This is the last of the images from last Sunday's trip to the Atlantic Coastal Plain. These images are split between the Green Swamp Preserve and the Francis Marion National Forest. They represent some of the many late spring wildflowers from those areas...
I'm more used to seeing this one in a lighter shade of purple. It grows in large populations and is easy to spot in wet areas because it is up to three feet tall...
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This is the last of the images from last Sunday's trip to the Atlantic Coastal Plain. These images are split between the Green Swamp Preserve and the Francis Marion National Forest. They represent some of the many late spring wildflowers from those areas...
I see this one everywhere I go in the Southeast -- especially along roadsides and fallow fields...
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On our weekend trip, we saw quite a few of this orchid along the roadsides. The flower is up to two inches long, and is usually some shade of light pink to medium pink. Very rarely will it produce a stem with two flowers...
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These dozen or so images represent some of the wildflowers we saw on our weekend trip through southeastern North Carolina. This is a very wet area of the state, and the ditches and meadows are full of spring and early summer wildflowers.
The flowers in this shot were found near a small stream in Brunswick County. Spider-lilies are always striking in their beauty and easy to spot at highway speed. I need a bumper sticker that reads, "I brake for wildflowers"... ;-D
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Weekend trip to southeastern North Carolina. This beautiful orchid has been found at this roadside site for many years, and this year was no exception. Many of the plants showed two flowers per stem while most showed only a single flower. This orchid prefers to have its "feet" in the water, so it inhabits wet ditches and pond margins.
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