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A Couple of Late Spring 2026 Visits Dickenson Branch Botanical Area, Rabun Co., GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2026) |
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A Couple of Late Spring 2026 Visits Dickenson Branch Botanical Area, Rabun Co., GA |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2026) |
| 1 - May 22, 2026 On my way back from a short trip to Toccoa, I stopped by to see if the Small Spreading Pogonia might be blooming. As I suspected, I was a little early. |
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| Small Spreading Pogonia, in bud (Cleistesiopsis bifaria) |
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| Small-leaf Meadow-rue, aka Piedmont Meadow-rue (Thalictrum macrostylum) |
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| Whorled Loosestrife (Lysimachia quadrifolia) |
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| These were just in tiny bud when I led the BotSoc field trips here three weeks earlier. |
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| 2 - June 5, 2026 The second stop on a two-site botanizing foray with Wes Hatch, hoping to find the Speading Pogonias in bloom. |
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| Small Spreading Pogonia (Cleistesiopsis bifaria) |
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| Small Spreading Pogonia |
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| Small Spreading Pogonia We found 9 blooming stalks, plus two more where the flowers had been chewed off. We also saw about 25 vegetative (non-flowering) plants. |
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| Small Spreading Pogonia |
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| Small Spreading Pogonia (Cleistesiopsis bifaria) |
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| New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus americanus) with a beetle pollinator. |
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| Vasevine (Clematis viorna), with a few in bud, another gone to seed. Recent work within the Clematis viorna complex has resulted in several new species being identified. This may be C. beadlei. |
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| Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium) |
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| Pipsissewa, aka Striped Wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata) |