Gaylussacia baccata, the black huckleberry, is a common huckleberry found throughout a wide area of eastern North America.
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red maple (Acer rubrum)
Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp, water or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest service recognizes it as the most abundant native tree in eastern North America. The red maple ranges from southeastern Manitoba around the Lake of the Woods on the border with Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland, south to Florida, and southwest to eastern Texas….
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common bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)
Pteridium aquilinum (bracken, brake or common bracken), also known as eagle fern, and Eastern brakenfern, is a species of fern occurring in temperate and subtropical regions in both hemispheres. The extreme lightness of its spores has led to its global distribution.
Callosamia angulifera, the tuliptree silkmoth or giant silkmoth, is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It is found in North America from Massachusetts east through central New York, southern Ontario, and southern Michigan to central Illinois, south to the Florida panhandle and Mississippi.
Laetiporus sulphureus is a species of bracket fungus (fungi that grow on trees) found in Europe and North America. Its common names are crab-of-the-woods, sulphur polypore, sulphur shelf, and chicken-of-the-woods. Its fruit bodies grow as striking golden-yellow shelf-like structures on tree trunks and branches. Old fruitbodies fade to pale beige or pale grey. The undersurface of the fruit body is made up of tubelike pores rather than gills.
I bought this abandoned home circa 1888 on Mercury Street for only $5,000 in Petersburg, Virginia at a tax sale and I have been getting to work restoring this structure here in Petersburg, Virginia a city with over 2,900 blighted and vacant structures, according to the 2020 United States Census. This week I am restoring the gutters and the chimney stack. I would also like to thank Meta for Creators for sponsoring me throughout this endeavor.
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Carduus pycnocephalus, with common names including Italian thistle, Italian plumeless thistle, and Plymouth thistle, is a species of thistle. It is native to: the Mediterranean region in southern Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia; East Europe and the Caucasus; and the Indian Subcontinent.
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Dekay’s Brownsnake (Storeria dekayi)
Storeria dekayi, commonly known as the brown snake or De Kay’s snake, is a small species of colubrid snake.
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Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Vicia sativa, known as the common vetch, garden vetch, tare or simply vetch, is a nitrogen-fixing leguminous plant in the family Fabaceae. Although considered a weed when found growing in a cultivated grainfield, this hardy plant is often grown as green manure or livestock fodder.
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