NC, Smokies, 20060614
CabinCove, various, flowers and fungi.
Daisies
Erigeron annuus
In full bloom all over.
Erigeron philadelphicus
Many are still in bloom, some just starting, many are done.
Erigeron strigosus
In full bloom all over.
Erigeron pulchellus
Haven't seen any of these in weeks.
Leucanthemum vulgare
These are all still in full bloom, many the same plants I photoed weeks ago.
Other Flowers
Asclepias quadrifolia
Still in full fl on upper logging road.
Ceanothus americanus
Just starting to fl at beginning of upper logging road.
Chamaelirium luteum
Mostly done. Only the one plant at Mary-Wanda spring bloomed; the ones up the ravine did not.
Euphorbia corollata []
Starting to fl in clear-cut.
| | LF | | alt, lance, sess, top 4 in a whorl |
| | FL | | 5 green glands with showy white apps, symmetric and v flower-like |
Gamochaeta purpurea purpurea
Few here and there, eg. in field above house and in parking area by the cabin. Bloomed a few weeks ago, now long finished.
| | ST | | sev br'd at v base, decumb, tightly white flocc |
| | LF | | alt, mostly caul, oblance, rounded tip, green and glabrate ab, d white tightly flocc bel, erect to spread, 40x10+0mm, atten base, appears to be decur but ony because wings of petiole stick to stem for a few mm |
| | INFL | | tall narr spike of v short d spikes, lfy, heads urn-shaped until they're done at which point they open up and the phyls spread 90deg and fls fall out |
| | PHYL | | sev imbr rows, ov, acum, papery, green to pinkish or purpish, 2x1.3mm, few sp flocc hairs at base |
| | DISC | | mostly pistilate (outside) w a few staminate in the center |
| | FR | | cyl, straw, dotted with little warts (resin dots supposedly) |
| | PAP | | 12 cap bristles, white, ant barbellate, fused and decid as a unit, 2-2.2mm (hard to get them to sit still!) |
Lysimachia quadrifolia
These seemed to have reached and maybe even passed their peak.
Silene virginica
These seem to be at their peak, all over the upper logging road in clear-cut.
Mushrooms
Amanita inaurata
Found a beautiful one with obvious "strangling" ring of grey material above collared volva; this one by Mary-Wanda spring.
Cantharellus minor? []
Just below the road where the upper logging road enters the forest, on moist mossy rocky bank.
| | GEN | | small mushroom, on moist mossy bank |
| | ST | | to 90x3-5mm, narrowest at top, white at base to bright orange at top, solid to hollow at top, brittle but fibrous, thinly wh tom where white bel |
| | CAP | | to 20mm, convex to dimpled, bright orange, yellish orange tom over scarlet base |
| | FLESH | | soft, yell to orange to red, 2mm thick |
| | GILL | | decur, bright yellow, some forked, 1 per mm or less, kinda thick and waxy, 2mm wide |
| | SPORE | | print white? (failed), knobbed, colorless, smooth, ellip, 1 cell, 7.5-9x5-5.5um |
It's possible these spores are contaminants. Seems it could easily be
C. ignicolor, too. None mention the red undertones. It is not
Hygrocybe because of the fibrillose cap, although they look entirely too round and regular and straight to be
Cantharellus, but I always have trouble getting a spore print from chanterelles.
Clavaria vermicularis
Another clump of thinner ones coming up in the path right next to old one above Mary-Wanda spring. Old one still looks relatively fresh.
Cortinarius subargentatus []
HUGE stalk, no volva, but still has a long way to go.
Marasmius strictipes?
Scattered all over in leaf litter. Occasionally joined in clumps of up to 3. Always associated with conifers. Stalk varies from yell to cream, 2-5mm thick. Cap is bell-shaped w inrolled margin when young w a sorta waxy feel and a weak umbo. Becomes whiter in age, and margin curls up and becomes quite brown.
| | ST | | 2-5mm thick, ochre-yell to creamy pale yell to white at v top, tends to be twisted a bit and not straight, fibrous, smooth, splits a bit but does not break when bent sharply, rather tough but not particularly rubbery, hollow |
| | CAP | | 25-30mm, bell to flat, weak umbo, smooth, tacky, creamy to beige to brown at v marg, marg in-turned when young to ragged or up-turned when old |
| | FLESH | | creamy, 1mm, tough but flexible, not breaking |
| | GILL | | notched, 4 per mm, straight to wavy esp near marg, clean, lt creamy, to 2mm wide |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, ellip, dimpled when dry, 1 cell, smooth, 6x2.5um |
Thought this was
Collybia dryophila for a while, but now I'm fairly certain the ones on
20060612 and
20060705 are that, whereas nthis one seems to match
Marasmius strictipes better.
Pholiota aurivella
Oops, I seem to have missed its peak. The cap did open, at least.
Crepidotus applanatus []
Just below road where upper logging road enters forest.
| | GEN | | tiny shelf fungi, on dead hardwood |
| | ST | | none, fuzzy white where cap att to wood |
| | CAP | | flat, white, 10-20mm wide, round, smooth |
Psathyrella delineata
Found one just above old road at foot of slope halfway between Messer's and Mary-Wanda.
Thelephora vialis?
Two clumps in old road at foot of slope just before it crosses Messer's spring.
Collybia "brown blotched smooth dimpled job"
Two mushrooms (not connected) in moss just above little side-spring at Mary-Wanda spring.
| | GEN | | med mushroom, scattered in moss |
| | ST | | 70x4-5mm, thinnest just bel top, orange to pale yell at top to pale orange at base, smooth but w some irreg white fuzzy tufts, white mycelial mat at base sticking to mosses and leaves, hollow, tough but flexible, somewhat rubbery and not breaking or splitting |
| | CAP | | 40mm, convex, v sl dimple in center, not striate, dry, smooth, slick, tawny to brown in ctr w lter yellish marg, some odd lt tan sm irreg blotches, looks like the cuticle is made up of interwoven filamentous cells (not a palisade) |
| | FLESH | | creamy white, 1.5mm thick, soft and flexile but not breaking |
| | GILL | | pale yell, adnate, 3+ per mm, unbr, straight, clean, 3mm wide |
| | SPORE | | print white, colorless, ellip, dimpleda when dry, 1 cell, minute, 5x2.5um |
Seems to be the same thing I found on
20060605.
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