Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
On our walk at the Toni Robinson Waterfront Trail that began at 1:30pm, Nancy Soucy, Class of 2010, pointed out common spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis) but was disappointed that the flowers were not looking their finest. Also known as Ohio spiderwort,…
Volunteer Jean 'JJ' Romano asked for the name of this white flowered vining plant that she encountered near the second wetland crossover bridge when she was working to control invasive plants on Wednesday. The common name of the vine is…
Ken Gonyo, who will be leading nature walks at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) on the first and third Saturday of each month from November through April, asked why this plant, Smallanthus urvedia, is called yellow leafcup or hairy leafcup.…
Another sure sign of the advent of Fall at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area are the sunny yellow flowers of the tall, perennial plant, hairy leafcup (Smallanthus uvedelia) at the park entrance. This plant dies back to the ground each…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 