May 6th. (Continued from… ) I started to walk again
at Fort Yargo State Park in Winder, Georgia. One of my favorite walks is from
the Group Shelter A to the Old Fort and back.This
is a rewarding walk for viewing wildflowers and I’ve been trying to walk it
weekly and document the wildflowers I see.
As I started towards the Rock Garden, I found a
couple of small shrubs blooming out over the water.
I think this is an Arrow-wood
viburnum (Viburnum dentatum). The shrub has opposite leaves that have serrated
margins. However, I couldn’t reach the flowers to get a closer look.
A Virginia Sweetspire (Itea virginica) was setting buds.
The Resurrection Ferns (Pleopeltis polypodioides) were curling up as they dried in the absence
of rain.
The seedpod on a Eastern Sweetshrub
(Calycanthus floridus) by the trail in the Rock Garden was still developing.
I’d been following a Perfoliate
Bellwort (Uvularia perfoliata) plant that hadn’t died back after blooming,
indicating that it might develop a seedpod. However the flower stem I’d been
following wasn’t showing any sign of enlarging. It finally occurred to me to
look at the leaf behind another flower on the side of the plant away from the
trail and found…
a seedpod that was developing. Again, I’ve never seen a
seedpod develop on a Perfoliate Bellwort. Hopefully this seedpod will develop
to maturity.
I made my way along the trail to the…
Smallflower Pawpaw (Asimina
parviflora) plants. Some fruit were still developing.
As usual, I completed my walk along
the main trail to the Old Fort.
As I turned to walk back down the
trail I saw some Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon) butterflies. I've seen a
lot of these this spring.
As I made my way back along the
trail from the Old Fort, I found more fallen…
Tulip Poplar (Liriodendron
tulipifera) flowers.
When I got back to the Fishing Area,
I poked around among the...
Elliott’s Blueberry (Vaccinium elliottii) plants. One
of the plants had a good crop of berries.
Looking back along the trail to the
Fishing Area as I walked south.
All that remained of the Pink Lady’s
Slipper (Cypripedium acaule) plants that had been blooming just south of the
Fishing Area for the last few weeks.
Heading further south, there were
still more fallen…
Tulip Poplar flowers.
One of two Pipsissewa (Chimaphila
maculata) plants developing flowers in the woods just north of the first
bridge.
I startled another…
Five-lined skink as I walked to the
first bridge. I also startled a small Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus
undulatus) nearby but didn’t manage to photograph it before it
disappeared into the safety of the leaf littler.
I’d been hoping to find some
Virginia Sweetspire with opened blooms and, finally, found some by the first
bridge. These are so pretty when the flowers are fully opened.
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