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Reports on Gerry Williamson's Wildflower Hobby
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Wildflower: A flowering plant that grows without cultivation.This is a journal of my discovery of wildflowers, which not only will provide my memory (since the biological memory is failing more and more,) but also can be a valuable record as to when certain wildflowers will be in bloom.
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05/27/2009 Flower of the Day: Eastern Sweetshrub
Posted on May 26th, 2009 2 comments
Eastern Sweetshrub – Calycanthus floridus – is, as the name implies, a woody shrub with a sweet-smelling late-spring blossom. The USDA Plants Database lists the plant in Missouri, Louisiana, and all states east of the Mississippi River except Indiana, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The one above was photographed along the Big Frog Trail in Polk County, TN on May 9, 2009.
The photo below was taken in Grundy County, TN on April 26, 2008.
2 responses to “05/27/2009 Flower of the Day: Eastern Sweetshrub”
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I have these growing in my yard in Derry, PA. They always suprise me when they bloom. The sweet smell reaches my front door. I enjoy them for about 1 week, and then they are gone.
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Thanks for visiting, Caryn. Are yours natural, or did you plant them? My sister-in-law in Virginia planted some she got from a nursery, but they didn’t have the sweet smell of the natural ones.
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Caryn August 7th, 2009 at 11:49