NC, Smokies, 20060710
CabinCove, various.

Asclepias syriaca []

Could also be A. purpurascens, but Dicks has me convinced otherwise due to pendent big globose infls.

Hemerocallis fulva []

Planted by entrance. Just wanted a few photos.

Geranium dissectum []

In compost pile.
GEN spreading large herb
LF palm dissected nearly to base, finely long spreading clear gland bristly on petioles and margs and under veins, sp short strig to ascend hairy also, lobe tips apic, 30x50+35mm or so, lobes to 5mm wide, each major div w 3-5 lobes
INFL d small term cymes, pedicel to 10mm
SEP 5, free, ascend, ov, subulate awn, 8x3mm incl 1.5-2mm awn in flower, 10x4mm in fruit, v d short strig and sp to somewhat d long fine spread gland bristly
PET 5, free, 5x1.9mm, strap, v min rounded notched, lt pink w dk pink veins, spread 45deg
STAM 10, eq petals
STYLE 5, eq stam
FR d fine spread-ascend short bristly and less d fine long spread gland bristly

Lobelia inflata []

In rock garden behind house.
GEN erect herb
ST hairy
LF alt, 10+mm wide, lance, hairy
INFL tall bracteate spike or raceme
PET smallish, bluish white
Sorry, don't want to pick the one specimen, and it's an easy enough ID that I don't need careful observations.

Coreopsis tinctoria tinctoria []

In garden.
GEN tall erect herb, pleasant strong grassy odor
LF opp, highly 2-3-pin dissected, lflts narr lin-ellip, rounded at v tip, 140x140+10mm or so, lflts to 60x5+4mm, glab, rachis deeply grooved
INFL term cymes
PHYL 2 series
inner 5.5x4mm, ov-delt, brownish-reddish, glab, obtuse, spread with rays, base constricted
outer 1.5x1mm, greenish, marg min crisped, base constricted, glab
RECEPT convex, chaffy, 4x0.5mm, taper ab and curve inward, flat, scar w sev orange veins turning maroon at tip where it is excl from disc fls, glab
RAY 10, spread, brilliant yellow w deep kk maroon zone bel half to sl larger, line between the two zones irreg and spotted but sharp, 11x8mm, obov, wavy 3-lobed, lat lobes smaller than ctr lobe, ster
DISC many, 8-9mm wide, maroon, 4 lobes and 4 anthers
OV glab, v comp, ov
PAP sev 1.5-2mm chaff-like scales, not excl, lacerate curly tip-hairs

Hypericum punctatum []

In rock garden by house.
LF strongly punctate
SEP strongly finely broken black striate

Agaricus "brown fibrillose skirted jobby" []

By "saw pit" under hemlocks.
GEN med mushroom, under conifers
ST 50x8-10mm, bent at bottom, whitish fibrous over top of brownish pink flesh, firm but brittle, solid, conspic fragile solid whitish skirt near top, developing a very unpleasant sharp bitter odor after crushed
CAP 60mm, convex, v pale brown w fibrous med-brown scales in concentric rings coalescing into 20mm wide solid patch at top, K- or v sl discoloring
FLESH whitish, 6mm, fragile, soft, K-
GILL free, gorgeous pink but aging brownish fairly quickly to eventually black and disintigrating, 5mm long, 3 per mm, straight, clean, unbr, turning deeper pink slowly after mishandling, no droplets of any sort
SPORE print brownish?, lt brown, smooth, oblong-ellip, 2 cell or 2 oil drops in either end, ~5x3um, some min apic, sticking irreg

Bovista colorata []

On old jeep road in pine forest.
GEN tiny puffballs, under conifers in old roadbed
ST nearly nonexistent, 2-3mm thick
CAP 10-12mm round to sl ellip, deep golden sl-orangish yellow, v d finely granular-tomentose
FLESH whitish, solid, soft and rubbery
SPORE white?

?

On Jason's Path just before it goes down to Mitchell's/Messer's branch.
GEN tiny finger fungus, scattered densely, under mixed hardwoods and hemlocks
CAP vivid yell-orange, 10x1mm, pretty even width though not perfectly straight, v weakly sinewy, v min powdery (white spores visible at 30x?)
SPORE ?

Anthoxanthum odoratum

Grass by pond.
GEN cespitose, wintergreen odor at roots, decumb
LF flat, 7mm wide, lig 5mm sharp memb, largest at base, one or two reducing rapidly on lower half of stem, marg min ant scaber, sev long clear bristles on "shoulders", sheath 100% open
INFL v d spike-like pan, 50x8mm, oblong-lance
STAM 2, anth 3mm or so
STYLE 2, well excl
SPKLT 7mm incl 1.5mm awn, narr lance, terete, small beard below spklt, min scaber along keels
low gl 3.5mm, scar, acute, 1 vein, min cil on keel and lower marg
up gl 7mm, 3 veins
ster lems 2, 4-6mm awn from base or near base, 1-2.5mm scar d silky body, 2 closely-spaced green veins
fert lem min, scar, glab
paleas ?

Tuckermannopsis ciliaris []

This one is a bit paler, has more lobules, but still has lots of prominant black pycnidia on marg (even a few on surface) and a few cilia. It is also C+ vivid red. (No pseudocyphellae or apothecia.)

Physcia pumilior [] [voucher]

On limb I picked up somewhere on way to mail.
GEN foliose lichen, on hardwood limb
THAL pale grey, bumpy, flat to convex, v appress, non even color, lobes v narr (< 0.5mm wide), brown rhiz abundant bel, no cilia, white to pale bel, K+ yell, C-
MED white, K+ yell, C-
ALG green
APO abundant, small, disk, dk brown to black, small (0.3mm or so), raised, constricted bel, even thin marg
SPORE smooth, ellip, 2 cell, locules stop-sign-shaped or smaller and close to septa, brownish, 8 per ascus, 12-13x5-7um
This is a much less ambiguous sample than the tiny thing I found on the limb wiith the Xanthoria on 20060712.