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Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Seepage Fen Spring-Summer 2016 (ES) |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2016) |
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Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Seepage Fen Spring-Summer 2016 (ES) |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2016) |
| May 2016 |
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| Green Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia oreophila) |
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| Flowers in full bloom |
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| Late June 2016 |
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| Numerous clumps of Sarracenia... |
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| Veins on a mature pitcher tube (which is actually the plant's leaf). |
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| Slender Marsh Pink, aka Slender Rose Gentian (Sabatia campanulata) |
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| Another Marsh Pink, with a fresher flower... |
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| Rice Button Aster, aka Bushy Aster (Symphyotrichum dumosum) |
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| Cross-Leaf Milkwort (Polygala cruciata), just starting to bloom. |
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| Woodland Flax (Linum virginianum) |
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| One of the Eupatoriums, probably Round-leafed Thoroughwort (E. rotundifolium) |
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| July 2016 |
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Cross-Leaf Milkworts - further along than in the earlier visit |
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| Lanceleaf Loosestrife (Lysimachia lanceolata) |
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| Fading Pitcher Plant flowers... |
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| Spiral seed pod cluster, probably one of the Dodders (Cuscuta sp.) |
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| Blue-flower Eryngo (Eryngium integrifolium) |
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| Southern Slender Ladies'-tresses orchid (Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis) |
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| Pale Meadow Beauty (Rhexia mariana) |
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| Downy Rattlesnake Plantain Orchid (Goodyera pubescens) |