Gray Beardtongue – Penstemon canescens
Green Pitcher Plant, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database. Scientific name is Sarracenia oreophila.
Green Pitcher Plant – Sarracenia oreophila
Puttyroot, a native orchid species, has been added to the USWildflowers database. Scientific name is Aplectrum hyemale. This plant also goes by the common name Adam and Eve.
Puttyroot (Orchid) – Aplectrum hyemale
Perfoliate Bellwort, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database. Scientific name is Uvularia perfoliata. This plant also goes by the common name Merry Bells.
Perfoliate Bellwort - Uvularia perfoliata
Wild Comfrey, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database. Scientific name is Cynoglossum virginianum. The genus to which this plant belongs is known by the common name Hound’s Tongue.
Wild Comfrey – Cynoglossum virginianum
Dwarf Larkspur, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database. Scientific name is Delphinium tricorne. This plant also goes by the common name Spring Larkspur.
Dwarf Larkspur – Delphinium tricorne
Prester John, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database. Scientific name is Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum, a subspecies of Arisaema triphyllum. This plant also goes by the common name Jack in the Pulpit, but this is a distinct separate subspecies from Arisaema triphyllum ssp. triphyllum, the plant we usually see and call “Jack in the Pulpit.”
Update 04/13/2016: Based on Weakley’s Flora, I have changed this to Arisaema quinatum.
Prester John – Arisaema triphyllum ssp. quinatum
For the first time ever USWildflowers.com has an Alexa ranking (FWIW) in the top million websites. While thinking “Wow, 983,000 websites are more popular” is certainly one way to think about it, but considering that there are supposedly between 200 million and 300 million websites out there, a ranking in the top million is a pretty good ranking.
Also through yesterday, the 12-month total hits on the website has exceeded 1 million. Hits are not really a good measure of website traffic, because a single page may have many, many hits involved (each thumbnail on a page causes a “hit.”) However, I still consider it to be a milestone, and it came much more quickly than I expected. April has been a pretty amazing month – I thought March was big, having 3 times the number of hits as the highest previous month, but April now has more than doubled March’s hit count, and if the daily average carries through the end of the month, there could be a half-million hits this month alone.
Now, if only that translated into advertising revenue. But the wildflower hobby and publishing this website have been rewarding in many other ways…
Goldenseal, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers.com database (04/19/2010). Scientific name is Hydrastis canadensis.
Goldenseal – Hydrastis canadensis
Sweet Betsy, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers.com database. Scientific name is Trillium cuneatum. This plant also goes by the common name Small Sweet Betsy and Toadshade Trillium.
Sweet Betsy – Trillium cuneatum