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Mountain Bog GA4T - June 2018 Chattahoochee National Forest, Rabun Co., GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2018) |
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Mountain Bog GA4T - June 2018 Chattahoochee National Forest, Rabun Co., GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2018) |
| GPCA Bog Conservation Network visit - site & plant survey and flower pollination: |
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| A beautiful bog, with water slowly flowing through the peat moss... |
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| This is one of very few sites in Georgia where Small Spreading Pogonia (Cleistesiopsis bifaria) grows. We found five of these rare plants in bloom on this visit. A sampling of images follows: |
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| Pogonia 1 |
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| Pogonia 1, from another angle |
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| Pogonia 2 |
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| Pogonia 2, with a (potential?) pollinator |
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| Pogonia 3 |
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| Pogonia 4 |
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| Pogonia 5, which appeared to have sustained some damage from ? |
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| Mountain (or Southern Appalachian) Purple Pitcherplant (Sarracenia purpurea ssp. purpurea var. montana) Another uncommon plant growing at this site. |
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| Pitcher plant flower, going to seed |
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| The pitcher plants appear to be doing well here |
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| Healthy peat moss Unlike most recent visits to N. Georgia bogs, there were no signs of recent hog damage (knock on wood!)... |