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Events for May 2025

Name: Yoga with Mala Yoga
Start: 2025-05-27T06:45:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-27T07:45:00-05:00
Location: Aldo Leopold Nature Center | Monona Campus

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Pussy willow buds are growing bigger and getting ready to bloom! Among the very first plants to bloom each spring, soft little nubs of silver appear along pussy willow branches in March. This soft coating of hairs protects the flowers from the chill of early spring in preparation for their full bloom later in the season. As the weather warms and the buds grow larger, the silver tufts open into beautiful flowers called catkins. Pussy willows are dioecious, which means that male and female flowers are separated and grow on different plants. This particular characteristic can be costly for a species, since only female plants produce seeds. Pussy willows do get effectively pollinated, despite the distance between male and female shrubs, due to a lack of competition from other flowers as early-spring pollinators are desperate for food. This is a great example of a mutually-beneficial relationship between plants and pollinators.Catkins don’t look like a typical flower, they are cylindrical clusters of tiny, downy blooms. Male catkins have a dense mass of bright yellow, pollen-rich stamens, while female catkins look like hairy, green caterpillars. What signs of spring do you see? Visit us for a hike or take a walk around your neighborhood looking for cyclical events influenced by seasonal changes.Photo compilation: Stephanie Briand, Aldo Leopold Nature Center#PhenologyFriday #PussyWillow #WIEnviroEd #NatureIsEverywhere #NatureIsForEveryone #EveryBodyOutside ...

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