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Buck Creek Dunite Barrens April 2023 Visits |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2023) |
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Buck Creek Dunite Barrens April 2023 Visits |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2023) |
| 1 - Early April The second stop in my first 2023 spring visitation to four nearby areas. |
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| A carpet of Bluets (Houstonia sp.) |
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| Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens) This species was about finished blooming for the year, but I found a few remaining flowers. |
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| Serviceberry flowers (Amelanchier arborea) |
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| Carolina Vetch (Vicia caroliniana) |
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| One of my favorites, Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea) |
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| This is the only population of this species growing close to me that I know of. |
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| Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea) |
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| They were just getting started blooming... |
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| Indian Paintbrush |
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| Birdsfoot Violet (Viola pedata) |
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| 2 - Late April Scouting out the bloom progression to get ready for a GA BotSoc Spring Pilgrimage trip I'll be leading in May: |
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| The Castilleja were more fully in bloom than a few weeks prior. |
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| Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea) |
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| A nice trio |
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| Indian Paintbrush |
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| A nice bunch of Hexastylis ruthii (Appalachian Heartleaf) I counted 20 little brown jugs in this clump. There's been much discussion about whether this is a new species (see Weakley), but I'm just calling it H. ruthii for now. |
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| Gaywings, aka Fringed Polygala (Polygaloides paucifolia) |
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| Gaywings |
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| Gaywings I had seen a few scattered plants in prior years, but found a much more extensive population nearby this year. |
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| Gaywings |
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| Painted Trillium (Trillidium undulatum) Oddly, I only saw a single plant here today. (But we found several more in early May.) |
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| Sessile Bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia) |
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| Carolina Vetch (Vicia caroliniana) |