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Cherry Cove Wildflowers & Search for Old Homesite Southern Nantahala Wilderness - April 10, 2019 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019) |
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Cherry Cove Wildflowers & Search for Old Homesite Southern Nantahala Wilderness - April 10, 2019 |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2019) |
| A trek from our house to not only check out the spring wildflower blooms around Cherry Cove, but to also look for the remains of an old home site over the NC line, that shows on the old 1903 topo maps. |
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| USFS Benchmark along the GA-NC state line. |
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| Dutchmans Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria) |
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| Cutleaf Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata) |
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| Large-flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora), with a bug. |
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| Common Violet (Viola soraria) |
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| Grape Fern, emerging from the forest floor |
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| Another Cutleaf Toothwort; this area is loaded with them. |
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| Rocky bed of a steep tributary of Cherry Cove Branch. |
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| Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia) in bud. |
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| There were lots of Vasey's Trillium (Trillium vaseyi) in bloom... |
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| Arriving at a flat area at the intersection of two creek branches, I noticed some groups of flowering plants that seemed out of place. I found this flat pile of rocks with a tree growing up through the center, which I believe was the chimney of the old home site I was looking for. Between the terrible lighting and the spring foliage, I think I need to explore this area further next winter. |
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| Showy Orchis orchid (Galearis spectabilis). Flowers are not yet fully open. |
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| I was about to rock-hop across a creek, and was eying my route when a Black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus) jumped up on one of my planned stepping stones. It looked a little worse for wear, missing its tail, etc. Not having my long lens, this image was greatly cropped from a photo taken from the opposite bank. |
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| Long-spurred Violet (Viola rostrata) |
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| Wild Geranium (Geranium maculata) |
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| Trillium grandiflorum, just opening |
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| Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) |
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| Trout Lily (Erythronium umbilicatum) |
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| Rue Anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) |
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| Sessile Bellwort (Uvularia sessilifolia) |
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| Sassafras flower (Sassafras albidum) |