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Buck Creek Barrens Various 2025 Images Winter-Spring-Summer |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
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Buck Creek Barrens Various 2025 Images Winter-Spring-Summer |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| 1 - Early February 2025 On a drizzly February day, I explored a section east of Buck Creek, hoping to find something unusual. I found a few prospecting pits, but nothing too exciting. It was a nice open woods to explore though... |
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| A mossy, boulder-strewn creek |
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| Another section of creek... |
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| An old woods road |
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| 2 - March 2025 I had gone down to the Herbert Mine to spend an hour or so looking for corundum. On my way out, I saw a fragment of a soapstone bowl alongside the old road. |
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| Soapstone bowl fragment - interior and exterior |
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| Finding the bowl fragment got me looking for a bowl quarry. I found one mossy rounded boulder that had potential. |
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| Huge pine near the site of the old Buck Creek Lodge |
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| 3 - Late July 2025 I had botanized here several times in the spring, but those were multi-location days, so the photos are included in the general "Chunky Gal" area gallery. Today's visit included first the general Buck Creek area, and later the Corundum Knob area. |
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| Hairy Angelica (Angelica venenosa) |
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| Yellow {Orange} Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) I was a little early for these; they were just beginning to flower. |
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| Yellow {Orange} Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) |
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| Yellow {Orange} Fringed Orchid (Platanthera ciliaris) |
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| Featherbells (Stenanthium gramineum) |
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| Stenanthium gramineum |
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| Rosepink (Sabatia angularis) |
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| Broadleaf Meadowsweet (Spirea latifolia) |
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| Southern Mountainmint (Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides) |
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| Southern Mountainmint (Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides) - flower detail |
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| Phlox (either P. carolina or P. ovata) |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) on Mountainmint (Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides) |
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| Pipevine Swallowtail (Battus philenor) on Phlox |
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| Crisped Bunchflower (Melanthium hybridum) |
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| Crisped Bunchflower (Melanthium hybridum) |
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| Melanthium hybridum - flower detail |
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| Canada Burnet (Sanguisorbia canadensis), in bud. |
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| 4 - Late August 2025 After a visit to Riley Cove, I stopped by Buck Creek. |
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| Southern Harebells (Campanula divaricata) |
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| Curtiss' Milkwort, aka Appalachian Milkwort (Senega curtissii) - formerly Polygala genus... |
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| The Yellow Fringed Orchids (Platanthera ciliaris) were well past their prime... |
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| Canada Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis) |
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| Savanna Blazing Star (Liatris scariosa) |
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| Bee on Savanna Blazing Star (Liatris scariosa) |
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| Savanna Blazing Star (Liatris scariosa) |
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| Outbuilding foundations at the site of the "Bobby house". |
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| Unidentified mushrooms |