Thursday, March 3, 2011

Phenology March 2011

3 March Thursday

Bradford Pear.. three in Homeland parking lot on Main and half a dozen on Chautauqua just starting to bloom
Lonicera bush honeysuckle in full bloom in our backyard.
Cherry one out in full white bloom
Capsella bursa-pastoris shepherd's purse several up blooming east side of tree block east of Sutton
Weeping willow first green leaves just opening branches visible green tinge all over.. trees west of Bizzell library
Silver maple in my front yard flowers have been open for a week.
Grass beginning to green along perimeter inch of campus sidewalks.
One Senecio groundsel by west end of Sutton Hall up with a dozen early young flowers.
No dandelion blooms or plants.

From OWP 27 Feb:
"Stellaria chickweed, Galium bedstraw, some Geraniaceae thing like Erodium heron's bill with dissected leaves and something like Lamium henbit.. all are just beginning ..not over an inch high. Patches of new Festuca fescue? are growing bright green and somewhat taller along the northern portion of the ragweed delta...

Elm flower buds are breaking open. Tapping the branches I released a small puff of pollen. The Lonicera honeysuckle area west of Hackberry alley is visibly greening with the earliest low leaves."

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