Logo Spring Botanizing - May 2024
Tray Mountain, Chattahoochee Natl. Forest
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Last spring I visited this new (to me) spot that, in addition to the more common spring wildflowers, had a selection of Lady's Slippers, including Pinks and the two varieties of Yellows found in NE GA.   The site doesn't have large populations of any of these, but that made the hunt more fun, and finding the elusive flowers more rewarding.

I visited the site this year and couldn't find any of the Yellow LS plants that I had GPS-waypointed.   I soon found out why, finding a freshly dug hole at one of the locations.   Poachers are one of the more despicable forms of sub-humans, who take plants (and animals) from our public lands, for their own greedy desires at the expense of the rest of us.


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Cow Wheat   (Melampyrum lineare)


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Catesby's Trillium   (Trillium catesbaei)


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Small (Lesser) Yellow Lady's Slipper
(Cypripedium parviflorum var. parviflorum)



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I started out in a different area than the previous year,
so this was my first time seeing these.



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Small Yellow Lady's Slipper


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I soon came across a single
Pink Lady's Slipper   (Cypripedium acaule)



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Bear Corn   (Conopholis americana)


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Wild Sarsparilla   (Aralia nudicaulis)


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I soon caught another glimpse of pink in the distance...


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Pink Lady's Slipper


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Not far away was a
Large Yellow Lady's Slipper
(Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens)



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And behind it another Small Yellow Lady's Slipper.


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Small Yellow Lady's Slipper


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Vasey's Trillium   (Trillium vaseyi)


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Slender Toothwort   (Cardamine angustata)


Mayapple
Mayapple   (Podophyllum peltatum)


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Dug hole is all that remains of a poached Lady's Slipper.
The low-life MFers couldn't even bother filling in their hole.



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A few more Pink Lady's Slippers   (Cypripedium acaule):


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Another Catesby's Trillium   (Trillium catesbaei)


Anemone
Wood Anemone   (Anemonoides quinquefolia)


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Umbrella Leaf flowers   (Diphylleia cymosa)


Toad
Either a Fowler's Toad (Anaxyrus fowleri), or an
Eastern American Toad (Anaxyrus americanus americanus).
It jumped in front of me and hid in a stump crevice.




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