Category Archives: Plant Alert

Neat Plant Alert: Old Red Buckeye Across From Clinton School

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

What a welcome sight the red buckeye (Aesculus pavia) is in a spring season of so many colorless, wind-pollinated trees and shrubs. The common, cheerful plants grow nearly statewide, leafing out well before the spring starting gun is fired and … Continue reading →

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Neat Plant Alert: Yellow Trout-Lilies at Bell Slough

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Arkansas Native Plant Society (ANPS) loves to get pictures from our members to post.  Please keep sending them in! This beautiful stand of yellow trout-lilies (Erythronium rostratum) is blooming right now at Bell Slough near Mayflower. Yellow trout-lilies grow in … Continue reading →

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Neat Plant Alert: Early to Bloom Plum Ripens in May

Posted on March 27, 2013 by

Chickasaw plum, Prunus angustifolia, is Arkansas’ most common thicket-forming plum and the earliest to bloom. Thickets at Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge, from two to about fifteen feet in height, were so impressively massive, they seemed to monopolize acres of ground. … Continue reading →

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