2013 Spring Wildflower Thread

Kevin said:

@ Raven- Tried to PM, but your box is full!

KDT

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Thanks - just took care of that.

At Rattlesnake Mtn. in Rumney (Rock Climber's Parking Lot) 4/26/13


Trout Lily Erythronium americanum


Bloodroot Sanguanaria canadensis and Dutchman's Breeches Dicentra cucullaria


Dutchman's Breeches Dicentra cucullaria


Dutchman's Breeches Dicentra cucullaria


Early Saxifrage Saxifraga virginiensis

KDT

I have seen a bunch of stuff over the last couple weeks, but don't have great pictures to display.
flowers seen include: early saxifrage, columbine, barren strawberry, wood anemone, cowslips, bellwort, wake robin, wild ginger, squirrel corn, dutchman's breaches, hobblebush,and red-berried elder.
phew!

Thanks, everyone. Gorgeous photos. Keep them coming. My favorite season.

Great Blue Hill and nearby ponds:


jack-in-the-pulpit


buttercup


wild sarsaparilla



starflower


cinnamon fern (sterile frond)


cinnamon fern (fertile frond)


Calla palustris (answer to a question from earlier in the thread)


Highbush blueberry


spaghnum moss


pink lady's slipper

Wow! Great stuff Dave! We walked with family around Ponkapoag for the first time today. I found one Lady Slipper in bloom and one Cala Lily on the bog/boardwalk. Beautiful place! Love the sphagnum moss shot!

KDT

Yellow Ladyslipper. Today in the Lakes Region.

Fringed Polygala from Crawford-Ridgepole today.

Another day in the Lakes Region, 5/15/13. I messed up a setting while swatting black flies and picking off ticks so these will have to do.

Rhodora and Bumble Bee.


Rose Twisted Stalk.


More Yellow Lady Slipper.

Awesome Rick! I've never found a Yellow Lady's Slipper in NH, I guess I'm not looking hard enough!

KDT

A Few More...


Trout Lily Erythronium americanum


Garlic Mustard Alliaria petiolata


Fringed Polygala Polygala paucifolia


Fringed Polygala Polygala paucifolia


Pink Lady's Slipper Cypripedium acaule


Wild Calla Lily Calla palustris


Painted Turtle Chrysemys picta

KDT

Still in the Blue Hills, definitely the lowest-altitude and most urban location I've seen these:

Pink lady's slipper:




wild geranium:

And Some More...


Nodding Trillium Trillium cernuum


Dwarf Ginseng Panax trifolius


Common Blue Violet Viola papilionacea


Bluets Houstonia caerulea


I think: Hairy Solomon's Seal Polygonatum pubescens


Wild Columbine Aquilegia canadensis


Pink Lady's Slipper Cypripedium acaule


Herb Robert Geranium robertianum

KDT

I found an unusual thing in the woods on Tuesday. A pink lady's slipper, except the ENTIRE plant was white! The basal leaves, the stem, the flower. Everything. Weird, huh?
I'll see if I can post a picture tomorrow.

Jason Berard said:

I found an unusual thing in the woods on Tuesday. A pink lady's slipper, except the ENTIRE plant was white! The basal leaves, the stem, the flower. Everything. Weird, huh?
I'll see if I can post a picture tomorrow.

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I want to see this. An all-white plant is a plant with no chlorophyll. While some plants (including some orchids) can get their sugar by parasitzing saprophytic fungi, I wasn't aware that lady's-slippers were among these. (A few plants actually parasitize other plants directly. I'm not aware of any orchid that does this.)

Edit: it seems that all orchids are partially mycotrophic. You learn something every day, if you spend enough time on the Web.

In the last nine days...


Rhodora Rhododendron canadensis


Rhodora Rhododendron canadensis


Oxeye Daisy Chrysanthemum leucanthamum


Black Chokeberry Aronia melanocarpa


Yellow Lady's Slipper Cypripedium pubescensEshqua Bog Natural Area Hartland Vermont


Foam Flower Tiarella cordifolia


Water Avens Geum rivale Eshqua Bog Natural Area Hartland Vermont


Clintonia Clintonia borealis


Blue-eyed Grass Sisyrinchium montanum


Red Spotted Newt Notophthalmus viridescens


KDT

nartreb said:

I want to see this. An all-white plant is a plant with no chlorophyll. While some plants (including some orchids) can get their sugar by parasitzing saprophytic fungi, I wasn't aware that lady's-slippers were among these. (A few plants actually parasitize other plants directly. I'm not aware of any orchid that does this.)

Edit: it seems that all orchids are partially mycotrophic. You learn something every day, if you spend enough time on the Web.

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You can find the image, and very neat explanation of how this is possible on the Northern Woodlands facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/NorthernWoodlands

I still haven't heard of anyone else actually seeing one before, which is kinda neat!

Thanks for posting the link Jason. Certainly knew about the mycorhizzal relationship in lady slippers and many other orchids but have never even heard of never mind seen, anything like that. Very cool!

I have some other photos to post at some point, but wanted to post the following one first. The plant part of the flower and the coloring of the petals makes me believe this is a Painted Trillium. But the shear number of flower petals goes against that. Is it possible this one just grew with extra petals? This was found about 1/3 of the way up Stratton Mtn this weekend. Sorry about the quality of photo with it being in the shade in the morning. I mainly took the picture to ask the question here.