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August 2025 Wildflowers Clay County, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
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August 2025 Wildflowers Clay County, NC |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2024) |
| 1 - August 22, 2025 Prior to a visit to Buck Creek, I stopped by Riley Cove to see what late summer blooms were coming along. After some recent rains, I also saw many assorted fungi. |
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| This Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) greeted me upon my arrival. |
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| A yellow Bolete |
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| Cranefly Orchids (Tipularia discolor) are pretty much gone around our home, but they were still looking pretty good here. |
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| Maybe one of the Tooth mushrooms (Hydnellum sp.)? |
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| Hydnellum species? |
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| One of many Clavarioid-type fungi that I saw; I didn't try to identify them all. |
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| Unidentified mushrooms. |
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| More tiny unidentified mushrooms |
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| Southern Monkshood (Aconitum uncinatum) was just coming into bloom. |
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| I saw lots of buds, but only a few fully opened flowers. |
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| Scarlet Beebalm (Monarda didyma) was pretty much done for the year. Only a few plants had more than 1-2 petals remaining. |
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| Reindeer Lichen (Cladonia species) |
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| Fruits of the Speckled Wood Lily (Clintonia umbellulata) |
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| More Clavarioid fungi |
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| This might be one of the Hygrocybe species. |
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| Lobelia species |
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| Glade Spurge (Euphorbia purpurea) is only found at one location in Georgia, but gets slightly more abundant as one moves up the Appalachian range. |
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| Green Wood Orchid, aka Club-spur Orchid (Platanthera clavellata) Most I saw were already going to seed. |
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| But this one did still have flowers remaining. |
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| More Hygrocybes, perhaps Hygrocybe cantharellus(?) |
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| Spotted Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) |
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| Rosepink (Sabatia angularis) was on its way out and looking pretty raggedy here. |
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| Canada Mayflower (Maianthemum canadense) |