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Yesterday I led my first guided hike! After one of my instructors mentioned that he always likes to have master naturalists lead events, I thought that would be a perfect opportunity for me to take the final project idea from my @fmnpofficial uplands course and expand it into a hike format. 🥾 So grateful for my friends and their loved ones that came out yesterday to give me some practice with my @hopeforfloridaproject hike concept. It went well, and I’m excited to be leading more hikes in the future! 🥾 (I’m doing another rehearsal before I schedule any formal hikes—if you’re free, join me tomorrow morning at 10am outside Lyonia Environmental Center! It’ll be about 90 minutes, and we’ll be walking a little under a mile on sugar sand trails in direct sun with about 40ft of elevation.) 🥾 📸: @sunflower_eyes_ 🌱 💙 🍄 #florida #hike #nature #naturelovers #outsideisfree #naturalist #volusiacounty #LoveFL #westvolusiaFLA #visitwestvolusia #oldfloridanewvibe #lyoniapreserve #deltona #deltonafl @visitwestvolusia @countyofvolusia @lec.friends (at Lyonia Nature Preserve) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnuqneYuuv0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Field journal 📔

ID: Hypericum fasciculatum

Common name: Peelbark St. John’s wort, sandweed

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You may have heard of St. John’s wort as a supplement, but that does not come from any of our Florida native species of St. John’s wort. This particular species does contain the hypericin compound that is supposed to be healing in the right dose, but can cause dermatitis or photosensitization if not taken correctly.

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I always wondered why so many plants have “wort” in their name, and the answer is pretty simple: in Old English “wyrt” meant “plant.” At some point, the spelling changed to “wort” and was used commonly until the mid 1600s. So if you have a plant with “wort” in its name, it was probably first described and named more than 300 years ago.

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The Old English “wyrt” actually came from the Germanic word “wurtiz.” In addition to giving us “wyrt,” the word “wurtiz” also evolved into “Wurzel,” which is the modern German word for “root.”

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Shoutout to @geraldsavesflorida whose posts often dig into the language history of species names, which inspires me to do the same in my own research!

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📍Volusia County, FL

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Field journal 📔

ID: Lobelia sp. (I’m pretty sure it’s Lobelia glandulosa)

Common name: Lobelia (glade lobelia, to be specific, if I got the species correct)

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There are 415 species of Lobelia, and according to the Atlas of Florida Plants, we have 15 of them here in Florida.

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I first learned about lobelias after spotting one in Ohio, so it was exciting once I started to notice them here in Florida.

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I didn’t unearth anything else jaw dropping about this plant, but take special note of the bug perched on this lobelia, because I’ll be making a separate field journal entry for this species soon! Anybody know what type of bug it is? I forgot that members of this superfamily can be so tiny, so this was an adorable reminder!

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📍Volusia County

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Field journal 📔

ID: Drosera spp.

Common name: sundew

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These carnivorous plants are so cool! What you see in these photos are the leaves. It looks like they have dewdrops on them, but those are actually a sticky substance produced by the plant to catch bugs.

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Once a bug is caught, the leaf will roll up, killing the insect quickly, but sometimes spending weeks digesting the insect.

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Carnivorous plants often grow in soils that are low in nutrients. They consume insects, which provide nutrition that the plants can’t get from the poor soil quality.

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We have 5 native species of sundew in Florida. I think this one is either D. capillaris or D. brevifolia.

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📍Volusia County, FL

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I’m still on such a high from seeing so many pine lilies recently! If you missed it, you can go back a few posts to see the reel I made with more info about these beauties!

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📍Volusia County, FL

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