NC, Smokies, 20060623
Pisgah Mt, mostly many flowers.
"Botanical" trail (1 mile) with botanical club of some sort (including Jenny Lellinger, David Lellinger's wife!)
Amanita flavoconia []
In leaf litter below trail under mountain laurel and oak in open dry forest.
| | GEN | | med-large mushroom, under hardwoods |
| | ST | | golden orangish yell like cap, min scurfy mostly, smooth oranger striate skirt-like ring near top w rather even but min serr edge, large flaking scales bel exposing white flesh, bulbous whitish base, volva v indistinct |
| | CAP | | convex, round, vivid striking orange to golden yell at marg, not striate, perfectly even and smooth to v sl fibrillose, yell cottony thick small patches scattered, v sl ragged partial veil remnants hanging from margin |
| | GILL | | free, whitish, straight and clean |
Aquilegia canadensis
Several in fl; v early on. Only game in town. Had to get a picture, but didn't have time to set up tall tripod, so had to do ASA400 and large aperature and still blurred it.
Asclepias exaltata
Several in full fl in open area on slope early on.
Catharus fuscenscens[MISSING PHOTO]
Heard him in dark rhododendron forest past halfway.
| | VOICE | | rapidly rising and falling twice, "ethereal" stepped scales, reminiscent of wood thrush |
Cladonia multiformis [voucher]
On shady mossy rock beside trail just before it heads steeply downhill; growing with C. uncialis.
| | GEN | | fruticose lichen, cladonia, on mossy rock |
| | THAL | | v well br'd, grey-green, br'ing irreg and intricate and dense, podetia split wide open all over near tips esp, squamules scattered sparsely all over, no primary squamules left at all, cortex rough and v broken up |
| | MED | | white, continuous and smooth |
| | APO | | big brown balls at ends of brand tips, to 1mm rarely to 2mm |
Should do chemistry but seems little point: it keys out so convincingly, and matches the picture of the "cupless form" so well.
Clematis viorna []
Growing in great profusion in open parts of trail in first half; starting to flower.
| | LF | | opp, pin| lflt | | 3, ov-lance, lter and v sp strig bel |
petiole d pubesc |
| | INFL | | few fls in axils, cyme?, pubesc |
| | SEP | | 4, leathery, urn-like, tips spreading, burgundy outside, 1.5mm thick, 20x8mm, lance, long acum, strig outside, d tom on side edges, glab inside, yell to white bel inside and edges |
| | STAM | | many, vill, cream yell, 8+mm |
| | ANTH | | cream yell, 4mm w 1.5mm beak, basifix, lat slit |
| | OV | | many, sup, v d long silky from top, att to narr convex recept |
| | STYLE | | many, d sericeous, not fully devel |
Ilex ambigua ambigua
Several scattered, esp early on.
| | LF | | opp, decid, ov-lance, long to abrupt acum, serr, pet ~10mm |
| | PET | | 4, joined at base, white, min cil?, spread 90deg, ov |
| | STAM | | 4, att in sinuses of petals |
Lobaria pulmonaria [voucher]
Several nice patches on trees near path past halfway.
| | GEN | | foliose lichen, on decid bark of living tree trunks |
| | THAL | | broad lobes, shiny smooth olive green, raised retic ridges and broad pits all over, v loosely att, whitish to tan to brown tom bel w broad ellip white sl raised bald spots all over, lobes ascend irreg, marg d but thinly lined w white continuous soralia, soralia d sorediate and also fairly short isidiate, lobe tips squarish, can't find any cephalodia |
| | MED | | white, K+ yell turning slowly orange |
Oenothera fruticosa glauca
All over parkway and open spots on early trail.
| | INFL | | d term cyme, d gland puber |
| | PET | | large, bright yell, notched, v showy |
| | ANTH | | dorsifix, large, lat slit |
| | STYLE | | >> stam, yell, long 4-forked at tip |
Smilax herbacea
Many; in full fl or starting to; first half of trail; mostly in open areas.
Thalictrum revolutum
Have to trust them on this one not enough in picture to distinguish between T. r., T. pubescens, and T. macrostylum.
Thaspium barbinode
Lots; in full fl; in open places or open woods; mostly around 30%.
| | LF | | tern to 2-tern| lflt | | lance, v deeply serr, acute to acum, glab, no hyal marg |
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| | INFL | | comp umbels, final umbels round and compact, 1-rays > final umbels, lin bractlets at base of 1-rays, 2-rays all subeq (no fls sess), rays v ribbed, glab |
| | OV | | glab, not much longer than wide |
Vaccinium stamineum
A few pls a little past fl in fairly open areas.
| | LF | | distinctly bluish, entire, ov-lance, glab? |
| | INFL | | 1 in axil, pedicel arch to droop |
| | PET | | 5, white, small, open to broad bowl or cup shaped |
| | STAM | | 10?, well excl, erect |
These are other things of note we saw, but which I didn't have a chance to take notes or pictures of:
Amianthium muscaetoxicum
Tons starting to fl.
Castanea pumila
Tons in full fl.
Corylus cornuta
Weird fruit/flower!
Crataegus
Some vicious thorns and gooseberry-like fruits.
Houstonia longifolia
In flower; in one place.
Houstonia serpyllifolia
Lots scattered in scattered fl.
Ligusticum canadense
Sev huge plants in fl.
Menziesia pilosa
Budding? Leafs w a distinctive white tip.
Tradescantia subaspera
In flower; verified leaf width to make sure I've been getting it right.
Vaccinium corymbosum
Just leaf.
Pedicularis canadensis
Just dry fruits leaf. Same thing we saw on top of AT on Snowbird.
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