Native Plant of the Day 05/27/2014
Photo from June 7, 2009. Location: Walker County, Ga.
Carolina Horse Nettle – for more photos / info go to the Solanum carolinense detail page.
Native Plant of the Day 05/27/2014
Photo from June 7, 2009. Location: Walker County, Ga.
Carolina Horse Nettle – for more photos / info go to the Solanum carolinense detail page.
Yellow Ladyslipper, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (5/25/2014.) Scientific name is Cypripedium parviflorum. Photo below was taken in Murray County, GA on May 15, 2014. Go to the Yellow Ladyslipper detail page for more photos and information.
Native Plant of the Day 05/22/2014
Photo from April 18, 2010. Location: Walker County, Ga.
Carolina Wild Petunia- for more photos / info go to the Ruellia caroliniensis detail page.
Woolly Head Clover, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (5/18/2014.) Scientific name is Trifolium eriocephalum. Photo below was taken in Custer County, ID on June 13, 2010. Go to the Woolly Head Clover detail page for more photos and information.
Native Plant of the Day 05/17/2014
Photo from June 6, 2009. Location: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA.
Heartleaf Skullcap – for more photos / info go to the Scutellaria ovata detail page.
Grassy Mountain is a 3600’+ peak in Murray County, Georgia, just outside the southwest corner of the Cohutta Wilderness. It’s probably best known as the home of Conasauga Lake, which at 3150′ is the highest lake in Georgia. It is formed by a small dam on the headwaters of Mill Creek. I’d spent a lot of time in and around the Cohutta Wilderness in the 90’s, but hadn’t been back much since then, so when I got an email last week from Mike Christison of the Georgia Botanical Society where he mentioned he’d seen Yellow Ladyslippers blooming on Grassy Mountain in the past, and that they were recently blooming at a much lower elevation, I figured this would be a great time for a return trip to the area. In spite of the cool temperatures, wind, and occasional rain, it WAS a great time; my wife and I identified (at least to a genus level) 37 40 different wildflower species in bloom, including this Wideleaf Spiderwort (Tradescantia subaspera.)
Antelope-Horn Milkweed, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (5/13/2014.) Scientific name is Asclepias viridis. Photo below was taken in a Chickamauga Battlefield, Catoosa County, Ga on May 12, 2014. Go to the Antelope-Horn Milkweed detail page for more photos and information.
Based on classification listed in ITIS and as now specified in Weakley’s Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States (2012), where Asclepiadaceae has been combined into Apocynaceae, I have changed the family classification of the Asclepias species included on USWildflowers.com accordingly:
Nashville Breadroot, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (5/12/2014.) Scientific name is Pediomelum subacaule. Photo below was taken in a Chickamauga Battlefield Cedar Glade, Catoosa County, Ga on April 29, 2014. Go to the Nashville Breadroot detail page for more photos and information.
Miami Mist, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (5/10/2014.) Scientific name is Phacelia purshii. Photo below was taken on the east side of Pigeon Mountain in Walker County, GA on May 2, 2014. Go to the Miami Mist detail page for more photos and information.