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Study => Lessons From Nature => Topic started by: JimB on January 20, 2016, 10:09:03 AM
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Since starting the Animal Tracks topic I thought it might also be fun to have a topic for plants and "other things". By "other things" I mean mushrooms, fungus-es etc. Some of the pics I do know the identity of the flower/plant but others I do need help with. Here is the first one.
Some info if it helps. This picture was taken in late mid to late August and on Isle Royale.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7659/18088504161_202240961b_k.jpg)
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That is my response also Cp. I showed this to someone else who has pointed me to what he believes it to be but I'm not convinced. This is one of those times that I'm hoping others can help. I wish I had include more of the plant and especially the leaves. I'll be more thorough the next time I take pictures of the unknown.
Also this plant isn't very big at most about 12 inches. Assuming I'm remembering correctly. It's been about a year and a half since that picture was taken.
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I am not botanically inclined, so I cannot say much more than "Fascinating. Let us know what you find out." :)
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Vicki, I must say this not my strong area either. I do prefer animals and their tracks :) but flowers isn't far behind. I'm hoping that someone will have a good idea. Someone told me that they believe it's a relative the Baneberry but while they kinda-sorta look similar I don't think it is.
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BlueBead Lily http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/clintonia_borealis.shtml (http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/clintonia_borealis.shtml) I hunted the picture in google images till I found it, it grows from New England down to WNC as it's southern most range.
images https://www.google.com/search?q=blue+bead+lily&client=opera&hs=Yds&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7xMy67bzKAhUGvoMKHTXVCUEQ_AUICCgC (https://www.google.com/search?q=blue+bead+lily&client=opera&hs=Yds&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7xMy67bzKAhUGvoMKHTXVCUEQ_AUICCgC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clintonia_borealis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clintonia_borealis)
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/all/clintonia-borealis/ (https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/all/clintonia-borealis/)
http://www.survivallandusa.com/Clintonia-Borealis-Corn-Clintons-Bluebead-Lily-Edible.html (http://www.survivallandusa.com/Clintonia-Borealis-Corn-Clintons-Bluebead-Lily-Edible.html)
https://youtu.be/iXK3dd9AqHE (https://youtu.be/iXK3dd9AqHE)
For those who remember Rocky and Bullwinkle's "Mr Know-it-all", I confess I had no idea, just a suspicion, so I went to google - LOL ;D .
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Ed!! Thanks! Mystery solved. Thank you. I tried looking but apparently I wasn't as tenacious as you in your search.
I'll be posting another soon.
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Hint it's kin to a blueberry,but wilder in flavor, loves semi shade in the woods, and has a name hunters try to shoot in the fall, and game wardens fine if the hunters shoot the doe in stead. ---- berry ?
No peeking till you give up then use the links. We used to pick gallons of them back home, eat them ripe or they are very sour, have a very purple staining juice, freezing is better than jams or jellies using them.
My aunt would pour them in very big freezer bags, lay them flat, shake to loosen berries apart once frozen, pour into wide mouth freezer jars ( glass), would keep better.
(http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/zz141/EFSutton/Brevard%20Transylvania%20County%20Western%20NC%20USA/3731808951_8f98b4ff17_b.jpg)
(http://i822.photobucket.com/albums/zz141/EFSutton/Brevard%20Transylvania%20County%20Western%20NC%20USA/Vaccinium_stamineum1%201.jpg)
https://youtu.be/Ee_bcuGxkf4 (https://youtu.be/Ee_bcuGxkf4)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_stamineum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_stamineum)
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Almost impossible to find pictures of the WNC wild buckberry - berry shaped like a purple blue black hershey's kiss, with an open gray ring on the bottom of the berry.
Seem to be related to blueberries and huckleberries, notice the name bilberries (also called whortleberries like what EGW dreamed of picking) in the website.
http://www.eattheweeds.com/gaylussacia-huckleberry-history-2/ (http://www.eattheweeds.com/gaylussacia-huckleberry-history-2/)
http://montanahomesteader.com/foraging-preserving-huckleberries/ (http://montanahomesteader.com/foraging-preserving-huckleberries/)
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BlueBead Lily http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/clintonia_borealis.shtml (http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/clintonia_borealis.shtml) I hunted the picture in google images till I found it, it grows from New England down to WNC as it's southern most range.
I thought that stuff looked familiar. I'm not used to seeing it after it goes to seed. We always just called it Clintonia. It doesn't grow just anywhere; it has a preferred habitat, and often when you find it, you can also find Pink Lady's Slipper nearby, along with Painted Trillium, and Bunchberry.
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Here is my next one. Taken spring last year. This plant is probably about 12inces tall. Notice that the flower is actually under the leaf instead of over. I'm guessing that this shouldn't be very hard and it is one of the very few (of my flowers) that I know for certain what it is.
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Looks like May Apple to me (Podophyllum peltatum). We don't have them here in the frozen wastelands of Maine, but they were common in Maryland when I lived down there.
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The flower is beautiful in its simplicity.
Wally posted while I was typing so I searched his suggestion. My vote is with Wally. :)
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It's May Apple in flower, lovely and wild and delicate.
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I have knowledgeable friends! :) Yes it's a May Apple. Not sure how far they spread across the US so as Wally pointed out they may not grow near you.
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I'm going to need some help with this one. Yes, I know it should be easy but the name as left me at the moment. This year I'm gonna try to remember to get more of the plant. That would help in identifying it.
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click to enlarge
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Pink like an evening primrose, built like the aster & daisy family, looks like multiple flowers per stalk, does it grow wild ?
Is it a pink kin to "daisy fleabane" a wild aster ?
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https://youtu.be/RJAXWy2nZxQ (https://youtu.be/RJAXWy2nZxQ) beautiful flowers
https://youtu.be/LjCzPp-MK48 (https://youtu.be/LjCzPp-MK48) time lapse flowers
https://youtu.be/tsmzOCzDY6w (https://youtu.be/tsmzOCzDY6w) fireflies "lightning bugs"
https://youtu.be/QD8cTddcHus (https://youtu.be/QD8cTddcHus) mushroom time lapse
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Ed, it was wild that much I can tell you but that is about it. I guess maybe I shouldn't have posted because not only do I not know what it is but I don't even remember now how big/small it was. I'm much better at animals and their tracks since there is a limited variety comparted to the plants of this world.
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(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8731/28474806031_272a9a31e8_k.jpg)
This time I know what it is before I posted the picture. :) If it'll help as it's kind of hard to tell from the pic but the flower is inverted and this was found by a stream in the mid-atlantic.
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One of the more spectacular wildflowers. There are varieties out west as well. We always called them "Tiger Lilies." They were always a good one to show botany students, because the pistil and stamens are so large.
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It is beautiful! I have seen one in the coast range of California. I think it is rare here. I have some photos I will try and find. Don't know its name.
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One of the more spectacular wildflowers. There are varieties out west as well. We always called them "Tiger Lilies." They were always a good one to show botany students, because the pistil and stamens are so large.
Wally, this is what I thought also at first. But what made me question myself was that the flower is inverted (upside down). However, I admit that what confused me at first is that the coloring is almost exactly that of a Tiger Lily which is almost everywhere here on the sides of roads. However, because of the inverted flower I asked for some help and this is the answer I got. It's actually called "Turk's Cap Lily"
http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=LISU
To get this picture I didn't see the stinging nettles I was walking through until it was too late. Ughh.. that hurts. lol
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When clicking on the picture imagine my delight to see where it was taken. My home county.
IMAGE INFORMATION
Photographer: Cressler, Alan
County: Transylvania
State: NC
Location Notes: Blue Ridge Parkway.
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And all this time I thought Transylvania was in Romania!!
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It is beautiful! I have seen one in the coast range of California. I think it is rare here. I have some photos I will try and find. Don't know its name.
Humbolt Lily maybe?
http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=4804
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Yes, Jim, that is it. I did not know it is not only rare in California, but is endemic to California. But, you found it elsewhere? I have seen it twice in the same place. Not sure why it does not bloom every year. It is the only one I have seen. It is close to my property in the mountains. Was tempted to move it onto my property, but knew it was rare, so left it where it was. Thanks for posting the photos and the research. I was told it was quite rare, but did not know its name.
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Here is a map where it has been observed. http://www.calflora.org/entry/dgrid.html?crn=4804
Jim, we both were blessed. The only areas where it has been reported is Southern and Central California. I thought because of its name, it would be found in Humbolt Co. But, there are no observations there reported. Ought we report our sightings? Or is the map out of date?
On second thought, if we did, California might put my property into a United Nations Trust and kick everyone out of the area. No, we will not report our sighting. :( Let's keep it a secret, Jim.
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With such a rare flower maybe you're correct in keeping the secret to yourself. I can't visually tell a difference between your lily and my lily but they have two different common names and two different scientific names so they must be a bit different.
In the long I agree we were both blessed. I had never seen such a flower before. While this next flower is even rarer I don't have any qualms about not seeing smelling it.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-are-so-many-corpse-flowers-blooming-at-once
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From Richard
I thought Transylvania was in Romania
Richard, it used to be before Romania absorbed it. Once there were two Transylvania's, but now only one officially left. But Western NC is a good place to keep it.
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Hepatica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatica)
Hepatica; Sweet flower of the shade
Pink, Lavender and blue and white your dress
You show your modest face in every glade
and blossom there some lonely one to bless.
Hepatica; I love thy tints so rare
reflecting all the colors of the sun
you tell me of the heavenly Father's care
and help me live & smile till my short day is done.
Hepatica; Tis in the early spring ya bloom
I come to seek your sunny little face
and find you as you burst your leafy tomb
my foot prints near, each will mark the place.
Ada Burgess
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If you know what this is I'd like to know too!
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Interesting. Is that a mushroom or a flower?
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Vicki, I believe it's a mushroom. I did a new trail this weekend as my last backpacking trip for the year. I've nicked named my hike "tour de mushrooms". I've never seen so many different kinds of mushrooms in my life. I might share a few more but i was hoping there might be a mushroom expert among us who could identify it for us.
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Google to the rescue ;D Recognized them as fungi / mushrooms otherwise didn't have a clue.
They resemble "black trumpet" mushrooms - if Google image search is working ok. Looked up wild mushrooms and was clued in to lookup "black trumpet" mushrooms.
https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Guide-Wild-Mushrooms-Mushrooming/dp/1620877317 (https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Guide-Wild-Mushrooms-Mushrooming/dp/1620877317) did a look on the inside of the book as well.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/384424518169593171/ (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/384424518169593171/)
http://wineforest.com/pages/black-trumpet-mushrooms (http://wineforest.com/pages/black-trumpet-mushrooms)
http://pnwwildmushrooms.com (http://pnwwildmushrooms.com)
http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles7.htm (http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles7.htm)
http://www.offthegridnews.com/off-grid-foods/5-edible-wild-mushrooms-anyone-can-find-with-a-little-help/ (http://www.offthegridnews.com/off-grid-foods/5-edible-wild-mushrooms-anyone-can-find-with-a-little-help/)
https://wholeearthharvest.com/shop/mushrooms/fresh-black-trumpet-mushrooms/ (https://wholeearthharvest.com/shop/mushrooms/fresh-black-trumpet-mushrooms/)
http://www.marxfoods.com/fresh-black-trumpet-mushrooms (http://www.marxfoods.com/fresh-black-trumpet-mushrooms)
http://www.bobkellerphoto.com/Wild_Mushrooms.html (http://www.bobkellerphoto.com/Wild_Mushrooms.html)
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Well Ed, if you're correct that means they were edible. However, I'll have to watch someone else eat one before I'd try it. :)
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If I find any, or better yet if there are any local mushroom hunting clubs or groups, and I will try some and let you know. Hopefully Linda won't need to post the results . ;D
http://wineforest.com/pages/how-to-clean-mushrooms (http://wineforest.com/pages/how-to-clean-mushrooms)
http://arkansaslife.com/4-know-how-to-source-some-truly-wild-mushrooms/ (http://arkansaslife.com/4-know-how-to-source-some-truly-wild-mushrooms/)
http://bangordailynews.com/community/foraging-for-edible-and-medicinal-mushrooms-for-novices/ (http://bangordailynews.com/community/foraging-for-edible-and-medicinal-mushrooms-for-novices/)
https://foodmadam.com/2014/08/28/ah-the-maine-black-trumpet-mushroom/ (https://foodmadam.com/2014/08/28/ah-the-maine-black-trumpet-mushroom/)
http://mushroom-production.com/mushrooms-101/all-about-black-trumpet-mushrooms/ (http://mushroom-production.com/mushrooms-101/all-about-black-trumpet-mushrooms/)
https://youtu.be/o8L0MoTnV84 (https://youtu.be/o8L0MoTnV84)
http://www.haggen.com/produce/a-wild-winter-mushroom-trio/ (http://www.haggen.com/produce/a-wild-winter-mushroom-trio/)
http://www.npr.org/2011/09/17/140549233/irene-aftermath-when-it-rains-it-spores (http://www.npr.org/2011/09/17/140549233/irene-aftermath-when-it-rains-it-spores)
https://youtu.be/t-1r5BynR-g (https://youtu.be/t-1r5BynR-g)
https://turkeysong.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/black-trumpets/ (https://turkeysong.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/black-trumpets/)
http://skillcult.com/blog/2012/04/05/black-trumpets (http://skillcult.com/blog/2012/04/05/black-trumpets)
Thanks for getting me started - until a few min's ago I had never heard of "black trumpet" mushrooms. :o ;D
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Jim, do you tent it or are they one day hikes ?
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Jim, do you tent it or are they one day hikes ?
Hey Cp, I most definitely as you say "tent it". Half the fun is laying in your tent and listening to the creek you're camped beside or any of the other night sounds. If I know it's not gonna rain I'll leave off the rain fly so I can stare out the screen and watch the moon or stars. Outside of a plethora of mushrooms this time I saw large coyote shoot across the trail in front of me like ghost not making a sound and I heard and saw a raven. They don't live where I do so I'm always grateful to see one. As they say it's the simple things.
Here is a pic to prove that I tent it. Not that you didn't believe me already.
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Ok. I'm not sure we will be able to identify it since it's so hidden but here is another mushroom.
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There are some who read here who will probably immediately recognize this flower. It's definately a regional flower and tiny tiny. If memory serves me correctly it was about 1/2 the size of my pinky finger fingernail. They may get larger I do not know but that was the size when I took the pic.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3910/33224959216_de732fda23_o.jpg)
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What comes to mind is "Red Maids," but I'm not sure, since it's been so long since I saw them growing--and that was more than 45 years ago in Calif.
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Wally! your memory has served you well. They are indeed Red Maids (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calandrinia_ciliata)!
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Where did you take the picture? I thought they were a western flower.
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Where did you take the picture? I thought they were a western flower.
Your reasoning skills have not failed you either Wally :) I took that picture the same place I took this picture.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2828/33224743816_1f0dfc4d6c_k.jpg)
A couple of weeks back I made a trip to the Superstition Mountains to hike with an old friend.
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Nice to know that I haven't totally lost my mind. ;D
I've never been to the Superstition Mts. They look interesting, though. Most of my time in Arizona (other than a few of trips to the Grand Canyon) has been spent in the southeast corner (Chiricahua Mts.) and in the desert. That's where a lot of Arizona's unique birds are found.
My last true hike in Arizona was in the spring of 1969. I foolishly let 2 friends talk me into hiking from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, down to the Colorado River, and than back out again--in one day! It was a 20 mile hike. They were both long distance runners; I was not. ::)
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I foolishly let 2 friends talk me into hiking from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, down to the Colorado River, and than back out again--in one day! It was a 20 mile hike. They were both long distance runners; I was not. ::)
Now that would be a hike. Now they have warning signs about people to not over estimate their physical abilities. If they have to pull you out, you have to pay for the effort. I saw the trail from the edge and I can could tell by all the switchbacks it would be one "interesting" hike. Besides I hate long down hills. They kill my knees. I'd much rather go up hill even if I do get out of breath.
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Well, I was 18 years old then. Other than being really tired at the end, I wasn't the worse for wear. I'm not sure I'd even attempt it now, at my advanced age. ;D Down first and then up, is the worst kind of hiking, in my opinion. I'd rather go up when I'm fresh, and down at the end.
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Trumpet Lichen (Cladonia Fimbriata)
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This won't take much guessing, especially for Wally :)
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1773/44004854482_d97400477e_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2a3yo8C)
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It is that time of year. Our freezer has a good supply of them.
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This year I have never before walked through so many blueberries in my life. You could just bend down and scoop up a handful without much effort.
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Does anyone know their ferns?
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1812/30185258648_2523f6bb87_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MZnkKW)
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It would be easier to tell if they weren't so clustered together. One individual fern would be easier to identify. The first thing that came to mind was Bracken, but I'd need a better look.
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Yes Wally, they are Bracken Ferns. I'd say they make up about 85% of the fern population in the UP. After a rain they make for a very wet hike.
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Have forgot what their name is - I like the colors They are in the redhot poker family. I would love to buy a few of them, especially if shade tolerant.
I assume these two varieties are tropical so can't grow them in zone 7a or 7b
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