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Mountain Bog GA3C Summer 2026 Chattahoochee National Forest, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2026) |
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Mountain Bog GA3C Summer 2026 Chattahoochee National Forest, GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2026) |
| We had a GPCA work day with two goals - grooming & clearing around the pitcher plant and helonias micro-sites, and searching for & monitoring the Platanthera peramoena. Late July, 2026: |
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| Purple Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera peramoena) The plants are very scattered, and we only found 5 blooming stalks. |
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| Purple Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera peramoena) Only a handful of small populations of this species remain in Georgia. |
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| Allegheny Monkey Flower (Mimulus ringens) A wetland flower, not rare, but not common either. |
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| Bee pollinator flying in at another flower. |
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| Marsh Bellflower (Palustricodon aparinoides, formerly Campanula aparinoides) I'm not aware of any other occurrences of this species in Georgia. |
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| Azalea Caterpillar Moths (Datana major) I don't recall seeing these large caterpillars before. |
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| Turquoise Elfcups (Chlorociboria species) |
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| I also wanted to visit a nearby site to look for a lily that I'd found about 5 years ago, but had never been able to catch in flower. I kept my fingers crossed, and managed to find it in perfect bloom. |
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| Carolina Lily (Lilium michauxii) I finally caught this plant in beautiful flower! |
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| Carolina Lily (Lilium michauxii) - entire plant. Not rare, but less common than Lilium superbum. It's the only fragrant lily east of the Rocky Mtns! |
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| Large Whorled Pogonia (Isotria verticillata) with seed pod. Another population that I keep failing to catch in bloom. Even though these are not tracked in GA, I find them less common than the I. medeoloides. |
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| Spindle Fungi (Clavulinopsis species) |