April 24th, 2015. We take a road
trip to Wilkes County at least four times each year. W volunteers to monitor
frog species diversity and numbers on a prescribed route in the county. We take
the opportunity to visit different places in the county before we ‘run the frog
route’ after dark. Usually, these include…
two swamps on Enoch John Road,
Fishing Creek Wildlife Management Area (WMA) and the Broad River WMA; we return
to the beginning of the route via Pistol Creek.
We left the swamps on Enoch John
Road and drove down Jones Chapel Road to Fishing Creek Wildlife Management Area
(WMA).
We left Fishing Creek Wildlife
Management Area (WMA) and drove north along Ohara Standard Road. As we headed towards the Morris Creek crossing…
we saw flashes of yellow in the
ditch beside the road.
From the road, we could
see that they were Narrowleaf Evening Primrose (Oenothera fruticosa).
The ditch was probably
about five feet deep in most places but we found a spot where it was about 30
inches deep. These flowers were in...
some close-up shots, and...
The plants were blooming
along the roadside ditch and, as we got closer to the creek, were blooming out
in the field and woods by the road. These were, by far, the
nicest Narrowleaf Evening Primrose flowers I have ever seen.
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