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Bloom Clock Keys for New Hampshire, All flowers in April

Acer rubrum

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Profile for Acer rubrum (Red Maple)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	Large tree
Flowers:	Red flowers opening well before the leaves
Foliage:	As with all maples, they are deciduous and arranged oppositely on the twig. They are typically 5-10 cm (2-4 inches) long and wide with 3-5 palmate lobes with a serrated margin. The sinuses are typically narrow, but the leaves can exhibit considerable variation.
Stem:	In dense forests, trunk will remain free of branches until some distance up the tree. Individuals grown in the open are shorter and thicker with a more rounded crown.
Growing Conditions:	It can be found growing in swamps, on poor dry soils, and most anywhere in between
Fruit:	Samara
Similar Plants:	Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple)

Recent Logs

Jomegat 00:24, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring

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Acer saccharinum

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Profile for Acer saccharinum (Silver Maple)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	Large tree

Recent Logs

Jomegat 02:11, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring

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Acer saccharum

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Profile for Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	Large tree

Recent Logs

Jomegat 00:24, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring

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Betula

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Profile for Betula (Birch)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	Medium-sized tree
Flowers:	catkins
Foliage:	The simple leaves may be toothed or lobed
Stem:	Woody trunk, bark peels off in horizontal strips
Fruit:	Samara
Life Cycle:	perennial

Recent Logs

--Anna reg 17 April 2010 (Photo)
--Anna reg 21:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
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Corylus cornuta

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Profile for Corylus cornuta (Beaked hazel)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	Shrub
Flowers:	Male catkins, female styles
Foliage:	Rounded oval, coarsely double-toothed, 5-11 cm long and 3 - 8 cm broad, with hairy undersides.
Stem:	Woody trunk can reach 4 - 8 m tall with stems 10 - 25 cm thick with smooth gray bark.
Growing Conditions:	Dry woodlands and forest edges
Fruit:	Nut encapsulated in a husk with a tubular extension 2 - 4 cm long that resembles a beak.

Recent Logs

--Jomegat 16:52, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
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Crocus

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Profile for Crocus (Crocus)

Identifying Characteristics
Subclass plants:	Crocus tommasinianus Crocus vernus

Recent Logs

--Anna reg 18:43, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
--Jomegat 15:54, 16 March 2010 (UTC) (first bloom of 2010)

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Epigaea repens

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Profile for Epigaea repens (Trailing Arbutus, Mayflower)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	creeping shrub
Flowers:	The species flowers are pink, fading to nearly white, about 1/2 in. across when expanded, few or many in clusters at ends of branches. Calyx of 5 dry overlapping sepals; corolla salver-shaped, the slender, hairy tube spreading into 5 equal lobes; 10 stamens; 1 pistil with a column-like style and a 5-lobed stigma.
Foliage:	Alternate, oval, rounded at the base, smooth above, more or less hairy below, evergreen, weather-worn, on short, rusty, hairy petioles. Somewhat leathery.
Stem:	Spreading over the ground (Epigaea = on the earth); woody, the leafy twigs covered with rusty hairs.
Scent:	Very fragrant
Growing Conditions:	Prefers moist, acidic (hummus) soil, and shade.
Life Cycle:	perennial

Recent Logs

Jomegat 23:07, 16 April 2009 (UTC) (first bloom at my house this season).
Jomegat 02:08, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Jomegat 22:30, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
Jomegat 23:00, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
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Forsythia x intermedia

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Profile for Forsythia x intermedia (Garden Forsythia)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	suckering shrub
Flowers:	4-petaled, yellow
Foliage:	Simple, opposite, serrate margins, emerging about 1/2-way through full bloom
Stem:	hollow pith

Recent Logs

--Jomegat 01:16, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
--SB_Johnny ^talk 18:26, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
--Anna reg 12:01, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
--Anna reg 15:15, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
--Anna reg 08:01, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Winter, Mid Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring

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Narcissus

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Profile for Narcissus (Daffodil, Jonquil, Narcissus)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	Upright herbaceous plants
Foliage:	Basal, straplike, slightly bluish
Subclass plants:	Narcissus pseudonarcissus

Recent Logs

Anna reg 12:05, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
Sb f 14:46, 6 March 2011 (UTC) (plants blooming in the microclimate by the springhouse, elsewhere not flowering)
Anna reg 18:35, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring

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Narcissus pseudonarcissus

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Profile for Narcissus pseudonarcissus (Daffodil)

Identifying Characteristics
Higher taxa:	Narcissus

Recent Logs

Ngravagna 07:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
Anna reg 11:36, 12 April 2010 (UTC)

Archived Logs

--Cormaggio ^talk 21:26, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Ngravagna 19:46, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Helikophis 17:22, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
--Jomegat 00:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

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Rhododendron

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Profile for Rhododendron (Rhododendrons and Azaleas)

Identifying Characteristics
Subclass plants:	R. calendulaceum, R. catawbiense, R. maximum, R. molle, R. prinophyllum, R. subsp. vireya, R. 'Delaware Valley White', R. 'Girard's Crimson', R. 'Hershey's Red', R. 'PJM', R. 'Pleasant White', R. 'Roseum Elegans',

Recent Logs

Jomegat 18:28, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
Jomegat 22:52, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
Jomegat 00:39, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
Jomegat 00:13, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Anna reg 13:41, 10 April 2011 (Photo)
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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer

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Salix

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Profile for Salix (Willow, Sallow, Osier)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	tree or shrub, dioecious
Flowers:	male and female flowers appearing as catkins
Stem:	woody
Fruit:	capsule
Subclass plants:	S. discolor, S. gracilistyla 'Melanostachys', S. 'Pendula', S. 'Tortuosa'

Recent Logs

--Juan 18:57, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
--Jomegat 17:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
--Jomegat 00:16, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
--Jomegat 20:42, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

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Temperate zone season(s): Early Spring, Mid Spring

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Taraxacum officinale

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Profile for Taraxacum officinale (Common Dandelion)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	rosette-forming herbaceous plant with a long taproot
Flowers:	Head, flowers are all ray-like
Foliage:	Basal only, pinnately lobed
Stem:	flower stems are hollow with a milky sap
Scent:	mild, "sunny"
Growing Conditions:	sunny and partly-shaded, well drained soils, drought intolerant
Fruit:	achene with a silky pappus
Similar Plants:	Hypochoeris radicata, Sonchus

Recent Logs

Jomegat 02:17, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
Anna reg 10:13, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Trinity507 16:17, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
Trinity507 03:48, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
Anna gdf 11:38, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
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Global data:
Temperate zone season(s): Mid Winter, Late Winter, Early Spring, Mid Spring, Late Spring, Early Summer, Mid Summer, Late Summer, Early Fall, Mid Fall, Late Fall, Early Winter

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Tussilago farfara

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Profile for Tussilago farfara (Coltsfoot)

Identifying Characteristics
Flowers:	Yellow aster-like rays, very reminiscent of the common dandelion.
Foliage:	The large, heart-shaped, dentate leaves appear after the flowers.
Stem:	10-30cm in height and covered with reddish scales resembling an asparagus.
Growing Conditions:	Roadsides, waste places
Life Cycle:	Perennial
Similar Plants:	Taraxacum officinale

Recent Logs

Jomegat 02:18, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
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Ulmus americana

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Profile for Ulmus americana (American Elm)

Identifying Characteristics
Habit:	Large tree
Flowers:	Apetalous flowers borne in clusters of jointed stems. Flowers appear before leaves.
Foliage:	Doubly toothed margins, pinnately veined with asymmetrical base. Surface has a rough texture.
Stem:	Trunk has deeply furrowed, dark grey bark
Fruit:	Samaras
Similar Plants:	Ulmus rubra (Slippery elm), Celtis spp. (Hackberry)

Recent Logs

Jomegat 17:00, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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Temperate zone season(s): Mid Spring

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