Just when I thought my invasive species illness from the lesser celandine couldn't get any worse, I read
this post from the
"The-Grizzled-But-Still-Incorrigible-Scribe-Himself". This plant is going to cover every floodplain in Ohio sooner than later.
Tom
Tom…Man, you're gonna have to learn to get along with your new neighbor. Like it or not, lesser celandine is probably here to stay. At least it isn't kudzu or honeysuckle, in that a month from now it will have disappeared until next spring. I'm not encouraging anyone to transplant it to their back yard—merely taking its photo and making a subjective opinion that the flowers are pretty. Do I wish it would go away? Oh, yes. Does lesser celandine care what I think? Nope. It has found a home it likes and settled in for the long haul. And by the way—I spent much of today walking a woodland a half-mile or more from the nearest river, and up a fairly good hill for southwestern Ohio. Not at all floodplain habitat Lesser celandine and Virginia bluebells were both intermixed and in large single-species patches—plus there were a few celandine poppies (wood poppy) scattered about. So if you're going to continue worrying, you're probably going to have to expand your range…
ReplyDeleteTom, I tagged you for a blog game that is going around. Visit my latest post to get the details. I hope you participate. It involves highlighting one of your photographs.
ReplyDeleteLesser celandine already HAS covered most of the floodplains (and yes, Grizz, some of the uplands) in the Mid-Atlantic! Welcome to the club, though of course, it's not very exclusive.
ReplyDeleteI live in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and have just discovered this all over my yard. It's taking over my flower beds and my ground cover. We just bought the house last summer, so we didn't even know it was in our yard. It's going to have to go. We will try to kill it next spring, even if we have to kill everything else in our yard to do it.
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