April 13th, 2013. It was
clear from our trip to Boggs Creek RecreationArea in the Chestatee Wildlife Management in Lumpkin County on March 30th
that this would be an interesting place to follow through the Spring wildflower
season. Particularly, a couple of developing wildflowers – a trillium and a
plant with fern-like leaves – had piqued our interest and we wanted to identify
them. We crossed the road to where we had seen the Viola hastata plants in
bloom to see if there were new wildflowers in bloom.
Iris
This looks like a dwarf
iris but time will tell.
We found a patch of iris plants had emerged during the
previous two weeks.
An individual plant.
Tiarella cordifolia (Heartleaf
Foamflower, Foamflower, Mountain Foamflower,
False Miterwort)
Young buds
Just starting to open; none of the flowers has opened fully.
Flowers at the bottom of the spike have opened.
A closer view of individual flowers
The leaves of most plants were an even green but a leaves of some plants had darker patches at their centers.
Pedicularis canadensis (Canadian Lousewort, Lousewort, Wood Betony, Eastern Lousewort,
Fernleaf)
The ‘native’ form of this species has cream flowers; a form with
maroon flowers is a variant of this species.
Most of the flowers we found were deep maroon, whereas some were
Intermediate between the original cream form and the deep maroon form.
An individual flower
From here we drove up to the end of the road…
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Identification Resources:
Southeastern Flora
Natural
and Naturalized Plants of the Carolinas and Georgia:
Distribution:
United
States Department of Agriculture Plants Database:
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