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Green Swamp, May 2005
21 May 2005 the Triad Chapter sponsored a trip to the Green Swamp in Southeast NC. The weather was cool for this time of year but spirits were undaunted. Several folks from the Native Orchid Society joined us for the walk.
Dave McAdoo gives us the lowdown on the day's activities
Hidden in the Bracken, a Yellow Baptisia greeted us just as we walked into the area.
It was unbelievable to see what was hiding in the wiregrass.
Looks like John was in a hurry and still had his nite shirt on.
Even the ditches along the road held treasures.
We posed for a human photo-op at the end of the 1st walk. What cooperation!! SCNPS member, Jim Fowler, holds our NCNPS banner. Check out Jim's book Wild Orchids of South Carolina.
Hat on backward, dirty knees. Must be a plant photographer. Leave him alone Alice, David McCann didn't come all the way from Ohio to talk to you!
The stars of the day were the plants:
Cleistes bifaria
Cleistes divaricata
Sarracenia flava
Copper topped Sarracenia
Rose Pogonia
Rose Pogonia
In a roadside ditch, filled with sphagnum moss
Dave called this the "Mother of all Venus Flytraps"
An offspring of "the mother"
Sarracenia rubra
Sunbonnets, Chaptalia tomentosa
Sundew
Whorled Milkweed
Thanks to Tom Harville and David McAdoo for the photos!
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