September 8th, 2012. A
cold front was passing through and it was gray and rainy but… We drove north
with the idea that we’d emerge behind the front and get some sunshine. We found
ourselves at the Wilson Shoals Wildlife Management Area that we’d visited
in July.
Unidentifed mushroom. These very small
mushrooms, barely two to three inches tall, were growing in a patch of moss and
lichen on an almost vertical embankment beside Hunt Camp Road.
A
closer view.
We
found Polygala curtissii (Curtiss’s Milkwort) blooming along the ridge in
several places beside Hunt Camp Road.
A
closer view of this milkwort flower.
Although
not formally documented as occurring Georgia, this looks remarkably like Rhododendron
carolinianum (Carolina Azalea). Some bushes had just a few blooms.
Eurybia
sp. (Eurybia surculosa – Creeping Aster?)
Lobelia
puberula (Downy Lobelia) with raindrops.
Hunt
Camp Road drops down into valley with a small creek. The area along the creek
is quite moist and we made some interesting finds.
Lithobates - formerly Rana - catesbeiana
(Bullfrog). When we got out of the truck, we heard a splash. Not expecting to
see anything we were surprised to see a bullfrog sitting in the water.
Monotropa hypopithys (Pinesap). There were a
few pinesap plants along the embankment above the creek. They weren’t, however,
as impressive as the plants we photographed at Dockery Lake.
Seed pods of Chimaphila maculata (Pipsissewa)
that had bloomed earlier.
Chantarellus cibarius (Golden Chantrelle) in
the leaf litter along the bank above the creek.
A small, leathery bracket fungus growing on an
exposed tree root above the creek.
A coral fungus, probably Ramaria botrytis.
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Identification
resources:
Southeastern
Flora:
Alan Cressler:
Distribution:
United
States Department of Agriculture Plants Database:
- Rhododendron carolinianum (Carolina Azalea)
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