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    Home » Underfoot

Underfoot

Underfoot is a recurring series on the NPC blog, highlighting various botanical wonders. Authored by environmental educator and NPC member, Susan Sprout, the first issue was introduced in April 2020 in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day.

Susan Sprout is a retired school teacher who continued teaching after retirement at Montour Preserve helping teachers of  handicapped students with nature walks, at the National Shell Museum as a curator of the fossil collection, and as teacher of Shell Studies at the local school on Sanibel Island. Based on her love and study of plants, she does living history presentations of medicinal plants used by Native Americans, colonial immigrants, and people living during the Civil War. Both she and her husband, Richard, serve as cannoneers  with Thompson’s Independent Battery C PA Light Artillery.  Sue has served on the Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy board in the past. The Sprouts have been Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy members for 30+ years.  

Catch up on past issues of Underfoot:

  • Introduction & Bloodroot
  • Trout Lily & Coltsfoot
  • Blue Cohosh & Dutchman’s Breeches
  • Ground Ivy & Forget-Me-Nots
  • Goldthread & Wild Ginger
  • Common Mullein & Sweet Woodruff
  • Aniseroot & Butterfly Weed, Myself 
  • Jewelweed & Soapwort
  • American Pennyroyal & Great Lobelia
  • Boneset & Common Ragweed, Pokeweed & Blue Chicory
  • Prickly Cucumber & Wintergreen
  • Beech Drops & Partridge Berry
  • Pipsissewa & Nostoc
  • Witch Hazel
  • Plantsgiving
  • Black Jetbead & Decorating with Winterberry
  • Wild Bergamot & Bald Cypress Tree
  • Galls & Bittersweet
  • American Beech & Bagworm
  • Seedpods & American Chestnut
  • Northern Bayberry & Sweet Fern
  • Broom-sedge & Common Motherswort
  • Snow Drops
  • It’s About Time: Celebrating Earth Day 2021
  • Life on a Rock
  • Sharp-lobed Liverleaf
  • Box Elder
  • Violets
  • Wild Columbine
  • Red Trillium
  • Wild Sarsaparilla
  • Squawroot
  • Indian Cucumber Root
  • Geraniums
  • Green Dragon
  • Northern Maidenhair Fern
  • American Sycamore
  • Yellow Wild Indigo
  • Ephemeral: Thinking About Things Seen
  • Ural False Spiraea
  • Smooth Rock Tripe
  • Steeplebush
  • Spotted Spurge
  • Swamp Dewberry
  • Turkey Tail
  • Teasel
  • White Snake Root
  • Nodding Ladies’ Tresses
  • Tearthumb
  • Spicebush
  • Sassafras
  • Jeepers, Virginia Creepers!
  • On the Ground or Underfoot?
  • Coral Fungus
  • It’s #Plantsgiving Time Again!
  • Rattlesnake Plantain
  • Eastern Hemlock
  • Virgin’s Bower
  • Ah, Sweet Mystery
  • Praying Mantis Facts
  • Barring the Berry – Japanese Barberry
  • Mosses in General
  • Northern White Cedar AKA Arborvitae
  • Lycopodium or Clubmoss
  • Lichens
  • Grow Where You Are Planted
  • Honey Locust
  • Vines in General
  • Horsetails
  • Petrichor
  • Hairy Bittercress
  • Skunk Cabbage
  • Earth Day 2022 – Happy Day – Happy Us!
  • Daffodil Connections
  • Ramps a.k.a. Wild Leeks
  • Spring Beauty
  • Early Saxifrage
  • Yellow Morels
  • Squirrel Corn
  • Miterwort and False Miterwort
  • PA Native Species Day – June 17
  • Spiderwort
  • Wood Nettles

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