browns of the ground: white common snowdrop and the purples and golds of feral Crocus vernus.
Crocus vernus
(NYC 03 20 2018)
Happy first day of Spring.
— rPs 03 20 2018
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September 25, 2017 at 1:16 pm · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Orange, Wildflowers: Purple ·Tagged Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Complements (In Autumn) . . .
Inpatiens capensis
(09 2017)
September, mostly sunny, suddenly warmer, humidity hung to the air. All the plants of the city respire as we do, perhaps a bit labored.
Stressed with the start of another brief, eternal fall season, fast in the city, so much possibilty, very busy, and outside of all that, around the outdoor spaces, still in bloom.
Funny to find on an evening walk two of the most attractive signatures of the season, the impatient yet deep orange jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) and the stout yet laced purple mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum). Colors, partnered together in time, complements on the color wheel of the annual solar cycle.
The kinetic jewelweed can cover its loose bush in orange blooms all primed to pop when disturbed.
The artful mistflower, of a blued purple most pale, posseses a triangular leaf patterned and haired, tailored and well groomed.
Conoclinium coelestinum
(09 2017)
The color of the jewelweed like nectarine, mistflower like lavender. Such gorgeous pairings can be seen untended and free beside some New York City trailways now, after the Autumn Equinox.
– rPs 09 25 2017
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April 22, 2017 at 8:41 pm · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Green, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: Yellow ·Tagged Earth Day, Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
Earth Day 2017 . . .
Trout Lily, Erythronium americanum
(04 2017)
Happy Earth Day 2017 from Wildflowers of the West Village . . .
Skunk Cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus
(04 2017)
— rPs 04 22 2017
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May 18, 2016 at 3:50 pm · Filed under Wildflower Related, Wildflowers: Purple, Wildflowers: White ·Tagged Manhattan, New York City, New York City Wildflowers, NYC Wildflower Week, Upper West Side, West Village, Wildflowers
May Showers, May Flowers . . .
A Well-Untended West Side Berm (NYC 05 2016)
The annual NYC Wildflower Week filled the Five Boroughs with wild plant awareness, again celebrating native New York City flora, between May 8 and 15 this year.
Further exploration of the green spaces at the speed of exercise accompanied several days of dark sky and sprinkled rain. The cool water and ameliorated sunlight has invigorated everything that grows green in New York City. What follows has emerged as days bright and clear, brisk, borne on steady breeze. The dappled shade of the Sweetgum, Black Oak, London Plane, or Ginkgo reveals many native and immigrant inhabitants in flush growth.
Burdock, (Arctium lappa)
Garlic Mustard, (Alliaria petiolatra)
Grass Lily (Ornithogalum umbellatum)
Shepherd’s Purse, (Capsella bursa-pastoris) 
One can encounter at ease many such plants sprouted to the size of a shrub. That advertises healthy vigor, acceptable conditions, and lenient grounds-keeping.
NYC Wildflower Week, and beyond; Wildflowers of the West Village, and beyond: here, along the trailed, trailing green edge of Manhattan. Proof may be witnessed on any average, well-untended New York City berm.
– rPs 05 18 2016
Postscript: The website of the NYC Wildflower Week may be browsed any time of year with a click of the link available to the right under the Blogroll.
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Wildflowers of the West Village 