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Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Seepage Fen Spring-Summer-Fall 2022 (ES) |
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Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Seepage Fen Spring-Summer-Fall 2022 (ES) |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2022) |
| 1 - Mid May, 2022: Coming home from another site, I made a quick stop to check on the pitchers... |
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| Green Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia oreophila) This part of the population seemed to be considerably diminished this spring. |
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| Green Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia oreophila) |
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| Green Pitcher Plants |
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| Green Pitcher flowers |
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| Pitcher plant flower |
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| Green Pitcher Plant blooms |
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| Someone had dumped a bunch of vegetative waste onto the fern glade. |
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| A portion of the dumped vegetative waste... |
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| 2 - Mid June, 2022: I wanted to check the status of the Bladderworts. |
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| Horned Bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta) |
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| Horned Bladderwort in habitat |
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| These are one of my favorite carnivorous plants to encounter. |
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| Horned Bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta) |
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| Yellow-eyed Grass (Xyris sp.) Xyris jupicai and X. torta were reported from this site in the 1990s. |
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| 3 - Early September, 2022: I was hoping to see some Spiranthes, but there were none to be found this year. |
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| Cross-leaf Milkwort (Polygala cruciata) |
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| Meadow Beauty (Rhexia virginica) |
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| Purple Gerardia (Agalinis purpurea) |
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| A young Calico Pennant (Celithemis elisa) dragonfly. |
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| Canada Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis) |