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Chestnut Branch Spring 2022 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2022) |
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Chestnut Branch Spring 2022 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2022) |
| I drove over to Chestnut Branch by Buck Creek to revisit my favorite sedge. Many species here were a week or more behind their normal bloom times, so I didn't take as many shots as I had planned to. |
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| Fraser's Sedge (Carex fraseriana), my favorite! |
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| Fraser's Sedge flowers |
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| Single Fraser's Sedge inflorescence The male flowers are on top, female flowers in the lower portion. |
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| Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba) In my experience, the flowers of H. acutiloba tend to be usually white, with not as many purple / pink flowers as H. americana. But I found a patch of nice deeply colored flowers among the mostly white blooms. |
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| Trout lilies were already bloomed out at home, but just 10 miles away (and much higher elevation) they were at peak bloom. |
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| A single Dimpled Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) |
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| Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum); leafed out, but no flowers yet. |
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| Bluets (Houstonia sp.) |