Epimedium flavum aka Barrenwort: Plant brought from Rye, New York, on Long Island Sound near the Connecticut line a decade ago and finally identified April 16, 2011, when Beth Presley bought a young plant at Farmer's Market on April 16, 2011, and photographer spotted it

Epimedium flava living for a decade near World Peace Wetland Prairie for a decade since Lauren Hawkins brought it from her mother's garden in Rye

Special nearly symmetrical tri-foliate leaf structure easily recognized on Lauren's heritage plant and Beth's new plant

Description of Epimedium (Barrenwort) on pot in which Beth Presley's plant was growing

Beth's plant's leaves small but growing and likely will produce many drooping flowers next spring.

 Recommended for planting in raised but shady garden or upslope so that tiny flowers can be seen at eye level

World Peace Wetland Prairie shows winter beauty under snow canopy on Jan. 31, 2008

Please click on photo to see closeup of Symphoricarpos orbiculatus or coral berry on World Peace Wetland Prairie.
For more photos of World Peace Wetland Prairie native plants during the January 31, 2008, snowfall, please see

World Peace Wetland Prairie blog spot

For the same plants in other seasons and other native plants and animals, please go to

World Peace Wetland Prairie
and click on the button bush photo to go to the Wildflowers of World Peace Wetland Prairie link on Flickr.com

Mark Douglas Thompson's column in the Morning News for January 20, 2008

I've talked to nurses and doctors who work at the veterans' hospital in Fayetteville in past months as well as a retired worker from the VA and several aging current patients.
All say our local VA does a great job. I had been asking the question with the idea of commenting. So now that something to balance the perfect reports has become available I can offer something fair.
A popular columnist for the Morning News has featured a story about how the parking rules at the VA appear to be giving one aging veteran a difficult time. Please read
Mark Douglas Thompson's column on local VA victim for the rest of the story. It isn't the kind of horror story we read about from other parts of the nation about vets newly brought from the battlefield who are being slighted, but it is outrageous to imagine an 87-year-old getting a $50 ticket if he had parked in the middle of North College Avenue or North Street.