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Kimsey Bald - Mid-late May 2025 Clay & Macon Counties, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
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Kimsey Bald - Mid-late May 2025 Clay & Macon Counties, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| After an afternoon closer to home, monitoring GA's only Platanthera herbiola site, and then surveying an Isotria medeoloides population, I decided to make my semi-annual visit to Kimsey Bald. Since I'd already done a good amount of walking, and in the interest of time, I decided to concentrate on the mid slopes and not climb to the summit on this visit. |
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| I had to take my usual photo of the old bus and trailer, which continue to slowly deteriorate. |
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| Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) |
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| Flower of Solomon's Plume (Maianthemum racemosum) |
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| Small (Lesser) Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum) |
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| A pair of Yellow Lady's Slippers |
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| Four Yellow Lady's Slippers I was here eight days later than in 2024, and many of the LS flowers were already spent. Only the one in the rear was half decent. |
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| Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis) |
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| Large Yellow Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens) |
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| A trio of Small Yellow Lady's Slippers |
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| Cow Wheat (Melampyrum lineare) |
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| Does a bear... ? |