Broad Brook Coalition has a new publication. Please enjoy and use the Layman’s Guide to Summer Wildflowers at Fitzgerald Lake by Bob Zimmermann.

From the introduction:

Over the past several years, I’ve become ever more intrigued by the
succession of wildflowers that appear in the spring, summer and even fall. The Fitzgerald Lake Conservation Area affords an abundance of these wonderful plants and I started taking my camera along on hikes to try to capture their fleeting beauty. This in turn inspired me to share my photos with others in a context that relates some basic information about the flowers, their growth, their habitat and their reproduction. I’ve become particularly interested in the folklore associated with these plants and their use for food or medicinal purposes. I hope that this brief guide will help you to identify a sampling of the many summer wildflowers, along with a few shrubs, that grow along the paths and in the woods and pastures of the FLCA. I confess that they are my favorites and the ones I look for every year; I realize that my coverage is patchy and that there are many others that merit inclusion. Furthermore, all are native to New England except Queen Anne’s Lace and Common St. John’s-wort which are European imports. The photos were taken by me at the FLCA or on abutting land, but all can be found within the FLCA. The present collection of flower descriptions follows a similar guide to spring wildflowers that I compiled last year. Common, family, genus and specific names follow those in Go Botany web site (see Sources). I am greatly indebted to Connie Parks for looking over preliminary versions of this guide and for offering numerous suggestions and corrections; while errors may persist, they are mine.

Bob Zimmermann, July 2018

The Layman’s Guide to Summer Wildflowers at Fitzgerald Lake (PDF)