A short visit on April 24th:
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Appalachian Phacelia (Phacelia dubia)
The petals were still showing the effect of being soaked in this morning's downpour.
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This is the only location around here where I've come across this species.
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Pink Lady's Slippers (Cypripedium acaule)
Showing a couple of last year's stalks / seed pods...
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Painted Trillium (Trillium undulatum)
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Trillium amicalola
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Wild Geranium (Geranium maculata)
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A month later, I was in the area and decided to check out
the pitcher plants. They were just coming into bloom...
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Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea subsp. venosa var. montana) - flower
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These were the only two flowers that had fully opened...
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July 27th, 2020:
A visit with Alan C & Tom G to (hopefully) see the Platanthera peramoena in bloom...
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Eastern Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata var. pulchra)
When we first arrived, the dew on these flowers almost looked like ice crystals...
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Eastern Swamp Milkweed
I had never seen as much of this blooming as we saw here today.
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Purple Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera peramoena)
We only found a few; they weren't blooming nearly as well as last year.
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Purple Fringeless Orchid - flower detail
This species is extremely uncommon in Georgia
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Turk's Cap Lily (Lilium superbum)
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Turk's Cap Lily
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Monkey Flower (Mimulus ringens)
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Mimulus ringens - flower detail
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Marsh Bellflower (Campanula aparinoides)
Now changed to Palustricodon aparinoides.
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A bee in St. John's Wort
Either Hypericum prolificum or H. densiflorum, I believe...
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Pitcher plants in bog habitat
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I wondered if we had been too early for the P. peramoena, so I returned a week later.
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I did find one more of these orchids in flower.
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The one I photographed a week earlier was in much fuller bloom today.
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Carolina Lily (Lilium michauxii)
These have several differences from the more common (around here) Turk's Cap Lilies.
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Carolina Lily
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Green Wood Orchid, aka Club Spur Orchid (Platanthera clavellata)
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Platanthera clavellata
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Platanthera clavellata in habitat
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Flowering stalk of American Jumpseed (Persicaria virginiana)
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Leaves of American Jumpseed
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