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Assorted / Misc. Botanical Finds Mid April, 2025 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
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Assorted / Misc. Botanical Finds Mid April, 2025 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| 1 - Towns County, GA - Mid April, 2025 Visiting the current Ramp harvest site, and then checking my original Goldenseal site, which had been almost decimated two years earlier. |
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| The ramps (Allium tricoccum) continue to do well here. I made my annual spring harvest on April 15. |
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| Bear Corn (Conopholis americana) I didn't do any additional botanizing here before or after the harvest, since I had another site I wanted to visit, but I did take this one other photo. |
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| When I last visited my favorite Goldenseal site in 2023, both populations had been somewhat decimated and I saw no flowers. They seem to have made a recovery in 2025, and I saw the most flowers I've ever seen here. |
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| Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis) flower |
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| Goldenseal flower Lacking petals and losing the sepals early, the flowers of this species owe their color to the many whitish stamens. |
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| A few more examples There are two distinct clusters in the area, about 100 yards apart. |
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| The species is ranked "S1 - Critically Imperiled" in Georgia |
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| Southern Adder's Tongue (Ophioglossum vulgatum) Although not rare, Adder's Tongue is not often seen, perhaps due to its small size. |
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| Southern Adder's Tongue |
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| Showy Orchis (Galearis spectabilis) Most of the plants that I saw were just emerging, but a very few were already in full bloom. |
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| Trillium cuneatum |
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| Trillium cuneatum - yellow form |
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| Catesby's Trillium (Trillium catesbaei) |
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| Broad-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine diphylla) |
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| Foamflower (Tiarella nautila) |
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| Rattlesnake Fern (Botrypus virginianus) |