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Chunky Gal Trail, Glade Branch vicinity Wildflowers & more - Spring 2020 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2020) |
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Chunky Gal Trail, Glade Branch vicinity Wildflowers & more - Spring 2020 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2020) |
Botanical finds along the Chunky Gal Trail from Glade Gap, including a rare sighting of a seldom seen plant in bloom. May 2020: |
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| Mountain Meadow Rue (Thalictrum clavatum) |
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| Umbrella Leaf (Diphylleia cymosa) |
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| Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) I don't see these often, but they are in large patches when I do find them. |
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| White, or Speckled, Wood Lily (Clintonia umbellulata) |
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| Speckled Wood Lily |
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| Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) |
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| Yellow Mandarin (Prosartes lanuginosa) |
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| A trio of Trillium grandiflorum. |
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| White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda) |
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| Rosy Twisted Stalk (Streptopus lanceolatus) |
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| Uncommon in the Southeast, I had only seen this plant once before... |
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| Rosy Twisted Stalk, flower detail. |
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| Rosy Twisted Stalk |
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| Foliage of Rosy Twisted Stalk |
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| Another Canada Mayflower |
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| I could still find a few fresh Showy Orchis (Galearis spectabilis). |
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| A nice trio of White Baneberry |
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| One-flowered Cancer Root (Orobanche uniflora, syn Aphyllon uniflorum) This was the 2nd location I had seen these tiny parasitic plants in the past two weeks. |
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| Late May, 2020 I made a short visit after an exploration at Corundum Knob, and found a species that I had never seen before.: |
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| Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis) |
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| Wild Sarsaparilla |