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Kimsey Bald - Mid-May 2024 Clay & Macon Counties, NC |
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Kimsey Bald - Mid-May 2024 Clay & Macon Counties, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
| With the spring ephemerals mostly bloomed out around our woods at home, I headed up to higher elevations on a rainy afternoon. The conditions were perfect for photography at this location I first explored in 2021. |
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| Speckled Wood Lily (Clintonia umbellulata) |
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| Buffalo Nut (Pyrularia pubera) In bud and flower... |
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| Small (Lesser) Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum) |
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| Trio of Yellow Lady's Slippers |
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| Yellow Lady's Slipper |
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| Two Lady's Slippers on one stalk |
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| Wood Betony (Pedicularis canadensis) There was tons of this all over the mountain. |
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| Another Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum) |
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| Pair of Lady's Slippers |
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| Yellow Lady's Slipper |
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| Pair on same stem |
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| A pair of Pink Lady's Slippers (Cypripedium acaule) |
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| A nice group of Pink Lady's Slippers |
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| Trio of Lady's Slippers |
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| Pink Lady's Slippers in Wood Betony |
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| Another group of Pink Lady's Slippers (Cypripedium acaule) |
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| Bear Corn (Conopholis americana) |
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| Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) These were so brilliantly colored that when I first spotted them from a distance, I thought it was a small flame azalea! |
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| Indian Cucumber Root (Medeola virginiana) |
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| Solomon's Plume (Maianthemum racemosum) |