Hastie WalkAbout

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Thank you to all who attended the tree identification Ijams WalkAbout at William Hastie Natural Area in South Knoxville last Saturday.

And special thanks to Lynne Davis for leading the walk and her husband Bob for helping pull together the inventory of trees.

The tree list for William Hastie is a work in progress. To see what's been IDed so far go to: tree list.



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walkabout: William Hastie

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Round-lobed hepatica

Mountain stonecrop

Special thanks to the 34 people who attended the wildflower Ijams Walk•About at William Hastie Natural Area in South Knoxville last Saturday afternoon. Lynne and Bob Davis did a wonderful job leading the two-hour stroll along a meandering trail botanizing as we went

In addition to the more readily abundant and widely known wild phlox, foamflower, yellow trillium, mayapple, crossvine, Solomon's seal and wild geranium that were present, some of the less well known and curious wildflowers Lynne and Bob found (and not all were in bloom) were Cumberland spurge, kidney-leaf buttercup, Southern chervil, crane-fly orchid, round-lobed hepatica, sweet cicely, little brown jug, Carolina cranesbill, violet wood sorrel, mountain stonecrop and rattlesnake plantain.

For Bob's complete list go to William Hastie Wildflowers.



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Walk•About: William Hastie

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Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Botanizing was a popular hobby in the mid-1800s. Henry David Thoreau did it as did thousands others. And with over 1,000 flowering plants in Tennessee, there's a lot out there to find in our state alone.

This Saturday, April 23, join me and guest wildflower aficionados Lynne and Bob Davis for an afternoon wildflower search at William Hastie Natural Area in South Knoxville near Ijams.

Free to Ijams members. $5 for non-members. Call 577-4717, ext. 10 to register.

Great fun!

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