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Wildflower Treks - 2022 Southern Nantahala Wilderness Area |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2022) |
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Wildflower Treks - 2022 Southern Nantahala Wilderness Area |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2022) |
| Early April, 2022 A Facebook memory reminded me that it was the time of the year for ramps, so I headed up the mountain... |
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| A nice little waterfall, along the way... |
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| Flowers of Eastern Leatherwood (Dirca palustris) This species doesn't seem to be common; this was the first time I had photographed it. |
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| Golden Ragwort (Packera aurea) This grows like a weed along the creek banks. |
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| Bear Corn (Conopholis americana) |
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| Rue Anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides) |
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| The ramps were doing great. I practice sustainable harvesting, cutting just one leaf per plant and leaving the roots. |
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| Cutleaf Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata), growing among the ramps. The flowers are usually white but some are pink-tinged like these. |
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| Mossy rocks in a small creek branch... |
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| I always like Bloodroot flowers as they begin to open. These and the Cutleaf Toothworts were the most prevalent wildflower blooming at the higher elevations. |
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| Showy Orchis (Galearis spectabilis) were just starting to poke out of the leaf mulch. |
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| There's not much flat land up in these mountains! The creek eventually flows by our place... |
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| Yellow-green form of Trillium cuneatum. |