RHH's photos with the keyword: dowagiac woods

This is Collinsia verna, Blue-eyed Mary, photographed in Dowagiac Woods in southern Michigan.

Not sure of the ID on these but they seem to fit the description of Marsh Violets, Viola cuculata. They were photographed in Dowagiac Woods in Cass County, Michigan.

This is Wild Blue Phlox, Phlox divaricata, photographed in Dowagiac Woods in Cass County, Michigan.

The Large-flowered Trillium is one of the earliest wildflowers to bloom in Michigan. We photographed them in several place, this in Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary where they carpeted the ground (see insets).

These are Large-flowered Trilliums at Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in southern Michigan. They grew there by the thousands in a mixed hardwood forest.

These Trillium grandiflorum were photographed at Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in southern Michigan. They carpeted the ground in the wetter area of the sanctuary, often growing with Skunk Cabbage.

On our way home and as we left Michigan we visited Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in Cass County, Michigan. This is the description of the place on the website of the Michigan Nature Association: "Dowagiac Woods is the second largest MNA sanctuary in the Lower Peninsula. The name, pronounced “doe-WAH-jack”, originates from a Pottawatomi Indian word meaning a place where one could obtain all his food, clothing, and shelter. Minimally disturbed since its government patent in 1836, Dowagiac Woods remains true to its name and is regarded as a high quality example of southern mesic forest. Because the majority of the property has never been plowed or clear-cut, the forests serve as a living museum of how Michigan forests looked prior to settlement. The larger size of the property is essential in maintaining the diversity of plant and animal life found here. A mixed matrix of floodplain, southern-mesic forest, and hardwood swamp allows for nearly 50 species of nesting birds and several of reptiles, such as the black rat snake." Another site mentions 400 species of plants and 45 different trees. In these photos the plants are mainly Skunk Cabbage and Trilliums.

On our way home and as we left Michigan we visited Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in Cass County, Michigan. This is the description of the place on the website of the Michigan Nature Association: "Dowagiac Woods the second largest MNA sanctuary in the Lower Peninsula. The name, pronounced “doe-WAH-jack”, originates from a Pottawatomi Indian word meaning a place where one could obtain all his food, clothing, and shelter. Minimally disturbed since its government patent in 1836, Dowagiac Woods remains true to its name and is regarded as a high quality example of southern mesic forest. Because the majority of the property has never been plowed or clear-cut, the forests serve as a living museum of how Michigan forests looked prior to settlement. The larger size of the property is essential in maintaining the diversity of plant and animal life found here. A mixed matrix of floodplain, southern-mesic forest, and hardwood swamp allows for nearly 50 species of nesting birds and several of reptiles, such as the black rat snake." Another site mentions 400 species of plants and 45 different trees. In these photos the plants are mainly Skunk Cabbage and Trilliums.

On our way home and as we left Michigan we visited Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in Cass County, Michigan. This is the description of the place on the website of the Michigan Nature Association: "Dowagiac Woods the second largest MNA sanctuary in the Lower Peninsula. The name, pronounced “doe-WAH-jack”, originates from a Pottawatomi Indian word meaning a place where one could obtain all his food, clothing, and shelter. Minimally disturbed since its government patent in 1836, Dowagiac Woods remains true to its name and is regarded as a high quality example of southern mesic forest. Because the majority of the property has never been plowed or clear-cut, the forests serve as a living museum of how Michigan forests looked prior to settlement. The larger size of the property is essential in maintaining the diversity of plant and animal life found here. A mixed matrix of floodplain, southern-mesic forest, and hardwood swamp allows for nearly 50 species of nesting birds and several of reptiles, such as the black rat snake." Another site mentions 400 species of plants and 45 different trees. In these photos the plants are mainly Skunk Cabbage and Trilliums.

On our way home and as we left Michigan we visited Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in Cass County, Michigan. This is the description of the place on the website of the Michigan Nature Association: "Dowagiac Woods the second largest MNA sanctuary in the Lower Peninsula. The name, pronounced “doe-WAH-jack”, originates from a Pottawatomi Indian word meaning a place where one could obtain all his food, clothing, and shelter. Minimally disturbed since its government patent in 1836, Dowagiac Woods remains true to its name and is regarded as a high quality example of southern mesic forest. Because the majority of the property has never been plowed or clear-cut, the forests serve as a living museum of how Michigan forests looked prior to settlement. The larger size of the property is essential in maintaining the diversity of plant and animal life found here. A mixed matrix of floodplain, southern-mesic forest, and hardwood swamp allows for nearly 50 species of nesting birds and several of reptiles, such as the black rat snake." Another site mentions 400 species of plants and 45 different trees. In these photos the plants are mainly Skunk Cabbage and Trilliums.

I believe (thanks to J. Gafarot) that this is Polyporus squamosus or Dryad's Saddle, a Bracket Fungus. It was photographed in Dowagiac Woods in Michigan and is an example here of guttation, mushrooms and plants producing beads of "sweat". Dowagiac Woods is in southern Michigan and an area where some of the original forest has been preserved.

This is an example of guttation in fungi and other plants, the exudation of drops of "sweat", a process by which a plant rids itself of excess moisture. The mushroom is Polyporus squamosus or Dryad's Saddle.

I believe that this is a fungus called Dryad's Saddle (Polyporus squamosus). It is exhibiting a strange phenomenon called guttation, the exudation of drops of moisture.

This, if I am not mistaken, is a fungus known as Dryad's Saddle, Polyporus squamosus. It is exhibiting a phenomenon known as guttation, the exudation of drops of moisture.

Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary is in southeastern Michigan and is supposed to be one of the few places left that preserve an area which shows what Michigan was like when still untouched by settlers. We were there with our oldest daughter who lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and whom we later dropped off at O'Hare Airport. We were all on our different ways home when we visited there for a few hours.

I am not sure what tree this new growth belong to but thought it very beautiful with its silky hairs and graceful curve. It was photographed in Dowagiac Woods in southeastern Michigan, a nature sanctuary we visited at the beginning of our trip home from Michigan.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit was one of the botanical treasures we found at Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in southeastern Michigan. We had found it in another park further north but were delighted to find it again. We were at Dowagiac Woods with our oldest daughter at the beginning of our long trip home to Washington.

We found this small unidentified sedge at Dowagiac Woods Nature Sanctuary in southeastern Michigan while hiking there with our oldest daughter.