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I finally got back into the mountains this weekend. My escape consisted of short hikes between successive waves of cold, soaking rain. Salvation nonetheless. Photos are from multiple stops along Rt 219 and its byways, including Garrett State Forest (MD), Cranesville Swamp (WV and MD), and Cathedral State Park (WV). The hawthorns are gorgeous this time of year, not to mention the second wave of spring wildflowers now coming into bloom, including fringed polygala (Polygaloides paucifolia), dwarf ginseng (Panax trifolius), red chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia), painted trillium (Trillium undulatum). and golden ragwort (Packera aurea).
#appalachia#vandalia#west virginia#maryland#allegheny mountains#wildflowers#flora#spring#cathedral state park#garrett state forest#cranesville swamp#fringed polygala#dotted hawthorn#dwarf ginseng#red chokeberry#painted trillium#golden ragwort
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Last week I saw a lot of native wildflowers but never got around to posting most of them. Here are three species I saw today: fringed polygala, dwarf ginseng, and bluets. The dwarf ginseng was about at its peak but the other two are just starting. I saw carpets of rue anemones so they get a separate post. Pretty many wood anemones too. It was good.
#pennsylvania#wildflowers#native wildflowers#spring ephemerals#april#springtime#woodland wildflowers#plants#bluets#fringed polygala#dwarf ginseng
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Eyes on the World About Us
Sometimes we hike with a purpose, My Guy and I. And on those days, he actually slows his pace down. And opens his eyes wide, much like the Red Squirrel–ever on the alert. Was it the Fringed Polygala, aka Gay Wings he sought? No, but I certainly did. Those petal-like wings are actually sepals. Two of the petals are fused into a tubular structure, thus giving this plant a “bird-of-paradise” form.…
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#dandelion#Freeport#fringed polygala#lady&039;s slippers#Maine#Osprey#painted trillium#Wolf&039;s Milk Slime Mold#Wolfe&039;s Neck Woods State Park
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n418_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Wild flowers of New York. Albany,University of the State of New York,1918. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40795511
#New York (State)#Pictorial works#New York Botanical Garden#LuEsther T. Mertz Library#bhl:page=40795511#dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40795511#Taxonomy:binomial=Polygala senega#Taxonomy:common=Seneca Snakeroot#Mountain Flax#Taxonomy:binomial=Polygala paucifolia#Taxonomy:common=Fringed milkwort#Taxonomy:common=Flowering wintergreen#flickr#flower#flowers#plant#plants#wildflower#wild flower#wildflowers#wild flowers#botany#botanical#botanical drawings#botanical drawing#scientific drawing#scientific illustration#Botanical illustration#flax#milkwort
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Exciting Sighting | Finding Fringed Polygala at Tanglewood
I always love finding new flowers to photograph. Something I have never seen before always piques my interest. Several years ago I saw these tiny little purple flowers growing along the edge of the woods where we live. I started photographing them and looking for them every year. And the flowers returned every year. Always blooming in the same little area of the woods. Never seeming to…
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#close up#do the work#flower#flowers#macro#macro photography#macrophotography#Nature#nature photography#nature up close#New York#photographer#Photography#practice#shipping#spring flowers#wild#wildflower
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5/16
Either spring is late again this year
or I am just getting more impatient
in my old age. And what does “late
again” mean? If it was this late last
year then why would I think it is
late “again” and not just occurring
on a new schedule? Is my seasonal memory
reliable enough to gauge such things?
I doubt it. I go by the wildflowers…
the trilliums and lady slippers and
the two bead lily…the foam flower
and mayflower and the fringed polygala.
The only lady slippers that are in
full bloom are the bunch below
the observation deck at Rachel Carson,
overlooking the river, where the sun
hits the little hillside most of the day.
Everywhere else, even on the front
side of the Carson loop, they will
be a good week yet. And no sign of
angel wings at all, though I found
a few mayflowers in bloom and the
foam flower is going by. Hard to say
by that, just where the spring is
in relationship to the calendar.
I assume someone is checking
to make sure the calendar is not
slipping out of sync with the appropriate
celestial events. It has happened
before…but I guess not with this
calendar. When all the springs are
late, though, you have to be suspicious.
I mean if we can not count on the
seasons, what can we count on?
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I Know Nothing Else But Miracles
I Know Nothing Else But Miracles
As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach, just in the edge of the water, Or stand under trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love — or sleep in the bed at night with anyone I love, Or sit at the table at dinner with my mother, Or look…
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#bear#beetle#damselfly#False knees#fringed polygala#jack in the pulpit#Kezar Lake#lady&039;s slipper#Leaves of Grass#loon#luna moth#miracles#moth#motion camera#New Hampshire#porcupine#seeing#senses#spring#The Fells#toad#trillium#Whitman
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bruh that last post had me wanting to list like every wildflower, moth, and bird in new england like. yall dont know how much im constantly holding back on dropping species all the time, I hate simplifying and broadening to major taxonomic groups, ‘sparrows’ WHICH SPARROW is it a Lincoln’s? Nelson’s? Seaside? White-crowned? Vesper? Clay-colored? As an ecologist unless you narrow it down it gives me very little information, they all have different niches!!
part of me wants to keep reblogging that post with more categories of organisms ok. also tumblr cut me off with the tags i was going to keep adding more about plants lmao
once you learn tree names one shade of green becomes 50. once you learn insect songs a background chorus becomes a symphony of a thousand unique voices. your world will expand ten thousand fold like seeing shrimp colors ok!!
anyway my inbox is always open, I know I don’t talk much on here directly but this in fact what I do for a living so I never want to shut up about it
#anyway surely yall know about striped maple it's soooo common in the northern US#hophornbeam is awesome#as well as hornbeam. also called musclewood#gaywings is also called fringed polygala and it's very common in new hampshire as it prefers poor acidic woodland soils#im fucking begging you to go outside and experience childlike wonder
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A variety of Polygala, colloquially known as milkwort. The name ‘milkwort’ was given to it because it was believed to increase milk yield in cattle. The third petal is called a keel petal and is distinct in having a frilled end on it. At a glance the flower resembles those from the Fabaceae family, but while they share an order, Polygalaceae is a distinct family within the order.
#polygala#milkwort#flower#bloom#fringe#surreal#unusual#luminous#glowing#fluorescence#uvivf#fantastic#colors#vivid#magical#macro#nature#garden#botany#taxonomy#photo#photograph#photography
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Fringed Polygala Polygala paucifolia
A beautiful little flower from Tioga, Pennsylvania
#fringed Polygala#gaywings#polygala paucifolia#flower#plant#nature#nature photography#flower photography
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Winter made an encore appearance to the Central Appalachians this past week, with some locations above 3000 feet receiving a foot or more of snow. By Friday, all that nasty cold and freezing precipitation had moved out and spring returned with a vengeance today, with temperatures in the upper sixties to low seventies. It was a perfect day to explore the ancient sphagnum bog at Cranesville Swamp Preserve, whose boreal wetlands community owes its existence to the cool temperatures provided by the frost pocket in which it nestles. From top: small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos) and eastern teaberry (Gaultheria procumbens) grow from a sphagnum hummock; lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium); eastern skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) growing in a damp spot near the bog’s edge; fringed polygala (Polygaloides paucifolia); dwarf ginseng (Panax trifolius); goldthread (Coptis trifolia); and downy serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea).
#appalachia#vandalia#west virginia#maryland#spring#may#allegheny mountains#bog#peat bog#shagnum#cranesville swamp#cranesville swamp preserve#small cranberry#eastern teaberry#lowbush blueberry#eastern skunk cabbage#fringed polygala#dwarf ginseng#goldthread#downy serviceberry#flora#wildflowers
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Fringed polygala and a tree shadow, May 2018.
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1) Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris)
2) Sabbatia (Sabattia chloroides)
3) Fringed Polygala (Polygala paucifolia)
4) Oswego Tea (Monarda didyma)
5) Monkey Flower (Mimulus ringens)
6) Early Golden-rod (Solidago juncea)
7) Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)
8) New England Aster (Aster Navae Angliae)
9) Cone-flower (Rudbeckia hirta)
10) Evening Lychnis (Lychnis alba)
Some more botanical illustrations taken from ‘Field book of American Wild Flowers’ by F. Schuyler Mathews.
Published 1912.
This file comes from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Wikimedia.
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Tiny Forest Floor Flower | Fringed Polygala | New York
Tiny Forest Floor Flower | Fringed Polygala | New York
Fringed Polygala. I never knew these tiny little flowers existed until I moved to where we live now. These tiny little wildflowers grow in the same area at the edge of our woods every year. The Fringed Polygala never seem to expand or grow larger. They never seem to fill in more space. They grow in small groups and as individuals. Fringed Polygala flowers pop up in seemingly random…
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#daily photo#flower#flowers#Forest#Fringed Polygala#macro#macro photography#macrophotography#New York#photo of the day#photographer#Photography#practice#purple#shipping#spring flowers#wildflower
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I thought this wildflower was interesting! Internet says it is common, but I'd never personally noticed it. I probably wouldn't have spotted it out of flower if I have come across it, the leaves are pretty low profile and strongly resemble wintergreen. My mother actually picked a leaf to smell and check that wintergreen hasn't secretly had peculiar bright purple flowers all along.
Fringed polygala, Polygaloides paucifolia
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