northeast naturalist

  Sun shines through beech leaves in a hemlock-hardwood climax forest near  Big Pond, PA, on July 3rd. (Climax forests are the peak of plant...

  Song Sparrow atop a bayberry bush with summer leaves, June 26th,  Assateague Island National Seashore, MD Northern Bayberry ( Morella pe...

  Trees Swallows ( Tachycineta bicolor ) descend on Northern Bayberry bushes  ( Morella pensylvanica ) to feast on the gray, waxy berries ...

  Round-leaved Sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ), single leaf  Zurich Bog, Wayne County, NY, June 17th (© Dave Spier) Round-leaved Sundew ( D...

Water Avens ( Geum rivale ), nodding flowers at Zurich Bog, Wayne County, NY, May 30th (© Dave Spier) Water Avens ( Geum rivale ), a.k.a. ...

Poison Sumac ( Toxicodendron vernix ) leaves and flowers at one of the Junius Ponds, natural post-glacial kettle lakes ringed by boggy wetl...

  Indian Cucumber-root ( Medeola virginiana ), in the Lily family, is an eastern species, growing primarily up through the Appalachians, th...