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Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Seepage Fen Spring 2025 (RBM) |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
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Southern Appalachian Low Mountain Seepage Fen Spring 2025 (RBM) |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| 1 - Early May, 2025: I made my first visit of the year to RBWM with David Best, following a stop at Eller Seep. The goal at both sites was to monitor how the Green Pitcher Plants were coming along. Overall they looked good, although a little behind their historical flowering time - lots of buds but only a handful of blooms so far. |
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| The first prescribed burn in three years had been conducted here earlier in the spring. |
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| As mentioned, only a few of the Green Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia oreophila) had flowered so far. I only took a couple of pics, having photographed these conditions many times in prior years. |
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| 2 - Early June, 2025: I visited RBWM for my annual monitoring of the Ragged Fringed Orchids (Platanthera lacera). Like many orchids, they have bountiful years and sparse years. This was the latter, although I have seen worse here. |
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| Ragged Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) |
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| Ragged Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) |
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| Ragged Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) showing detail of flower raceme. |
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| Ragged Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera) |
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| Helmet Skullcap (Scutellaria integrifolia) I think I've got the species right... |
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| Colicroot (Aletris farinosa) |
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| Butterfly-weed Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa) |
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| Hemp Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum), in bud. |