The official 2010 Spring wildflowers thread...

[JohnL]

Great thread! Some great images from everyone.

I found this little beauty while on my hands and knees getting some images of some Yellow Wood Sorrel. It is Corn Speedwell and it is the tiniest flower I have ever come across.

Blue-eyed Grass

Mouse-ear Chickweed

Oh yeh, here's the Yellow Wood Sorrel

JohnL

 

[arghman]

Hudsonia ericoides (golden-heather, photographed in southern NJ)


Cypripedium arietinum (ram's-head lady's slipper, undisclosed location in NH, found only in the northeastern states and northeastern Canada, rare throughout its range)

 

[JohnL]

With no wind and an hour to kill after work last night, I headed off to the open land under the power lines to check out any wildflower opportunites. Here are what I found:

Star Chickweed

******* Toadflax

Sheep Laurel

Dame's Rocket

White Campion

Unknown (any ideas?)

JohnL

 

[arghman]

Unknown (any ideas?)

JohnL

looks like Maianthemum racemosum (false solomon's seal)

 

[w7xman]

Many of the meadow flowers are starting to bloom in SoNH...including daisies, trefoil, and LUPINES! I also found some blue-eyed grass the other day...

Won't be long now before we get fields of daisies, fields of lupines, and fields of irises! Can't wait.

Also...now is the time to begin following the sugar hill lupine blog...
http://www.harmanscheese.com/lupinephotos.html

 

[1HappyHiker]

On 22-May-2010 at about 3100 ft elevation in the Franconia Range, I saw what's shown in the photo below.
The photo is a bit blurry since the plant was being buffeted by gusty winds. However, is there enough there to enable someone to tell me if this is Deer's Hair Sedge, Highland Rush, Tufted Bulrush, or none of the above?!

 

[Fisher Cat]

I'll take a stab. Based on the photo, my guess is Deer's-hair sedge. It doesn't have the look of Highland Rush to me.

 

[RickB.]

Rhodora on Carter Ledge, 5-21-10.

 

[arghman]

However, is there enough there to enable someone to tell me if this is Deer's Hair Sedge, Highland Rush, Tufted Bulrush, or none of the above?

yeah, definitely Trichophorum cespitosum (deer's-hair sedge). The tufted look w/ the single small flowerhead gives it away. Graminoids are tough, but you could have narrowed it down to sedges (not grasses/rushes) by feeling the leaf blades for edges... this one is just distinctive, Tricophorum just looks like that. there's a similar one that's found in a few oak-hickory forests of southern NH. If you don't go by geography/habitat, then you're stuck with evil technical characteristics.

 

[1HappyHiker]

Well, I'm a novice at wildflower identification. And so once again, I need some help with identifying a wildflower. The snapshot below was taken on 23-May-2010 at about 2,100 ft elevation on the Peabody Brook Trail in the Mahoosuc Range.

 

[NeoAkela]

I'd guess Wood Anemone, but I'm a flower novice...

 

[arghman]

The snapshot below was taken on 23-May-2010 at about 2,100 ft elevation on the Peabody Brook Trail in the Mahoosuc Range.

Fragaria sp., probably virginiana (strawberry)

 

[JohnL]

Diapensia on Franconia Ridge

Rhodora on Old Bridle Path

Goldthread on Old Bridle Path

Wild Geraniums near home.
Two different flowers. Open vs closed and note the color variation.

Wild Raisin near home.

 

[w7xman]

Diapensia on Franconia Ridge

Great shots...and WAHOOOOOO!!!! Alpine wildflower season is here!

Please be sure to contribute to the AMC's citizen scientist reporting system.
http://www.outdoors.org/conservation/mountainwatch/

 

[JohnL]

Alpine Flowers

Diapensia, Alpine Azalea and Lapland Rosebay

The entire summit cone of Mt Eisenhower was covered with these three alpine flowers.

JohnL

 

[JohnL]

More wildflower finds from the weekend:

Labrador Tea

Appalachian Sandwort

Squarrose Knapweed

Maple-leaved Viburnam (with bee)

Yellow Clintonia

Hmmm, I can't identify this one. Any ideas?

JohnL

 

[arghman]

Hmmm, I can't identify this one. Any ideas?

Gaylussacia baccata (black huckleberry)

 

[grouseking]

Bunchberry Flowers are out and about on the Lambert Ridge trail. I think it is a bit early

 

[JohnL]

Not an alpine flower but an interesting little bloomer nonetheless.

Partridge-berry

JohnL

 

[cooperhill]

A few from a recent trip to Chocorua.

Not sure of this one?

Mountain ash - early for this? Seems it.