Sessile Bellwort – Native Plant of the Day 04/30/2024
Photo from 04/30/2010. Location: Rabun County, Ga.
More photos / info at the Uvularia sessilifolia detail page.
Sessileleaf Bellwort, Wild Oats – Uvularia sessilifolia
Mountain Bellwort – Native Plant of the Day 04/29/2024
Photo from 4/20/2016. Location: GSMNP, Schoolhouse Gap Trail, Blount County, TN
More photos / info at the Uvularia puberula detail page.
Mountain Bellwort – Uvularia puberula
Large-Flowered Bellwort – Native Plant of the Day 04/03/2024
Photo from 04/02/008. Location: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, Ga.
More photos / info at the Uvularia grandiflora detail page.
Large-flowered Bellwort – Uvularia grandiflora
It had only been 5 days since we were last at The Pocket, but I ran across some published information about the particular subspecies of Trout Lily at that location a couple of days ago, and I wanted photographs of the identifying characteristics. And it was another beautiful day today, so I headed down there in the early afternoon. I counted 33 species blooming, naturally mostly the same as five days earlier. I also made a run around to the east side of Pigeon Mountain.
Purple Phacelia, Fernleaf Phacelia – Phacelia bipinnatifida
It had been 10 days during the ‘peak development period’ of wildflowers at The Pocket since I’d last been there, and nearly a month since my only “full inventory” of the season (5 species). It was a beautiful (if chilly) day today, so I headed down there for a more leisurely visit. Definitely worthwhile, and if you want to see the Dutchmen’s Breeches this year, better get there soon. That being said, I counted 29 species blooming.
Large-flowered Bellwort – Uvularia grandiflora
Questions in my head about identification of the yellow Violet drove me back down to The Pocket today. I’ve decided I’m going with Viola pubescens var. scabriuscula – Smooth Yellow Violet (syn. Viola eriocarpa and Viola pensylvanica among others. ) But there were a couple of noteworthy additional species to last Friday’s list. Firstly, the first of the Wood Poppies (Celandine Poppy) have started to bloom.
Wood Poppy – Stylophorum diphyllum
Mountain Bellwort, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (05/18/2016.) Scientific name is Uvularia puberula. Photo below was taken along the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Schoolhouse Gap Trail, Blount County, TN on April 20, 2016. Go to the Mountain Bellwort detail page for more information.
Mountain Bellwort – Uvularia puberula
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.)
Wideleaf Spiderwort – Tradescantia subaspera along Mill Creek Road
Native Plant of the Day 05/13/2013
Photo from April 13, 2010. Location: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, Ga.
Perfoliate Bellwort – for more photos / info go to the Uvularia perfoliata detail page.
Perfoliate Bellwort, Merry Bells – Uvularia perfoliata
Last week we reported that the Dutchman’s Breeches were very close to blooming. My wife and I didn’t want to miss that relatively brief bloom period, so we headed back down there today to check on them. I’ll let the picture below tell the story.
Dutchman’s Breeches – Dicentra cucullaria – about 10 plants are blooming.
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