2007-06-09 Hwy. 130 roadside in Brunswick County, NC Photo Gallery by Jim Fowler at pbase.com

2007-06-09 Hwy. 130 roadside in Brunswick County, NC

2007-06-09 Hwy. 130 roadside in Brunswick County, NC plus additional plants from the Green Swamp. Well, I have to hand it to David McAdoo (once again) for pointing me to an area I have passed by time and again while getting from one place to another. The roadside was alive with Calopogon tuberosus by the thousands. It was difficult deciding which ones to photograph. I've included some of the wide variety of color forms I found. This roadside also had Calopogon pallidus, Venus fly-traps, and two species of Spiranthes that were fading and too pitiful to photograph.

The second part of this gallery contains Asclepias images from one small roadside area in the Green Swamp. These plants are too beautiful not to include for you orchidophiles (even though they are not orchids).

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Calopogon pallidus - a few of them were still in bloom on the roadside	Calopogon tuberosus	Calopogon tuberosus	Calopogon tuberosus
Calopogon tuberosus - probably the deepest magenta I've ever seen	Calopogon tuberosus - unusual lilac coloration	Calopogon tuberosus - white form - saw about twenty of these plants scattered among the "normal" ones	Calopogon tuberosus - party colors!
Cleistes divaricata one of a few on the roadside	Venus fly-trap - there were quite a few groups of these in bloom	Asclepias lanceolata	Asclepias lanceolata
Asclepias lanceolata	Asclepias lanceolata	Asclepias species - perhaps A. rubra?

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Shirley Curtis		11-Jun-2007 19:49
Thanks again Jim, it's always a pleasure to look at your beautiful shots of your orchid trips. Shirley

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