August
4th, 2012. We’ve spent a lot of time along a single road in
the Scull Shoals Experimental Forest in Greene County, Georgia. We decided to
explore the roads north and east of here in the Oconee National Forest that includes both Greene and Oglethorpe counties. Given
how dry it’s been this year, we found quite a variety of flowers.
Carolina Elephantsfoot (Elephantopus carolinianus)
Pencil
flower (Stylosanthes biflora)
A bee fly
St. Peter's wort (Hypericum crux-andreae)
Hoarymountainmint
(Pycnanthemum incanum) with a friend
Amberique-bean (Strophostyles helvola)
Sweet everlasting
(Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium). These are were just starting to bloom.
Spurred Butterfly Pea
(Centrosema virginianum)
Carolina thistle (Cirsium carolinianum)
Rosepink (Sabatia angularis). We found only one plant.
Yellow Buckeye (Aesculus
flava)? The nuts look like Asculus
flava.
Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes tharos) on
Lance Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
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