Chapters
The Green Swamp and Boiling Spring Lakes
Saturday, August 14, 2010a walk through the longleaf pine savanna and pocosin of the Green Swamp followed by a walk around Boiling Spring Lakes
Heading out for a walk with David McAdoo, native orchid expert
The Green Swamp
Ludwigia virgata
slender seed-box between the evergreen leaves of Ilex glabra, inkberry
Xyris sp.
yellow-eyed grass
this long-horned flower beetle has some appetite!
Carphephorus sp.
chaffhead
I'm up here!
Lobelia sp.
Pinus palustris
longleaf pine in a fire-maintained community shown at various stages of development
Nyssa biflora?
unidentified
the thick leaves are fuzzy on the underside
Hypericum reductum
Atlantic St. Johnswort
Rhexia alifanus
smooth meadow-beauty or savanna meadow-beauty
can you spot the green lynx spider in this photo?
Crossing the pocosin
Clethra alnifolia in bloom
Making our way through the pine savanna
Valerie spots an orange milkwort, Polygala lutea
and hiding underneath are venus flytraps!
Polygala lutea
flower head of the orange milkwort
basal leaves
grass stage of longleaf pine flanked by inkberry, Ilex glabra
this evergreen shrub, Ilex glabra, is very abundant in the Green Swamp
Marshallia graminifolia
grassleaf Barbara's-buttons (and hidden predator)
Eupatorium sp
Sarracenia purpurea
purple pitcher plant with foxtail clubmoss, Lycopodium alepecuroides
Esther spots a yellow fringed orchid
Platanthera ciliaris
Sarracenia flava
yellow pitcher plant; trumpets
Sarracenia minor
hooded pitcher plant
Dionaea muscipula
Venus flytrap and lichen Cladonia sp.
Ctenium aromaticum
toothache grass in a "field" of wire grass, Aristida stricta
Polygala sp.
maybe P. brevifolia, shortleaf milkwort?
note persistent flower bracts; leaves of the main node appear to be whorled
Platanthera cristata
yellow-crested orchid
Consulting field guides
Transition zone
what a sharp transition! reflective of a change in the underlying soil composition
Aletris farinosa. ?
colicroot
Eryngium integrifolium
Polygala ramosa
low pinebarren milkwort
Eriocaulon sp.
pipewort; hatpins
close-up of the flower head
Magnolia virginiana
sweet bay
Drosera sp.
sundew
Tofieldia sp.
false asphodel?
Hypericum setosum
hairy St. John's-Wort
Hypericum stans
also Hypericum crux-andreae; St. Peter's-wort
Rhexia alifanus
smooth meadow-beauty with crab spider
crab spiders, disguised as part of the flower, lay in wait for their prey
Family Fabaceae
Hypericum gentianoides
pineweed
Clethra alnifolia
sweet pepperbush (it does smell sweet!)
Cyrilla racemiflora
titi; leatherwood
en route to Boiling Spring Lakes along 211
sweet bay
Gordonia lasianthus
Flowering vine
w/ another hidden Green Lynx
A ditch-full of surprises
Drosera intermedia
Habenaria repens
water-spider orchid
More carnivorous plants
bladderwort (Utricularia sp.), also shown below, and sundew (Drosera sp.)
Roadside attraction Boiling Spring Lakes
white fringed orchid and yellow-eyed grass; flytraps in background
Dionaea muscipula
Venus' Flytrap everywhere!
Platanthera blephariglottis
white-fringed orchid
on that note I’ll leave you until next time…THANK YOU to David McAdoo for being our fearless leader through the Green Swamp and Boiling Spring Lakes and introducing us to the beautiful native orchids of Brunswick County!
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