The Big River Management Area occupies 8600 acres (13.4 square miles) in the towns of West Greenwich, Coventry, East Greenwich, and Exeter in the State of Rhode Island…
The famous historical naturalist, Charles Darwin described carnivorous plants as “The most wonderful plants in the world”…
William W. Bailey, a 19th century Brown University botanist, described Rhode Island ferns as bewitching plants of very various habitats…
There are forty species of orchids which grow in the wild in Rhode Island. All are natives except for Epipactis helleborine…
Violets are either acaulescent (having no stem) with leaves and peduncles arising from the rhizomes or caulescent (having a stem) bearing flowers and leaves on the same stem…
Often times it’s a flower that’s the wrong color or has too many petals. Sometimes it’s an odd growth habit. Either way, it’s unique…
Formerly known as fern allies, Horsetails, Club-mosses, Fir-mosses, Spike-mosses and Quillworts are plants that have an alternate generation…
Botanical Links
Links to other sites about wildflowers:
Fall Wildflowers of New England
Delaware Wildflowers–Photographs of 821 species by David G. Smith
Connecticut Botanical Society: photo gallery
Weeds Gone Wild: National Park Service site about invasives
US Forest service: Celebrating Wildflowers Coloring pages
Brooklyn Botanical Native Flora Garden
Wildflowers of the Eastern Woodlands . Lady Bird Johnson Wild Flower Center
For those of you who are techies:
Utah State University: Tools for Plant Identification: Grass Keys/
Grasses of RI filtered for RI and graminoids
USDA Plant Fact Sheets and Plant Guides
Tom Stuart’s Hardy Fern Library
Don Lubin’s site for New England Ferns
Silvics of North America A two-volume set from the USDA Forest Service – these documents provide information about the biology of tree species growing in forest lands of the United States.
Salicicola is a wonderful website based in Massachusetts and with an extensive photo collection.
And some local wild plant and environmental organizations:
Special Thanks To:
