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Flora & Fauna

Many of us here at Coffman are photographers, or wildlife watchers.  Below you will find a collection of favorite photos of wildlife visitors and plant life residents to our grounds!  Our native plantings and shade garden make cozy homes for lots of critters, and are an especially rare and treasured part of our landscape, here.  Read more about landscaping for wildlife.  The US Forestry Service also shares tips on landscaping for wildlife.

Creating a wildlife garden reverses habitat destruction resulting from cities, pollution, or other human caused changes that are hurting wildlife. A wildlife garden might include:

Food: Native plants are especially suited to the local fauna.  Animals, birds, bugs, etc.  all need food: nectar, seeds, nuts, fruits, berries, foliage, pollen, and insects.

Water: All animals need water to survive and some need it for bathing or breeding as well.

Cover: Shelter is a primary need for all of us.  Shelter from bad weather as well as places to hide from predators -- or places to hide while stalking prey.  Prairie gardens, woodland gardens, and rain gardens are three separate types of habitat, providing varying cover and resources, each for a different range of wildlife.

Places to Raise Young: Some wildlife have totally different habitat needs in their juvenile phase than they do as adults.  All wildlife need safe and reliable resources to reproduce and raise young.

Sustainable Practices: How you manage your garden can have an effect on the health of the soil, air, water, and habitat for native wildlife as well as the human community.

Butterflies

American Painted Lady
Black Swallowtail
Cabbage White
Eastern Comma
Eastern Tailed Blue
Monarch
Northern/Pearl Crescent
Red Admiral
Summer Azure
Tiger Swallowtail

Does anyone have pictures of . . .

Reptiles
Amphibians

Moths
Insects
Spiders


Send Cathy photos of local flora & fauna at 1666 Coffman!

These are the birds we've see on our property and in our gardens

Birds

American Crow
American Goldfinch
American Redstart
American Robin
Bald Eagle
Black-capped Chickadee
Blue Jay
Brown Thrasher
Cedar Waxwing
Common Yellowthroat
Cooper’s Hawk
Dark-eyed Junco
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Towhee
European Starling
Northern Cardinal
House Sparrow
Long-eared Owl
Northern Cardinal
Common Redpoll
Northern Flicker
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
White-throated Sparrow
Wild Turkey
Wilson’s Warbler

Mammals

Picture

Red Squirrel

Eastern Gray Squirrel
Mouse
Picture

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

Woodchuck
Picture

Red Fox

Coyote
White-tailed Deer

Native Plants
We have planned and planted several native plant gardens.  The lists below show the actual plantings in our Prairie Meadow, Wetland Garden, and  Woodland Garden. There were some trees and weedy plants on the site originally, but otherwise, all these have been planted.  This inventory is divided into lists for each of the major wild garden areas: the Prairie Meadow, the Wetland Garden, and the Woodland Garden.  There are also some natives that have been planted in individual garden plots.

Wild Ginger – Asarum canadense
Ostrich Fern
       – Matteuccia struthiopteri
Common Blue Violet – Viola sororia
Tall White Violet – Viola canadensis

Woodland Garden

Large-flowered Bellwort
       – Uvularia grandiflora
Virginia Bluebells
       – Mertensia virginica
Jacob’s Ladder
       – Polemonium reptans
Mayapple – Podophyllum peltatum
Red Trillium – Trillium erectum
White Trillium
       – Trillium grandiflorum
Prairie Trillium– Trillium recurvatum
White Trout Lily
       – Erythronium albidum

Wetland Garden

Black-eyed Susan
Blue Lobelia – Lobelia siphilitica
Cardinal Flower 
      – Lobelia cardinalis
Flat-topped Aster
      – Aster umbellatus
Joe Pye Weed
      – Eupatorium maculatum
Blazing Star – Liatris
Sneezeweed
      – Helenium autumnale
Wild Goldenglow
      – Rudbeckia laciniata
Nodding Burr-marigold
       – Bidens cernuus
Ox-eye – Heliopsis helianthoides
Pussytoes
       – Antennaria plantaginifolia
Smartweed – Polygonum sp.
Smooth Blue Aster – Aster laevis
Sneezeweed – Helenium autumnale
Swamp Milkweed
       – Asclepias incarnata


Sweet Everlasting
       – Gnaphalium obtusifolium
Tall Boneset – Eupatorium altissimum
Tall Sunflower – Helianthus giganteus
Tall Swamp Marigold
       – Bidens coronatus
Water Horehound
       – Lycopus americanus
White Snakeroot
       – Eupatorium rugosum
Wild Goldenglow
       – Rudbeckia laciniata

Prairie Meadow

American Burn Weed
       – Erechtites hieracifolia
Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia hirta
Blue Lobelia – Lobelia siphilitica
Blue Vervain – Verbena hastata
Boneset – Eupatorium perfoliatum
Canada Goldenrod
       – Solidago canadensis
Cardinal Flower – Lobelia cardinalis
Cinnamon Willow-herb
       – Epilobium coloratum
Common False Foxglove
      – Agalinis tenuifolia
Evening Primrose – Oenothera biennis
False Boneset – Kuhnia eupatorioides
Field Thistle – Cirsium discolor
Flat-topped Aster – Aster umbellatus
Fleabane – Erigeron sp.
Golden Alexander – Zizia aurea
Grass-leaved Goldenrod
       – Euthamia graminifolia
Ironweed – Vernonia fasciculata
Jewelweed – Impatiens capensis
Joe Pye Weed
       – Eupatorium maculatum
New England Aster
       – Aster novae-angliae

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