Fall 2015-2017:
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Stiff Gentian (Gentiana quinquefolia)
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Turtlehead (Chelone glabra) - Fall 2016
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Creek cascade
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Emerging leaves of Puttyroot Orchid (Aplectrum hyemale)
These leaves will be gone by the time the orchid blooms next year.
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Big Leaf Aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
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Spring-Summer 2017:
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Puttyroot Orchid, aka Adam & Eve Orchid (Aplectrum hyemale)
These bloomed well in 2015,
but looked pretty bad in 2016. Fortunately 2017 was a good year.
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Puttyroot Orchid - flower detail
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Another flower detail
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I was looking for Turtleheads, and instead found a pair of orchids:
Club-spur Orchid, aka Woodland Orchid
(Platanthera clavellata)
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These were a little past their prime, with developing seed pods.
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Flower details
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More flower detail
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Fallen fruit of Fraser Magnolia (Magnolia fraseri)
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Snakewort, aka Cat-tongue Liverwort (Conocephalum salebrosum)
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Bedstraw (Galium aparine), growing in the creek bed
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Small cascades on Bell Creek
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Old still location
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Coral fungi (Claviroid fungi)
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Sweetshrub (Calycanthus) seedpod that woods mice got into.
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Fallen Fraser Magnolia fruits in Club Moss
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Beechdrops (Epifagus virginiana)
growing aptly enough in front of a Beech tree trunk.
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Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria mellea) and white bracket fungi
on a dead tree trunk.
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Turtlehead - early October 2017
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