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Looking east from Round Cove Road, Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg Maine to Burnt Coat Island Island with wild mustard in the foreground, May
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Looking east from Round Cove Road, Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg Maine to Burnt Coat Island Island with wild mustard in the foreground, May

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  • Looking east from Round Cove Road, Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg Maine to Burnt Coat Island Island with wild mustard in the foreground, May
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  • Polygala paucifolia, known as Gaywings or Fringed polygala is also called Milkwort, Snakeroot. My mother always called it Birdy On the Wing. I think that might have been her own name for it or a very local nickname. This Maine wildflower is a spring ephemeral, dissappearing by the time the trees leaf out. It growns in dappled shade in lean soil. It has been used medicinally and was thought to improve the milk production of cows that at it. There are over 60 different species of Polygala in the United States. Most of the occur in the southeast. This is the one we see in Maine. Photographed in May, Phippsburg, Maine. It's tiny: only three inches tall and the flower is about 1 1/2 inch across. I had to lie on the ground for these photos taken with a macro lens. For a distribution map and more info on this wildflower, visit <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/polygala_paucifolia.shtml">http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/polygala_paucifolia.shtml</a>
  • Looking east from Round Cove Road, Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg Maine to Burnt Coat Island Island with wild mustard in the foreground, May. A common field weed, Field Mustard is the origin of many cultivars including canola, turnip and bok choy. Mostly a weedy species of waste places and disturbed sites around human activities, it is likely far more common and widespread than herbarium records indicate. There are many mustard species with small yellow flowers—they can be hard to distinguish just from the flowers. Field Mustard is most easily identified by the large rounded basal leaves and smaller clasping stem leaves. Of European origin, it has naturalized throughout the United States.
  • Looking east from Round Cove Road, Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg Maine to Burnt Coat Island Island with wild mustard in the foreground, May
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  • Seawall Beach, Phippsburg Maine, sunset looking east, Mid August
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  • Seawall Beach, Phippsburg Maine at sunset with the Herons ledges, also known as The Three Sisters
  • Malaga Island, Phippsburg, Maine Sebasco Estates. This is a beach made up of crushed shells, mostly from clams and quahog shells. The impoverished people who lived on this island ate shellfish to survive. They used the shells as levelling agent for the floors of the buildings they lived in. For more on Malaga Island, see <a href="http://www.mcht.org/preserves/malaga-island.shtml">http://www.mcht.org/preserves/malaga-island.shtml</a>
  • Spruce tree forest on Malaga Island, Phippsburg, Maine Sebasco Estates
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