Logo Mountain Bog GA3C - Spring-Summer 2020
Chattahoochee National Forest, GA
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A short visit on April 24th:

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Appalachian Phacelia   (Phacelia dubia)
The petals were still showing the effect of being soaked in this morning's downpour.



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This is the only location around here where I've come across this species.


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Pink Lady's Slippers   (Cypripedium acaule)
Showing a couple of last year's stalks / seed pods...



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Painted Trillium   (Trillium undulatum)


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Trillium amicalola


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Wild Geranium   (Geranium maculata)



A month later, I was in the area and decided to check out
the pitcher plants.   They were just coming into bloom...


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Purple Pitcher Plant   (Sarracenia purpurea subsp. venosa var. montana) - flower


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These were the only two flowers that had fully opened...



July 27th, 2020:

A visit with Alan C & Tom G to (hopefully) see the Platanthera peramoena in bloom...


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Eastern Swamp Milkweed   (Asclepias incarnata var. pulchra)
When we first arrived, the dew on these flowers almost looked like ice crystals...



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Eastern Swamp Milkweed
I had never seen as much of this blooming as we saw here today.



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Purple Fringeless Orchid   (Platanthera peramoena)
We only found a few; they weren't blooming nearly as well as last year.



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Purple Fringeless Orchid - flower detail
This species is extremely uncommon in Georgia



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Turk's Cap Lily   (Lilium superbum)


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Turk's Cap Lily


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Monkey Flower   (Mimulus ringens)


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Mimulus ringens - flower detail


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Marsh Bellflower   (Campanula aparinoides)
Now changed to Palustricodon aparinoides.



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A bee in St. John's Wort
Either Hypericum prolificum or H. densiflorum, I believe...



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Pitcher plants in bog habitat



I wondered if we had been too early for the P. peramoena, so I returned a week later.

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I did find one more of these orchids in flower.


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The one I photographed a week earlier was in much fuller bloom today.


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Carolina Lily   (Lilium michauxii)
These have several differences from the more common (around here) Turk's Cap Lilies.



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Carolina Lily


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Green Wood Orchid, aka Club Spur Orchid   (Platanthera clavellata)


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Platanthera clavellata


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Platanthera clavellata in habitat


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Flowering stalk of American Jumpseed (Persicaria virginiana)


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Leaves of American Jumpseed



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