Sunday, December 24, 2006
This Yellow Pond Lily resides in the water gardens at the NC Botanical Garden. Photographed in September, 2006.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Lots of red hot pokers in the world. This one lives in the NC Botanical Garden. Photographed in September, 2006.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Not sure exactly what kind of Carphephorus this one is, but it sure is bright. Photographed in late September, 2006 in the Croatan National Forest.
I expect someone will write in to let me know what it is exactly, but if you want to try your hand at an ID start here.
Friday, December 22, 2006
This August, during a visit to Tater Hill Bog, just outside of West Jefferson, I headed up the hill and into the woods with a couple of botanists in search of a seep. It was an eerie place with large boulders and lots of moss, lichen and various other growth affixed to the trees and [...]
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Photographed in late September in the Croatan National Forest in an area that had been burned in the late spring.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Photographed in late September, 2006 in the Croatan National Forest tagging along with the North Carolina Native Plant Society.
Additional information:
• USDA Plant Database
• Short Essay: In the Land of Fire
Occasionally nature, or at least how humans relate to it, solves its own mysteries. So it was when I first encountered a croaker. I was fishing in the ICW behind a little place on the sound side at Wrightsville Beach. This was back when there still were little places on the sound side at Wrightsville.
When [...]