Jun 20 2015
Here are some photographs taken at Tigg’s Pond Retreat Center in Zirconia, North Carolina on 20 June 2015 during their Solstice Arts Open House.
May 30 2015
Canada Mayflower [Maianthemum canadense] found near the Blue Ridge Parkway, milepost 437, Glassy Mine Overlook, along the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, on 30 May 2015. It’s a member of the Lily (Liliaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 130-131, says its flowers bloom in spring. It’s also named Wild Lily-of-the-valley.
USDA Plants Listing: Maianthemum canadense
Canada Mayflower near Glassy Mine Overlook, BRP – 30 May 2015
May 30 2015
White Clintonia [Clintonia umbellulata] found near the Blue Ridge Parkway, milepost 437, Glassy Mine Overlook, along the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, on 30 May 2015. It’s a member of the Lily (Liliaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 338-339, says its flowers bloom in spring and early summer.
USDA Plants Listing: Clintonia umbellulata
White Clintonia near Glassy Mine Overlook – 30 May 2015
White Clintonia (entire) – 30 May 2015
May 25 2015
Nodding Plumeless Thistle[Carduus nutans] near the railroad tracks on Old Airport Road in Fletcher, North Carolina on 16 June 2013 and 25 May 2015. It’s a member of the Aster (Asteraceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 430-431, says blooms in summer and fall, and that it grows on roadsides and in waste places.
USDA Plants Listing: Carduus nutans
Nodding Plumeless Thistle on Old Airport Road – 16 June 2013
Nodding Plumeless Thistle (after bloom) – 16 June 2013
What fearful symmetry – 25 May 2015
Fascination with Thistle – 25 May 2015
May 10 2015
Heartleaf Foamflower [Tiarella cordifolia] found in Pisgah National Forest on 10 May 2015. It’s a member of the Saxifrage (Saxifragaceae) family that blooms in spring. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 178-179, states it grows in rich woods.
USDA Plants Listing: Tiarella cordifolia
Heartleaf Foamflower – 10 May 2015
Heartleaf Foamflower (leaves) – 10 May 2015
May 05 2015
Miami Mist or Fringed Phacelia [Phacelia purshii] found in, Franklin, North Carolina on 5 May 2015. It’s a member of the Waterleaf (Hydrophyllaceae) family that blooms in spring. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 234-235, states it grows in rich woods and fields. These were found near a stream of water at the Macon County Recreation Park. Wikipedia states, “It is a member of the Phacelia genus, which used to be considered part of the Hydrophyllaceae family, but is now (as of 2013) placed within Boraginaceae.”
USDA Plants Listing: Phacelia purshii
Miami Mist or Fringed Phacelia – 5 May 2015
Miami Mist (More) – 5 May 2015
Apr 30 2015
Yellow Thistle [Cirsium horridulum] found in, Franklin, North Carolina on 30 April 2015. It’s a member of the Aster (Asteraceae or Compositae) family that blooms in spring. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 430-431, states it grows in fields, meadows, and borders of salt marshes. Pam Forey’s American Nature Guides: Wildflowers states on page 185: “The flowers are usually yellow but may be purple, especially on plants growing in the south or further inland.”
USDA Plants Listing: Cirsium horridulum
Yellow Thistle (side) in Franklin, NC – 30 April 2015
Yellow Thistle – 30 April 2015
Yellow Thistle (full side) – 30 April 2015
Apr 11 2015
Mayapple or Mandrake [Podophyllum peltatum] found on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail near the Folk Art Center on 11 April 2015. It’s a member of the Bayberry (Berberidaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 354-355, says that it’s found in rich woods and pastures in Spring.
USDA Plants Listing: Podophyllum peltatum
Mayapple (leaves) – 11 April 2015
Mayapple (three different leaves) – 11 April 2015
Mayapple on Troy Hill Drive – 21 April 2015
Mayapple – 22 April 2015
May-Apple How to Know the Wildflowers p15
Apr 11 2015
Wild Oats or Sessileleaf Bellwort [Uvularia sessilifolia] found on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail near the Folk Art Center on 11 April 2015. It’s a member of the Lily (Liliaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 340-341, says that it’s common in woods and thickets in Spring. It has a clasping leaf that is not pierced by the stem.
USDA Plants Listing: Uvularia sessilifolia
Sessileleaf Bellwort near the Folk Art Center – 11 April 2015
Sessileleaf Bellwort (at twilight) – 11 April 2015
Bellwort Illustrations -How to Know the Wild Flowers, page 151
Mar 26 2015
Toadshade [Trillium sessile] found on Troy Hill Circle, Fletcher, North Carolina on 26 & 28 March 2015. It’s a member of the Lily (Liliaceae) family that blooms in spring. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 124-125, states it grows in rich woods, and lists an alternate name of Toad Trillium. The mottling on the leaves is like that of a toad, and hence its name. It looks very similar to Little Sweet Betsy, Trillium cuneatum listed in Wildflowers of the Carolinas on pages 204-205.
USDA Plants Listing: Trillium sessile
Toadshade (closer) – 28 March 2015
Toadshade – 26 March 2015
Toadshade – 28 March 2015
