Mountain Bog GA3C Summer 2024 Chattahoochee National Forest, GA |
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We held a GPCA site management and plant monitoring work day here, with the timing scheduled to hopefully catch some rare Platanthera peramoena in bloom. Late July, 2024: |
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Purple Fringeless Orchid (Platanthera peramoena) We found five plants in flower, several at a new location. |
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Purple Fringeless Orchid |
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Eastern Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata var. pulchra) |
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Allegheny Monkey Flower (Mimulus ringens) |
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Marsh Bellflower (Palustricodon aparinoides) Was Campanula aparinoides. |
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Green Wood Orchid, aka Club Spur Orchid (Platanthera clavellata) |
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Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea subsp. venosa var. montana) |
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Purple Pitcher Plant At this point, the flowers were going to seed... |
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Purple Pitcher Plant |
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American Jumpseed (Persicaria virginiana) |
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American Jumpseed - flowering stalk |