May 27 2017
Bowman’s Root or Indian Physic [Gillenia trifoliata] photos were taken on the North Carolina Bartram Trailon 27 May 2017. It’s a member of the Rose (Rosaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 232-233, states that it grows in woods in Late Spring and Summer. It is also called “Fawn’s Breath.”
USDA Plants Listing: Gillenia trifoliata
Bowman’s Root – 27 May 2017
Bowman’s Root (pull back) – 27 May 2017
Bowman’s Root (bunch) – 27 May 2017
May 27 2017
Speckled Wood Lily or White Clintonia [Clintonia umbellulata] photos were taken on the North Carolina Bartram Trailon 27 May 2017. It’s a member of the Lily (Liliaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 338-339, states that it grows in rich woods in Spring and early Summer. Timothy P. Spira’s Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains & Piedmont, pages 322-323, states “various birds and small mammals seek out speckled wood lily’s fruits and disperse the seeds.”
USDA Plants Listing: Clintonia umbellulata
Speckled Wood Lily – 27 May 2017
Speckled Wood Lily (zoom out) – 27 May 2017
Speckled Wood Lily (side) – 27 May 2017
Speckled Wood Lily (leaves) – 27 May 2017
May 27 2017
Cliff Saxifrage or Michaux’s Saxifrage [Saxifraga michauxii] photos were taken on the North Carolina Bartram Trailon 27 May 2017 and at Carl Sandburg Home on 28 May 2017. It’s a member of the Saxifrage (Saxifragaceae) family. Timothy P. Spira’s Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains & Piedmont, page 403, states that it flowers April through August and “it’s an early colonizer of landslide scars and bare rock surfaces” on “moist to rather dry rock outcrops.” The scientific synonym given in that text is Micranthes petiolaris.
USDA Plants Listing: Saxifraga michauxii
Cliff Saxifrage – 27 May 2017
Cliff Saxifrage (alt) – 27 May 2017
Cliff Saxifrage (leaves) – 27 May 2017
Cliff Saxifrage (leaves) – 28 May 2017
May 14 2017
Yellow Wood-Sorrel [Oxalis stricta] photos were taken at the North Carolina Arboretum, in Asheville, on 14 May 2017. It’s a member of the Wood-Sorrel (Oxalidaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 246-247, states that it blooms from Spring to Fall and is a “common weed of gardens and roadsides.”
USDA Plants Listing: Oxalis stricta
Yellow Wood-Sorrel – 14 May 2017
Yellow Wood-Sorrel (other) 14 May 2017
Yellow Wood-Sorrel Leaves- 14 May 2017
Apr 16 2017
Rue Anemone[Anemonella thalictroides] photos were taken on the Mountains-to-Sea trail between the Blue Ridge Parkway Folk Art Center and Visitor’s Center on 16 April 2017. It’s the member of the Buttercup (Ranunculaceae) family. Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 392-3, states it’s a “delicate spring flower” that is found in open woods. It can have 5-10 petallike sepals.
USDA Plants Listing: Anemonella thalictroides
Rue Anemone on the MST – 16 AprIl 2017
Rue Anemone – 16 April 2017
Rue Anemone (zoom out) – 16 April 2017
Apr 14 2017
Woodland Violets [Viola] found at Givens Estates on 14 April 2017 and in Gerton, North Carolina on 15 April 2017.
Woodland Violets at Givens Estates – 14 April 2017
White Violet – 15 April 2017
Violets in Gerton – 15 April 2017
Yellow Violet – 15 April 2017
Mar 06 2017
These photos of Periwinkle [Vinca Minor] were taken on 16 March 2013 and 5 March 2017. The older photos were from Fletcher Park.Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, pages 256-257, says this is another cultivated flower escaped to roadsides and woods, which is where it was found. Common Periwinkle or Myrtle is a member of the Dogbane (Apocynaceae) family.
USDA Plants Listing: Vinca Minor
Periwinkle – 5 March 2017
Periwinkles – 16 Mar 2013
More Periwinkles – 16 Mar 2013
Feb 11 2017
Sewerage Access Cover – Buncombe County, Asheville, North Carolina – 11 February 2017
Utility Cover – 11 February 2017
Jan 17 2017
Office Art – 17 January 2017
ARA Painting – 17 January 2017
Jan 14 2017
Post-Holidays 2017 – New Belgium Brewery, Asheville, North Carolina
At New Belgium – 14 Jan 2017
