The Trillium Pathway is a 6.4km trail, mainly used by bikes, paralleling the LRT from Hunt Club Road to Earl Armstrong Rd. The north end connects to 13km of trails that goes downtown, without going on streets. The south end connects with the Osgoode Link Pathway that in 21 km takes you to the village of Osgoode.
The Pathway goes very close to the end of a runways at the airport.
At this time of year the Pathway is a mass (or should I say jumble) of wild flowers which many people miss as they ride their bikes.
Most of the photos below were taken on the Trillium Pathway, but a very few on the north end of the Osgoode Link Pathway.
In some areas parsnip lines the trail, sowthistle in other spots, and Queen Anne's Lace in stretches
Queen Anne's Lace is frequently flat, but there were a number of "top of a ball" shaped. The dark speck is a few purple petals in the centre of many blossoms
Tufted vetch is vine like and works its way through the vegetation, while crown vetch is more plant like and forms a large ball of blooms frequently
Chicory (2x), red clover, sweet white clover (2x)
Bladder campion were on their last legs as were the daisies, but the fleabane was going stronger
Dogbane and morning glory
One part of the Pathway had a large concentration of soapwort (2x), another had elderberry bushes.
Yarrow, white meadowsweet, bedstraw and common mugwort
Parsnip, St John's wort, evening primrose
Black-eyed susan (2x), sowthistle, bird's foot trefoil, mullein, cinquefoil, black medick and orange day lily
Milkweed, wild rose, purple loosestrife
I've always stopped for a closer look at joe pye weed and viper's bugloss
Lots of thistles - bull thistle, Canada thistle and broad-winged thistle
Tall thimbleweed, staghorn sumac, dock, and leaves of coltsfoot, the first spring flower
But if you stop and look closely.....
Bald-faced hornet on Queen Anne's lace
A tiny (less than half an inch) eastern calligrapher fly (not a bee) on mullein
Primrose moth with its head in the evening primrose blossom
Bumble bee on tufted vetch
If you missed it above😉, there was an alfalfa plant bug on the bird's foot trefoil
And if you look really closely on this tight crop photo of a parsnip, there is a very small slug.
(Had I seen it while "on location" I would have had a real close-up, but...🙄)
