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Spring 2025 Wildflowers - Part 2 Early Spring Ephemerals Clay County, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
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Spring 2025 Wildflowers - Part 2 Early Spring Ephemerals Clay County, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2025) |
| Back to the east side of Clay County, two weeks after my previous visit. I revisted one of my favorite higher-elevation rich coves for its annual rich explosion of spring ephemerals. April 21, 2025 1 - Chunky Gal - Yellow Mtn Area |
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| Squirrel Corn (Dicentra canadensis) |
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| Squirrel Corn Blooms were pretty abundant at mid-high elevations. |
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| Squirrel Corn |
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| Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) |
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| I was a little late for these and only found a few plants still in bloom. |
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| Carolina Spring Beauties (Claytonia caroliniana) |
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| Spring Beauty |
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| Yellow Mandarin, aka Yellow Fairybells (Prosartes lanuginosa) |
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| A group of Trillium grandiflorum |
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| Trillium grandiflorum, aging to pink flowers |
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| Canada Violets (Viola canadensis) |
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| Trillium erectum |
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| Trillium erectum, cream/white form |
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| Trillium erectum, red form |
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| Large-flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) |
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| Painted Trillium (Trillidium undulatum) |
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| Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) was still in bud. |
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| Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) This is long bloomed out at our place, but still going strong at higher elevations. |
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| Once a dammed pond, then more of a bog after the dam was breached, now a pond again thanks to beavers. |
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| 2 - A quick stop by the Buck Creek Area |
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| Eastern Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea) |
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| Eastern Indian Paintbrush |
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| Gaywings, aka Fringed Polygala (Polygaloides paucifolia) |
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| Gaywings These were just coming into flower, and I only found a few fully opened. |
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| Gaywings |
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| Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) |
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| 3 - A final stop near Glade Gap |
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| The Showy Orchis (Galearis spectabilis) at this elevation was just coming into bloom. |
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| Wood Betony (Pedicularis canadensis) |
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| Clump of Trillium grandiflorum |
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| Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) |