Plants on Kilometre One of the Bruce Trail: March 2022

The Bruce Trail is 890 kilometres in length. At the rate in which I explore nature while walking, it would take me 890 days to complete the whole thing.

Here is some of what I saw on kilometer 1 at Queenston Heights.

Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus dioicus) pods

Norway Spruce cones (Picea abies)

Red Oak (Quercus rubra) acorns

Hop-hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) fruits

moss

Red Oak leaves

Hop-hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana) fruit

Polypores on Black Cherry

White Oak leaf

Hop-hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana)

Basswood (Tilia americana)

Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)

Black Raspberry (Rubus occidentalis)

White Oak (Quercus alba)

elderly Sugar Maple looking like Shagbark Hickory

Kentucky Coffee Tree (Gymnocladus dioicus) pods

Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)

London Plane (Platanus hybrida)

Grape vine on Oak

White Pine needles (Pinus stobus)

Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra)

Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)

Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia)

Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)

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Spanning the winter’s cold gulf with an arch,
Over it, rampant, rides in the wild March. – Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–94)

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