My Seek Findings - By Felicia
It’s SPRING! The temperatures are rising so fast: according to the weather app, it was 23 degrees yesterday, but it’s 31 degrees TODAY. Some things I’ve been doing outside are painting rocks, working on CookyLela News, and… GARDENING! New plants have been sprouting up EVERYWHERE, so I decided to use an app called Seek, which I’ve reviewed here.
The first finding is a type of purple flower that has sprouted EVERYWHERE. I repeat, EVERYWHERE. They’re really pretty, and here’s a picture:
As you can see, they are EVERYWHERE. I think they’re really pretty! They are called Boissier’s Glory-of-the-snow, or Scilla luciliae. I feel that this name really makes sense, since they sprouted right after the last snowfall.
This flower is a bulbous perennial from western Turkey that flowers in early spring. After flowering, it goes into dormancy until the next spring.
Each bulb produces two leaves, up to 8 cm long and 2 cm wide, and at most one flowering stem, up to 10 cm long. The flowers are produced with 2–3 flowers per stem, which face upwards. Each flower is up to 3.5 cm across.
The second finding is actually a squirrel. Just a common squirrel that we see every day here. But I’ve wondered for a really long time what species they were.
This squirrel is called the Eastern Gray Squirrel, or Sciurus carolinesis. It’s native to eastern North America.
The eastern gray squirrel has predominantly gray fur, but it can have a brownish color. It has a large bushy tail that it likes to swing around.
The eastern gray squirrel is a scatter-hoarder: it hoards food, such as nuts, in numerous small caches for later.
Eastern gray squirrels are crepuscular, or more active during the early and late hours of the day, and tend to avoid the heat in the middle of a summer day. However, they do not hibernate.