February 2017
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Dried Pitcherplant flower from last year
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Dried Pitcher leaf
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April 2017
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Emerging pitcher plants, two weeks after the prescribed burn.
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Emerging fern fronds
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This Box Turtle immediately shut itself up upon my approach.
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Two Rosy Maple Moths (Dryocampa rubicunda)
I came across the oddest "flower" emerging from the ground - pink and yellow, just beautiful.
I thought to myself: "What in the world can this be?" Looking closer, I deduced that it was a
couple of moths clasping a new shoot, and apparently drying their wings.
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Back view of Rosy Maple Moth
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Mid May 2017
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Green Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia oreophila)
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Most of the plants were still in bud
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So the few that were flowering were very fresh!
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A nice pair of flowers
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Late May 2017
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Horned Bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta)
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Helmet Skullcap (Scutellaria integrifolia)
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White Colic Root (Aletris Farinosa)
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Colicroot detail
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Pitcherplant flower
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Nice group of Pitchers
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Some of the earliest bloomers were showing signs of going to seed.
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A pretty glade of ferns
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