Used for a long list of medicinal purposes… Native to Europe, Western Asia and northwest Africa. Bean family.
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) (pratense is Latin for “found in meadows.”)
Red Clover
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Category Archives: Centennial Park, Wellesley MA
White Clover
Burning Bush
There are lots of these at Centennial. In autumn, the leaves turn a ghostly pale pink in the shade. It’s an invasive and “its importation and sale is prohibited in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.” That must be a recent development, since they’re everywhere. Native to eastern Asia.
Anticipation
Something to keep an eye on at Centennial…
Wild Geranium
Celandine
Japanese Silverberry
This is a large shrub native to eastern Asia, considered an invasive species here. The leaves are silvery in spring, but turn greener throughout the summer. The flowers are lightly fragrant. They’ll have red fruit that is edible (works well as a dried fruit) and has loads more antioxidant lycopene than tomatoes!
Japanese silverberry, Autumn-olive, Spreading oleaster (Elaeagnus umbellata)
Pussytoes
Later these blossoms open up, but at this stage they really look like the toes of a little white cat. I cannot find any information on why it’s also called Woman’s Tobacco. More on this later. Native.
Plantain-leaf Pussytoes, Woman’s Tobacco (Antennaria plantaginifolia)
Silver bell
Alert Flowerophile Donna is really on the ball here, spotting a bunch of these little trees at Centennial. They are full of these big white blossoms and I can’t believe I never noticed them in previous years. These are native to the U.S., but primarily occur in more southern regions (like South Carolina to Texas), so I don’t know if these might have wandered out from someone’s yard? They’re very striking.
Silver bell, Snowdrop tree (Halesia diptera)
