1 - Late July, 2024
After spending an hour or two around Buck Creek,
I headed up to the FS Road west of Corundum Knob.
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Turk's Cap Lily (Lilium superbum)
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Turk's Cap Lilies (Lilium superbum)
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Turk's Cap Lily (Lilium superbum)
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Turk's Cap Lilies (Lilium superbum)
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Crisped Bunchflower (Melanthium hybridum)
They are reluctant bloomers, and the few populations
I have found only seem to bloom every 2-4 years.
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Crisped Bunchflower (Melanthium hybridum)
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Crisped Bunchflower - individual flower detail.
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Wild Hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens)
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Black Cohosh (Actaea racemosa)
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Carolina Phlox (Phlox carolina), with a daddy long legs.
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Pale Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
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2 - Early September, 2024
Spent a few hours along one of my favorite FS roads.
Didn't find anything I hadn't seen before, just some
late summer-blooming wildflower friends.
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Pale Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
deep yellow form
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Pale Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida)
pale white-yellow form
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Orange, or Spotted, Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
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Group of Pale Jewelweed
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Buffalo Nut (Pyrularia pubera)
This species parasitizes the roots of nearby trees.
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Southern Harebell, aka Appalachian Bellflower
(Campanula divaricata)
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Rattlesnake Root (Nabulus species)
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Goats Beard (Aruncus dioicus), gone to seed
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Great Lobelia (Lobelia siphilicata)
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Great Lobelia (Lobelia siphilicata)
White form growing among the more typical blue flowered plants.
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Mountain Black Cohosh (Actaea podocarpa)
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Mountain Purple Turtlehead (Chelone obliqua)
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Mountain Purple Turtlehead (Chelone obliqua)
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Scarlet Beebalm (Monarda Didyma)
In a huge group of these growing in a seepy area,
this was the only plant with any flowers remaining.
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Northern Horsebalm (Collinsonia canadensis)
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