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Coweeta Hydrologic Lab - 3 May 2017 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2017) |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Lab - 3 May 2017 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2017) |
| Late May 2017: |
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| This visit's highlight was Small Purple Fringed Orchids (Platanthera psycodes). A friend discovered this roadside colony last year. |
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| A pair on a steep bank, one above the other... |
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| One more plant from this group. |
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| I found more orchids at a large seep area 3/4 mile from the roadside colony. |
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| This orchid was within 100 ft of the previous plant. |
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| Tassel Rue, aka False Bugbane (Trautvetteria caroliniensis) |
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| Four-leaf Milkweed (Asclepias quadrifolia) |
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| Fire Pink (Silene virginica) |
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| Individual flower of Poke Milkweed (Asclepias exaltata) |
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| Sundrops (Oenothera fruticosa) |
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| Venus' Looking Glass (Triodanis perfoliata) flowers |
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| Goat's Beard (Aruncus dioicus) |
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| Spiderwort (Tradescantia sp.) |
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| Summer Bluets (Houstonia purpurea) |
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| Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum), still hanging in there... |
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| Purple-flowered Raspberry (Rubus odoratus) |
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| Speckled Wood Lilies (Clintonia umbellulata) |
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| Dutchman's Pipe (Isotrema macrophyllum) |
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| Hedge Bindweed (Calystegia sepium) |
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| Yellow Wood Sorrel (Oxalis stricta) |
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| Not sure which Bluets these are... Probably either Houstonia longifolia or H. purpurea |
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| The sky alternated back & forth all day between clear blue and dark clouds. |