July is a wonderful time to take a walk and glory in the outbursting of flowering plants. Do you recognize the flower pictured above? It's bloodroot, a member of the plant group called spring ephemerals (e.g., trillium, blue cohosh, hepatica, trout lily), which as the name implies, finished flowering over a month ago. Join Cathy Keddy, naturalist and ecologist, for a Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust (MMLT) wildflower walk where we may see these plants, but now they will be in fruit.
Discover Wildflowers is the 3rd event in MMLT's “Discover the Wild” series - Sunday, July 14th, at the Poole Family Nature Sanctuary, 10am to 12pm. The Poole Family Nature Sanctuary is mostly forested (sugar maple and hemlock forests), it has some swamps and marshes that are part of the Scotch Corners Provincially Significant Wetland Complex, and it has tremendous habitat diversity for a 110 ac. property; it typifies much of the landscape of Lanark County.
In July the flowering plants are at their peak and as you walk the trail with Cathy you will see and learn much about the botanical world at your feet. Among the many things to experience this time of year are wetland/aquatic plants like: joe-pye-weed, boneset, beggarticks, cattails, water lilies, arrowhead, pickerelweed (beautiful stalks of purple flowers).
Bring your camera and take a Sunday walk with the wildflowers.
Our Thanks to SCOTIABANK Carleton Place for Sponsoring this event!
Register today! Call 613- 253-2722 or email cpiche@mmlt.ca Admission Fee: $15 for Adults $10 for MMLT members Free to children under 12
Onsite Registration begins at 9:45
Directions: Approximately 8 km west of Carleton Place on Highway #7, turn south on Scotch Corners Rd. and travel 5.2 km. Turn right on the 11th Line Beckwith which soon becomes Drummond Con. 11 and travel 1.3 km. The trailhead is opposite #317. Please park on the Sanctuary side of the road
