2011 spring wildflower thread

[arghman]

Got my alpine fix in the Presidential Range today!

The diapensia and Lapland rosebay are done blooming, alpine azalea still in bloom.


Viburnum edule
squashberry


Viola palustris*
alpine marsh violet


Lonicera villosa
mountain fly-honeysuckle


Phyllodoce caerulea*
mountain heath


Amelanchier bartramiana
Bartram's shadbush


Betula glandulosa*
dwarf birch


Kalmia polifolia
bog laurel


Potentilla robbinsiana*
dwarf cinquefoil


Juncus trifidus
three-forked rush


Ribes glandulosum
skunk currant

* = state-listed rare/endangered in NH

 

[RickB.]

From Mt. Adams yesterday, 6-20-11:

More Mountain Heath

Pale Laurel? There was a large patch of these, several hundred square feet.

 

[Elizabeth]

Lyme and 19 Mile Brook Trail

From Lyme, NH last week:


Oxeye Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum) by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr


Wild Madder (Galium mollugo) by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr


Maple-leaved Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium) by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr


White Clover (Trifolium repens) by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr

And from 19 Mile Brook Trail yesterday (June 20):


02. Yellow Avens (Geum aleppicum) along 19 Mile Brook Trail by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr


04. Pink flower along 19 Mile Brook Trail by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr

Can anyone help me on that last one? I am wondering if it is Mountain Anemone (Anemone lancifolia).

 

[nartreb]

forget-me-nots, Sunday the 19th, Vermont.

Blue background "curtain" is a pair of windproof hiking pants... I really like the effect (but I should probably crop a little tighter anyway).

 

[JohnL]

Iwasn't prepared to find this flower today and I didn't carry my water shoes. So I left my socks and boots by the trailside and went barefoot into a cold bog at 7:00 this morning to get these shots.

Large Purple-fringed Orchid Platanthera grandifolia

JohnL

 

[JohnL]

Lupine and Friend

JohnL

 

[JohnL]

I paid the price for these shots today. I pulled a dozen ticks off myself while I was out and after I got back home.

Deptford Pink Dianthus armeria

Butter-and-Eggs; Common Toadflax Linaria vulgaris

Spreading Dogbane Apocynum androsaemifolium

Day Lily Hemerocallis fulva

Maltese Cross Lychnis chalcedonica

JohnL

 

[Kevin Judy and Emma]

Thanks, John!

Beautiful shots always, but especially of late!

KDT

 

[JohnL]

Thanks so much for the kind comment. I have a lot of fun doing it and along with a sense of discovery, that's what keeps me motivated.

JohnL

 

[nartreb]

purple-flowering raspberry rubus odoratus in the Gunks:

wood lily lilium philadelphicum at Rattlenake Mountain:

 

[JohnL]

From the backyard this afternoon:

Spotted Touch-me-not Impatiens capensis

Indian Pipe Monotropa uniflora

Canada Mayflower, The Berries Maianthemum canadense

JohnL

 

[arghman]

today's photograph bounty (all state-listed in NH):

Rubus chamaemorus (cloudberry) -- berries weren't quite ripe yet, maybe another week or two.


Arctostaphylos alpina (alpine bearberry) -- this one's too rare to eat the berries; the rain this year must have really helped because I can never remember seeing so many berries present.


Nabalus boottii = Prenanthes boottii (Boott's rattlesnake-root)

 

[JohnL]

Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis

JohnL

 

[RickB.]

From yesterday (7-20-11) in the Belknaps. The common, but delicate orchid, Downy Rattlesnake Plantain.

 

[Elizabeth]

Indian Cucumber Root (Medeola virginiana) by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr

Indian Cucumber Root, Dorchester, NH

 

[JohnL]

After taking some sunrise shots along the Concord River, I took a walk along the Battle Road Trail in Concord and found some wildflowers. Not exactly wilderness but it was quiet at 7AM in a light rain.

Spiked (Dense) Blazing Star; Gay Feather Liatris spicata

Woodland Sunflower Helianthus strumosus

Chicory Cichorium intybus

Okay, one sunrise shot.

JohnL

 

[J&J]

JohnL----Love that shot of the Chicory!

 

[arghman]

Dalibarda repens


Brasenia schreberi

 

[cooperhill]

From the Skookumchuck trail, Asters:



From the Starr King trail, ????:

 

[arghman]

From the Starr King trail, ????:

Skunk currant (Ribes glandulosum)