Milkcaps
Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, your weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. Last week we explored the Russula group (aka...
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katemacquarrie22
7 days ago2 min
Russula
Welcome back to Mushroom Monday, your weekly look at some of PEI’s easy-to-identify fungi. Today it’s not one species, but a group: the...
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katemacquarrie22
Sep 183 min
Gingko
Humans think in decades, forests operate in centuries, but the land’s timeframe spans hundreds of millions of years. We can read...
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katemacquarrie22
Sep 112 min
Wild Raisin
Fall and fresh food go hand in hand. PEI’s backyard gardens are full of vegetables, our farm fields are ready for harvest, and wild fruit...
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katemacquarrie22
Sep 42 min
Beechdrops
Of PEI’s roughly 1,500 species of plants, only seven – less than one half of one percent – have no chlorophyll and can’t make food from...
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katemacquarrie22
Aug 252 min
Sea Lavender
PEI’s salt marshes are among our most under-appreciated habitats: they’re wet, smelly, buggy, and have few showy,...
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katemacquarrie22
Aug 182 min
Swamp Dodder
The beautiful shades of green in PEI’s landscape are thanks to the 99.5% of our plants that photosynthesize – they make their own food...
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katemacquarrie22
Aug 112 min
Soapwort
No soap? No problem! This PEI plant has you covered. Meet Soapwort (aka Bouncing Bet, Saponaria officinalis ). I learn new things about...
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katemacquarrie22
Jul 242 min
Pinesap
Every group has its oddballs and plants are no exception. Most are content to follow the crowd and make food from sunlight, but a few...
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katemacquarrie22
Jul 172 min
Beach Wormwood
If you’ve been enjoying PEI’s famous beaches during this hot weather, you may have noticed a distinctive silvery-green plant standing out...
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katemacquarrie22
Jul 102 min
Fern Leaf Rollers
Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist: your own personal “Google” for information on all things natural on PEI. I’ve been getting quite a few...
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katemacquarrie22
Jul 32 min
Sea Milkwort
Fields and forests may come to mind when you think about PEI’s wildflowers, but our coastlines have beautiful flowering plants you may...
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katemacquarrie22
Jun 303 min
Black Locust
There’s a line in E.B. White’s book Stuart Little that I love “…orchards so old they have forgotten where the farmhouse is”. I often...
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katemacquarrie22
Jun 192 min
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
This month we’re looking at some of PEI’s native wildflowers. So far, we’ve seen showy (Trilliums and Cherries), subtle (Blue-eyed...
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katemacquarrie22
Jun 162 min
Bunchberry
This month, I’m highlighting some of PEI’s native wildflowers: showy, subtle, strange and – today’s example – sneaky! This is Bunchberry...
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katemacquarrie22
Jun 122 min
Chokecherries
PEI’s flowering trees and shrubs are putting on a spectacular display this year. Right now, members of the Rose Family – Apples,...
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katemacquarrie22
Jun 52 min
Trilliums
June is peak wildflower season on PEI. Over the next month, I’ll show you some of my favourites ranging from showy to subtle to...
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katemacquarrie22
May 123 min
Spring Ephemerals
This time of year, PEI’s landscape can look a little drab. It may seem like planted Magnolias, Daffodils, and Tulips are the only showy...
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katemacquarrie22
May 52 min
Mullein
If you’ve walked PEI’s roadsides, coastline, or the Confederation Trail lately, you may have spotted rosettes of fuzzy grey-green leaves...
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katemacquarrie22
May 13 min
Woodpecker Sign
Winter is the best time for finding wildlife tracks and sign, but before leaf-out in spring is second on my list. Being able to see...
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