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Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Seepage Fen Spring 2025 (ES) |
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Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Seepage Fen Spring 2025 (ES) |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
| 1 - May 7, 2025: I stopped by our two local Nature Conservancy Preserves to check on the endangered Green Pitcher Plants, among others. Overall they were looking good. They were a little behind their usual flowering time; lots of buds but only a handful of blooms so far. |
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| Green Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia oreophila) |
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| Green Pitcher Plant flower |
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| Green Pitcher Plant flower |
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| 2 - May 30, 2025: After photographing Cleistesiopsis bifaria over in Gumlog, I stopped by to monitor things here, since it was practically on my way home. |
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| There were a lot more Pitcher Plants in bloom than earlier in the month, although the petals had already dried on many. |
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| But there were still some nice fresh flowers. |
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| Green Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia oreophila) Another relatively fresh flower... |
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| Spoonleaf Sundew (Drosera intermedia) |
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| Spoonleaf Sundew (Drosera intermedia) With a few flower buds... |
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| White Colicroot (Aletris Farinosa) |
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| 3 - June 18, 2025: On a late afternoon between showers, I thought I'd go over and see if the Bog Candles were blooming. |
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| Bog Candle (Lysimachia terrestris) It wasn't a great year here for blooms of this species, probably due to all the rain and lack of sunny days. Most of the influorescences were small like this; not the lengthy torch-like racemes that I've seen in other years. |
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| Bog Candle (Lysimachia terrestris) This was the only example I found of the lengthy racemes that I can usually find here, and unfortunately it was about bloomed out |
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| Woodland Flax (Linum virginianum) |
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| Spoon-leaf Sundews (Drosera intermedia) |
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| Ten-angled Pipewort, aka Hatpin (Eriocaulon decangulare) |
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| Horned Bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta) |
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| Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) |
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| Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata) There were a lot of these flitting around here, but they didn't like me getting anywhere near them. |