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Wildflower Excursions in the Wilderness May 2015 - Last of the Spring Ephemerals |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2015) |
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Wildflower Excursions in the Wilderness May 2015 - Last of the Spring Ephemerals |
All Text & Images: Copyright (2015) |
| (Note: Click here for the separate Purple Fringed Orchids page.) Putty-root Orchids, aka Adam & Eve Orchid (Aplectrum hyemale): |
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| Lots of other sightings, in addition to the Aplectrum orchids: |
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| Pink Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule) |
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| Four-leaved Milkweed (Asclepias quadrifolia) |
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| Water cascades |
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| Waterleaf (Hydrophyllum canadense) |
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| Mossy logs in creek bed |
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| Lady's Slipper |
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| Mountain Laurel and Flame Azalea |
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| Mayapple, or Mandrake (Podophyllum peltatum) |
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| Lady's Slipper |
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| Appalachian Bunchflower (Veratrum parviflorum) |
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| Flame Azalea |
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| Spring Head Seep |
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| Maple Eyespot Gall / Ocellate Maple Gall Midge (Acericecis Ocellaris) |
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| Vasey's Trillium (Trillium vaseyi) |
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| Emerald Moth (Nemoria sp.) |
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| Lady's Slipper |
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| Mountain Meadow Rue (Thalictrum clavatum) Also known as Brook Meadow Rue |
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| Flame Azalea |
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| Large seep area in creek |
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| End of the bloom season for Showy Orchis |
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| Likewise, the Vasey's Trilliums were on the way out |
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| Azaleas |
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| Spirobolid Millipede |
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| Flat-backed Millipede (Sigmoria trimaculata, or Cherokia georgiana) |