My initial Fall 2017 visit, in early September:
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Appalachian Oak Leach (Aureolaria laevigata)
Sometimes called Yellow or Smooth False Foxglove.
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Blue-flower Eryngo (Eryngium integrifolium)
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New York Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis)
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Nursery Web Spider (Pisaurina mira) on
Canada Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)
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Lobelia species (possibly L. amoena)
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Sweat Bee approaching Southern Monkshood (Aconitum uncinatum)
Monkshood is always one of my favorite fall wildflowers.
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Bee entering Monkshood
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Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta)
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Mid-Late September:
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Kidney-leaf Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia asarifolia)
The more common of the two Parnassia species here...
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Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina)
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Large-leaf Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia grandifolia)
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Spotted Jewelweed, aka Orange Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
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Beautiful white form of this typically blue Lobelia species
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Purple Gerardia, aka Purple False Foxglove (Agalinis purpurea)
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One of the purple Asters (Symphyotrichum sp.)
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Canada Burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)
Ranked S-1, Critically Imperiled in Georgia.
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Cowbane (Oxypolis rigidior)
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Another Blue Lobelia (perhaps Lobelia amoena?)
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Late September:
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Nodding Ladies' Tresses (Spiranthes cernua)
Perhaps with a bit of S. magnicamporum in their bloodline...
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A very cool lichen - Cladonia cervicornis ssp verticillata
Mature thalli of this grey-green Stacking Cup Cladonia are visually striking with
tiers of cups stacked one on the other growing from the centre of the cup below.
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Stiff Gentian (Gentianella quinquefolia)
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A couple of Parnassia asarifolia flowers
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Parnassia asarifolia group
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Monkshood
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Pair of Parnassia grandifolia
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Parnassia grandifolia in habitat
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Sneezeweed (Helenium sp.)
probably H. autumnale...
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Crab Spider in Lobelia
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Jack in the Pulpit berries
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Giant European Hornet (Vespa crabro)
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