Turk's Cap Lilly by Garrie Rouse

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Turk's Cap Lilly

Headwaters of Blackwater Swamp, Virginia

This handsome lilly was found growing in an open marsh developed under a power line right-of-way that cut across a portion of the Blackwater Swamp, Prince George County, Virginia

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Garrie Rouse		30-Dec-2003 01:05
I've noticed that this picture has received the most hits of any of my wildflower photographs. And, although I was a bit surprised at first, I'm not quite so upon furthur reflection. The first time I encountered this plant was back in 1977. Only then, it was growing on the side of a mountain in the Blue Ridge at about 3000 ft elevation. At the time I was an engineering major and couldn't have told you the difference between a rose and a rhododendron. But, I was so struck by the beauty of the plant that I took a picture of it with my old Minolta 101. I believe that was the first flower that I had ever photographed. Now, more than a quarter century later, I find myself as a botanist studying some of the lesser known (and certainly less conspicuous) members of our native flora. But, it was this wildflower (perhaps more than any other) that got me started ... Garrie

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