On Nature's Trail | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-15

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On Nature's Trail was a television show produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting in Owings Mills, Maryland in 1978. The show featured Elmer and Jean Worthley observing and discussing plants growing at different locations in Baltimore County, Maryland. Observations were made at the same locations during the Spring, Summer and Fall.
A pamphlet titled "On Natures Trail" was designed and illustrated by Stephen Doyle (A Program Service of the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting, Owings Mills, Maryland 21117). Sketches of some of the plants seen on these weekly walks are included in this booklet, and the following information comes from this publication.

1. Swamp in Spring   [ arrowwood, calamus, cinnamon fern, poison sumac, red maple, silkydogwood, skunk cabbage, smooth alder, sphagnum moss, spicebush, swamp highbush blueberry, Turk's-cap lily, tussock sedge ]
2. Serpentine Barren in Spring   [ beard grass, bird's-foot violet, blue-eyed grass, bluets, British soldiers (lichen), broom moss, cinquefoil, cushion moss, ebony spleenwort, field chickweed, gray shield lichen, holy grass, Indian grass, lyre-leaved rockcress, pixie cups (lichen), purple ceratodon (moss), reindeer lichen, sagittate-leaved violet, urn fungus, Virginia pine, wrinkled shield lichen ]
3. Stream in Spring  [ Carex crinita (sedge), Christmas fern, cinnamon fern, false hellebore, false Solomon's seal, golden saxifrage, Indian cucumber, lady fern, liverwort, May apple, rattlesnake fern, shining club moss, silvery spleenwort, skunk cabbage, royal fern, stinging nettle, tulip tree flower ]
4. Woods in Spring   [ beech, chestnut oak, fungus on laurel leaf, hay-scented fern, lion's-foot, maple-leaved viburnum, mountain laurel, partridge berry, polypody fern, red-backed salamander, trailing arbutus, Virginia creeper, wild azalea, wild sarsaparilla, Wissahickon schist, witch hazel ]
5. Woodsy Stream in Spring   [ black gum, common elder or elderberry, cross vine, deer's tongue panic grass, fragile or brittle fern, green ash, hairy cap moss, Higan cherry, hill Senecio, hispid buttercup, hog peanut, Jack-in-the-pulpit, jewel weed, lady fern, oak daedalia, red maple, wild lily-of-the-valley, wool sower gall ]
6. Pasture Field in Spring   [ bulbous buttercup, common speedwell, daisy, field hawkweed, horse nettle, Kentucky bluegrass, multiflora rose, pasture thistle, puffball, pussytoes, spittlebug, sweet vernal grass, wild strawberry, yarrow ]
7. Railroad Track in Spring   [ bouncing bet, butter-and-eggs, common horsetail, common milkweed, dock, downy brome grass, evening lychnis, milk snake, mullein, pennycress, peppergrass, reed canary grass, spiderwort, spreading dogbane, Venus' looking-glass, viper's bugloss, wintercress, yellow sweet clover ]
8. Roadside in Spring   [ asparagus beetle, bagworm, bedstraw, black medick, black willow, box elder, coltsfoot, common ragweed, dandelion, dodder, giant ragweed, Japanese honeysuckle, northern weasel, perfoliate tearthumb, poison ivy, rough bluegrass, sheep fescue, Virginia creeper, white mulberry, wild asparagus, wild lettuce, wild yam ]
9. Pond in Summer   [ alder, ants, bur reed, cardinal flower, cattail, duckweed, green frogs, heal-all, meadow beauty, pickerel weed, pink lotus, rattlebox, sedges, spreading goldenrod, swamp milkweed, water clover (fern), water lily, water plantain, wooly aphids, yellow iris ]
10. Hedgerow in Summer   [ black gum, black oak, black sweet cherry, black wild raspberry, flowering dogwood, greenbrier, Japanese honeysuckle, multiflora rose, pignut hickory, pin oak, red sweet cherry, sassafras, slippery elm, staghorn sumac, wax cherry, white mulberry, yellow sweet cherry, yellow wild raspberry ]
11. Old Field in Summer   [ a ...