Well I guess you could, but I ain’t got no complaints. And it is the perfect time to explore the grasslands or whatever park you choose. My choice was the grasslands yesterday morning!
After parking the car, my first treasure was the Dayflower (Commelina erecta var angustifolia). Such a vivid blue!
The doorway to another universe! Really I wondered how the tree got this injury and still thrived. So glad that it could bounce back from whatever the cause.
My goal that morning was to find mushrooms. Afterall it is National Mushroom Month. However a lot sites talk about eating them. Don’t get me wrong I do like to eat them. But the real joy to me is enjoy their beauty in the wild!
Someone was going in circles. LOL.
Along the bank I found the ferns. Here was a Purple Cliff Brake (Pellaea atropurpurea) with mosses and thalloid liverworts. Many times banks are a good place to look for mushrooms too.
Then just a foot or so away from the fern was this really tiny thing (3-4mm) with some moss and liverwort. Indeed it had me stumped. Was it going to a new lichen or what?
At this point I figured out it was plant. The water droplets under the leaves were the source of yellowish rings on top. In fact from my initial view above I thought it looked like cups (apothecia) on a lichen.
So here was a bigger nearby example. And now I knew it was a Common Woodsia (Woodsia obtusa).
A mature example of the Common Woodsia (Woodsia obtusa)!
What fun and I had barely made it a couple hundred feet from the car. More to come tomorrow from my Sunday morning grasslands outing!
That is a true blue flower. There are very few blue flowers. Sure are lots of different mushrooms.
That cor mushroom is really cool looking – should be many coming up after all that rain
The dayflower is bluebird bird. Love the ‘shrooms too.
Dayflowers are one of my favorites. Glad you had one!