While some flowers are adapted to blooming early in the spring (see the Spring Wildflowers station), the flowers at this station tend to bloom later in the year. Late-blooming wildflowers tend to be ...

The Aquatic Life station discussed plants and animals that inhabit the water. Here, we focus on plants that live in wet areas, but not in the water. Jack-in-the-pulpit flowers from April to June. Its ...

The angiosperms are the most recently derived plant group, originating some 160 million years ago and becoming widespread around 120 million years ago. Angiosperm means “enclosed seed,” referring to ...

In the spring, you will find many wildflowers blooming in this area. Wildflowers might adapt to bloom in the spring for various reasons. Some depend on the moist conditions brought on by snowmelt; ...

The clubmosses and their relatives are the most ancient group of vascular plants — plants with specialized tissue called xylem that transports water and nutrients throughout the plant. The only plant ...

Fungi are neither plants nor animals. The kingdom fungi is one of the six kingdoms of life, along with plants, animals, protists, bacteria and archaea. Molds and yeasts are part of the kingdom fungi, ...

Other stations along the Waldbauer trail discuss concepts such as the ecological niche, the “lifestyle” of an organism (see Ecological Niches), and secondary succession, the series of species that ...

A walk through the woods can feel a bit odd. You know the animals are out there, but all you see is plants. The Adirondacks are a haven for animals of all sorts. So, where are they? Most animals here ...

The Adirondacks are home to a number of migratory bird species. Every spring these birds leave their winter homes in warmer regions in order to feast upon the many insects present in the Adirondacks ...

Many communities of plants and animals are temporary. They exist for some period of time and then are gradually replaced by other species that will, in turn, be replaced by still others. This process ...

Symbiosis is from the Greek for “living together.” A symbiosis is any sort of persistent interaction between two species. Forms of symbiosis include parasitism, which involves a species living off a ...

Gymnosperm means “naked seed” and comes from the same Greek root as gymnastics, which means to exercise naked. This group of plants is so named because the seeds are not enclosed inside an ovary, ...