NC, Smokies, 20060529
CabinCove, various, flowers etc.
Crepidotus applanatus?
Little white delicate shelf mushrooms on small rotting log on old road at foot of slope to Mary-Wanda.
| | CAP | | flat, rounded, off-white, smooth, 35x30mm (wider than deep), soft |
| | GILL | | v thin, soft and a bit wavy, lt tan, 1.5 per mm, 8mm tall, all radiate from pt of att |
| | SPORE | | print lt brown, round, smooth, flat on one side, 5um, colorless, sticky (stack many-deep in dark areas) |
According to
Arora and
Lincoff it's supposed to have "minutely spiny" round spores without a germ pore. Size and color is right but the other details appear to me to be wrong. Ooh, maybe the "stickiness" is a sign of spininess?? Also wrong time of year according to
Lincoff. (Which is why I picked it to start with!)
Mitchella repens
Along old "road" at base of hill between Messer's spring and Mary-Wanda spring. First I've seen in fl.
| | ST | | flattened ab, puber on top |
| | LF | | opp, dk green, evergreen, ov, rounded tip, trunc to v sl cordate base, 12x12+8mm, dk shiny ab, duller lter bel (but still shiny), puber in line either side of petiole |
| | STIP | | join into broad delt, 1x2mm, acum, erect |
| | INFL | | pair in umbel in axil, peduncle 3.5mm, pedicel 0 (the calyces and ovaries are joined!) |
| | HYP | | cup, 2x2mm, glab, green, sp punctate (w clear glands?), join with other fl |
| | SEP | | 4, join, lobes 0.8x1mm, green, glab |
| | PET | | 4, salver, 15x11mm, tube 11x1.8-2mm, lobes 5x2mm spread lance, tube white bel, all white inside, rest lt reddish purp outside, tube min clear gland puber bel, lobes min gland puber cil, all d long pubesc inside |
| | STAM | | 4, alt pet, join to corolla from base to just bel sinuses, fil white glab 4mm, fil min gland puber at base |
| | ANTH | | lt yell, 1.2mm, dorsifix, lat slit |
| | OV | | 1, inf, 4 chamb, green |
| | STYLE | | 4 brs at tip, brs 1.8mm, join for ~8mm |
Hmmm, ov must be 2 chamb.
Rubus allegheniensis
Blackberry patch beside house. In full fl, and been that was for well more than a week.
| | INFL | | d rac, lfy bracts bel bot few brs| pedicels | | to 30mm, vill and v sp red gland-stiptate |
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| | SEP | | 5, join at base, 7x4mm, lance, apic, pt 1mm, cupped, spread 90+deg, green, vill and v sp red gland stiptate, d white tom-cil |
| | PET | | 5, free, white, claw, spread 90deg, 20x11mm, blade rounded ellip, claw 3x1.5mm |
| | STAM | | tons, to 9mm (longest on sides), spreadin hemisphere, white, glab |
| | ANTH | | 0.5mm, lt brown, dorsifix, lat slit |
| | STYLE | | tons, green, glab, stig just puber tuft at end, 3mm or so |
Taenidia integerrima
At bot of dry wash I use to get to the clearcut, near the small green wood orchid. In full fl, been that way for a while.
| | LF | | 2-pin (biternate)| lflt | | ellip, obtuse tip, trunc to sl cord base, green ab, lter bel, glab, not glauc, 25-35x15-25+0-13mm |
pedicel 40mm, base sheathing |
| | INFL | | comp umbel| 2-rays | | 20 or so, 5mm, radiating in hemisphere |
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| | PET | | 5, free, yell, 1.5x0.8mm, curve back in to touch ov |
| | STAM | | 5, 2mm, yell, showy, anth a little yell pom-pom at end |
Vicia caroliniana
In clearcut, on overgrown sideroad toward Tigger's Trot right where it enters the forest. In full fl, and been that way for a few days at least.
| | GEN | | herb, erect to climbing |
| | ST | | square, glabrate, green |
| | LF | | alt, even-pin, unbr tendril at end| lflt | | 12+, irreg places not really opp, 16x8+0.8mm, oblong-lance, rounded both ends, twisty, soft, sp puber bel on veins |
internodes to 12mm, pedicel 6mm |
| | STIP | | 3.5x1mm, lance, acute, red base, wavy-cil and long wavy hairy around base |
| | INFL | | rac, axil, peduncle 20mm, internodes 8mm or so, pedicel 1mm or so, fls spread, frs spread |
| | SEP | | 3x1.8x1.6mm, bilat| lobes | | < 1mm (longest maybe 0.8mm), broadly delt to broadly acum |
appress, glab, green to whitish w red tinge |
| | PET | | white, 11x5x5mm total| ban | | 7x5mm, 10mm long, 30-40deg, pinched at top marg folded forward |
| keel | | 4.5mm, 6.5mm long, deep violet tip, tip obtuse |
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| | STAM | | all join, glab, tip of tube oblique |
| | STYLE | | terete, white, puber ab half |
| | FR | | pod, dehisc, halves become v spirally twisted and lin after dehisc, 25mm long |
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