7 November 2024
This good orange maple stood out at Hays Woods final weekend however after I examined the picture I noticed there’s a lesson on this image.
The native timber are both naked or, just like the maple, on their final hurrah. In the meantime, there are leafy inexperienced vegetation within the understory whose seasonal cycles don’t match Pittsburgh’s. The inexperienced ones are aliens.
Discover the distinction within the slideshow beneath. Natives are outlined in white, aliens in pink. The straightforward-to-see aliens are bush honeysuckle and porcelainberry.
Alien vegetation usually leaf out early and drop leaves late. As our local weather warms up they’ve a bonus over cautious native vegetation whose seasonal cycles anticipate frost.
Within the days forward most native vegetation will lose their leaves(*) and the one inexperienced left would be the aliens.
In November, alien vegetation actually stand out.
(*) p.s. Although oaks and beeches lose most of their leaves, they maintain some leaves by the winter.
