This Poison Ivy was found in Poison Ivy season. Poison Ivy is actually poisonous but not a really bad kind of poison. Even so, Poison Ivy still is bad for you and we can all agree it is annoying and ichy!
I saw Multiflora rose on the nature trail! Multiflora rose blooms from May to June. Its habitat is borders of fields, woods, and roadsides. The range is southern New England throughout our range. It grows on prickly arching stems. The flowers are 2-3 centimeters wide. The leaves are divided into 7-9 ovate toothed leaflets about 1 inch long. The Multiflora Rose grows fruit that are a small, fleshy, and many seeded hip. Multiflora Rose grows 6-15 feet. Be careful! The stems have thorns that are curved and flattened. The flowers on this plant grows in clusters. The flowers are white and yellow with speckles on the inside.
On the nature walk I saw blue berries! Some of them were just growing. The high bushes can grow up to 12 feet tall. Also, the short blueberry shrubs grow from 1 to 3 feet tall! Blueberry flowers start blooming in the spring. Many, many animals like to eat blueberries like foxes, deer, bears, opossums, bluebirds, cranes, chipmunks, squirrels and more. Blueberries usually grow in small clusters. Blueberries are blue and round. Also, they ripen in July and August. Some blueberry leaves are dark green with very narrow oval leaves from 1 to 3 inches long. Others are shiny light green less than 1 inch long and are very thin. Also, this fruit is the size of a pea.
There are lots of birdhouses on the Abbot Nature Trail. The homes are used for the birds that live near Abbot school. These houses can be found deep within the woods near Abbot school. Birdhouses can have all types of birds in them. These shelters are found on trees.