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University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum

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This is 2007 Photo Sampler, from December 31, 2006. It includes 61 photos.

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PHOTOS

2007 Photo Sampler

  • "Swallowing the Moon" photo by Isaac Nadeau of Glenn Wolff's Prairie Tapestry No. 1 sculpture on the edge of Curtis Prairie.
  • Unusually warm weather means ice out on Teal Pond where Mallards are looking for food.
  • Bee balm, _Monarda fistulosa_, with snow caps in the Cedar Glade garden on January 22.
  • Canada wild rye, _Elymus canadensis_, in the Bur Oak Savanna garden.
  • Hawthorn and bur oak sillouettes highlighted by snow.
  • Snowstorm on January 21 brings a change of scene to the Wisconsin Native Plant Gardens.
  • Phoebes returned March 12, 2007.
  • Red-winged blackbirds returned on March 9.
  • Warm late March weather brought Pasque flowers, _Anemone patens_, into early bloom in the Wisconsin Native Plant Gardens.
  • Hepatica blooming under a maple tree in the Maple Basswood Garden.  Wildflowers may be seen on Sunday walks, which leave the Visitor Center at 1 p.m.
  • Bloodroot, _Sanguinaria canadensis_, in Gallistel Woods April 2.
  • Toothwort, _Cardamine concatenata_, in Gallistel Woods.
  • Eastern comma butterfly, _Polygonia comma_, along the Icke Boardwalk.  This butterfly overwintered as an adult and is seeking sap from a newly opened bud.
  • Amelanchier species in full flower.
  • Chipping sparrows on a bur oak near Visitor Center.
  • Painted turtles at Teal Pond.
  • Rhododendrons in Longenecker Gardens.
  • Magnolia in Longenecker Gardens.
  • Flowering crabapples.
  • Lilacs.
  • Red trillium, _Trillium recurvatum_, in Gallistel woods.
  • White Trillium, _Trillium grandiflorum_, in the Wisconsin Native Plant Gardens.
  • Yellow violet, _Viola pubescens_, in Gallistel Woods.
  • False rue anemone, _Enemion biternatum_, in Gallistel Woods. The Arboretum bookstore has Andrew Hipp's book Spring Woodland Wildflowers for sale, which includes this and other species.
  • Rhododendrons in Longenecker Gardens.
  • Common whitetail dragonfly, juvenile male, in Curtis Prairie.
  • Eastern tailed-blue butterfly, _Everes comyntas_, in east Curis Prairie, is a common butterfly in open areas.  Major food plants are from the pea family.
  • Sweet Cicely, _Osmorhiza longistylus_, is found throughout Arboretum oak woodlands.
  • Virginia waterleaf, _Hydrophyllum virginianum_, in Gallistel woods.
  • Downy phlox, _phlox pilosa_, can be seen on Sunday walks with naturalists in Greene and Curtis Prairies.
  • Yellow star grass, _Hypoxis hirsuta_, is in the lily family so is not a grass but has leaves adapted to the conditions of the prairie-- intense sun and wind.
  • Cream Wild Indigo, _Baptisia bracteata_, a legume family member, in east Curtis Prairie, can also be found in Greene Prairie.  Roots of this plant can be six feet deep. For maps of trails stop in the Visitor Center or check boxes near parking lots.
  • Starry Solomon's plume, _Smilacina stellata_, can be found in east Curtis and on the Grady Tract.  Naturalist led walks will visit these areas throughout the summer.
  • Blunt-leaf milkweed, _Asclepias amplexicaulis_, growing on the west Knoll of the Grady Tract. Sunday morning tours visit this area every other week or so.
  • Wood Lily, _Lilium philadelphicum_, grows on Greene and Curtis Prairies. Walk with the naturalist Sunday mornings at 8:30 or join a nightwalk to see this and other flowers.
  • Indian tobacco, _Lobelia inflata_, on the west Grady knoll, June 8, 2007.
  • Purple milkwort, _Polygala polygama_, on the west Grady Knoll June 8.
  • These are butterfly weed and spiderwort in the mesic prairie garden.
  • Here a female monarch is laying eggs on whorled milkweed.
  • Twelve spotted skimmer.
  • Lady bird beetle larva.
  • Walks in Curtis or Greene Prairies will feature species such as blazing star and Peck's skipper.
  • Yellow and black argiope along Icke boardwalk.
  • Common Green darners laying eggs in Teal pond.
  • Meadowhawks in mating circle.
  • Female staghorn beetle on the Grady Knoll.
  • Common goldfinch eating seeds of yellow coneflower, _Ratibida pinnata_.
  • This photo is of Liatris pycnostachya with pollinators including a halictid bee.
  • White-throated sparrows.
  • Maples at peak color October 22.
  • Chicken of the Woods fungus in Gallistel woods, late September.
  • Fog bank moving across Curtis Prairie.
  • Cordgrass with Curtis Prairie background.
  • Prairie Dropseed and snow near Visitor Center.
  • The Jackson Oak with red-tailed hawk.
  • Red-tailed hawk stoop.

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