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Buck Creek Barrens Gentianopsis 2025 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
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Buck Creek Barrens Gentianopsis 2025 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| 1 - September 29, 2025 I'd planned to visit two bogs near Standing Indian, but the water was too high, along with the resultant sucking muck factor. So I headed to Buck Creek to look at more Fringed Gentians. The site we'd visited on our hike a week earlier isn't the main population, but it was the easiest group to reach at the time. This time I went to the "main" area; being late afternoon by now, many of the flowers had already closed up. But I found plenty that were still open. |
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| The "pond-bog" was starting to develop a little color, compared to a week earlier. |
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| I passed some Nodding Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes cernua) on the way in. |
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| As well as some Stiff Gentians (Gentianella quinquefolia) |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentian (Gentianopsis crinita) - flower close-up. |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) another flower close-up. |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentian (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentians (Gentianopsis crinita) |
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| Fringed Gentian (Gentianopsis crinita) close-up with a tiny crab spider. |
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| Large-leaf Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia grandifolia) |
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| Another Large-leaf Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia grandifolia) |
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| More Nodding Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes cernua) |
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| The Appalachian Gentians (Gentiana decora) were starting to look a little raggedy. |