Weedon Island Field Notes – 10/6/12 – EmilyGrace Berger
Time: approx 11:00 AM
Conditions: slightly warm, breezy, sunny
Beach Sunflower (not Black Eyed Susan)
Saw Palmetto
Cabbage Palm
Fox Grape
Epiphyte – Spanish Moss
Bracken
Rattlebox – yellow flowers, pinnate leaves, thorns
Green Bryer/Wild Bamboo – varies leaf shape, some have thorns, pinnate
Slash Pine – 6-8” needles
Poison Ivy – changes to red in fall, then falls
Dog Fennel – aromatic
Cloudless Sulfur – dots, butterfly
Fiddler Crab – biggest crab claw most envied and sexually attractive
White Mangrove – terrestrial
Red Mangrove – props
Black Mangrove – pneumatophores (roots)
Buttonwood Mangrove
Mangrove crab – small, black
Salt Marsh Fleabane
Lantana
Mosquito Fish – small, eat mosquito larva
Oysters – filter bay, keep toxins in tissue, can’t eat TB oysters-too polluted, leave old shells-new
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