Northwest corridor leading to the bog area at Aberdeen lake park
What a beautiful cool and dry morning it was at Aberdeen lake park today. I took a short ride over to the park and did a lot of walking in and around the northwest corridor area. The water in the bog area was a bit lower than usual. I picked up 2 news species here. I've been to this area at least 1⁄2 a dozen times, and I always expect to see a snake but never have. I cannot understand it, perfect area for snakes. Maybe I'm just too damn loud!
I don't think anybody knows about this part of the park, because I've never seen anybody back here before. Sometimes the water department brings their truck back near the area for maintenance, but they don't go near the areas that I'm in and I've never seen a soul back there. Kind of nice, don't find places like that very often anymore. 
Fruit from Goldenclub, Orontium aquaticum
I collected the seeds today, which I'm going to propagate along side of the green arrow arums that I'm growing from the seeds I collected last summer. Sedumzz also suggested I collect some bladderwort, so I'm gonna try and do that as well. Maybe by the time I've finished collecting some plants and seeds, I'll have a nice water garden of my own.
Helmeted Skullcap, Scutellaria integrifolia
Clasping Milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis)
Last summer I found this plant growing right in the middle of a service road. I watched it for about a month. Then I came back 1 day and I saw that a tractor had mowed the service road. No more milkweed! But today, I found it again, and I also found some on the edge of the road. I'm going watch it again, and this time I'm going get it in it's flowering stage. It's only a quest of a year plus so far.
Prairie Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus)
Arrowleaf Tearthumb (Polygonum sagittatum)
Humped Bladderwort (Utricularia gibba)
Goldenclub, Orontium aquaticum
Orange milkwort, Polygala lutea
Cinnamon Fern, Osmunda cinnomonea
Until my next trip,
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