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Chestnut Branch & Barnards Creek Spring 2020 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2020) |
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Chestnut Branch & Barnards Creek Spring 2020 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2020) |
| Early April, 2020 I made a quick visit to check the bloom status of the Fraser's Sedge and see what else was in flower. |
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| Fraser's Sedge (Carex fraseriana) |
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| Fraser's Sedge flower |
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| Fraser's Sedge has both female and male flowers in the inflorescence. The male flowers are at the top, with the female flowers in the lower portion. |
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| Plantain-leaf Sedge (Carex plantaginea) Another broad-leaf sedge, not quite as showy as the Fraser's Sedge. |
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| The flowers are more typical of other Carex species... |
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| Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba) in bud |
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| Trout Lily (Erythronium sp.) |
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| Mid April, 2020 I made a return visit with Alan C; this was one of several sites we explored that day. |
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| Trillium erectum |
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| Trillium erectum, with cream colored flower |
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| Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) |
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| Flowers of Fraser's Sedge |
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| American Thintail Fly (Meliscaeva cinctella) on Carex Fraseriana flower Unlike most sedges, which are wind-pollinated, Fraser's Sedge is primarily pollinated by insects, which are attracted to the showy white inflorescences. |
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| Showing the male and female flowers |
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| One last Fraser's Sedge flower... |
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| Yellow Mandarin (Prosartes lanuginosa) |
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| A pair of Yellow Mandarin flowers |
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| Large flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) |
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| Mid May, 2020 Last year, I found a Clintonia here with bright blue berries, and assumed it must be C. borealis. I hoped to find it in flower today, but it turned out to be the more common C. umbellulata. |
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| Speckled Wood Lily (Clintonia umbellulata) |
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| I did find another plant that I had been looking for... Mountain Woodsorrel (Oxalis montana) |
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| The flowers were a little saturated from the rain. |
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| I also saw some nice One-flowered Cancer Root (Orobanche uniflora). Also a little soggy... |