Rock and Shoals State Natural Area: Clarke Co., GA. I decided to visit following storms the previous evening, as the moss and lichens always color up nicely after good rains.
Piedmont Quillwort: Isoetes piedmontana
Piedmont Quillwort: Isoetes piedmontana with Chorus Frog tadpoles
Piedmont Quillwort: Isoetes piedmontana
Isoetes piedmontana: corm, roots, and sporangiate leaf-bases
Isoetes piedmontana: abaxial side of megasporangiate leaf
Isoetes piedmontana: adaxial side of megasporangiate leaf with spores visible
Isoetes piedmontana: backlit megasporangiate leaf base
Isoetes piedmontana: split megasporangium
Isoetes piedmontana: megaspores
Granite flatrock with Diamorpha smallii (red) and Grimmia laevigata (green moss)
Granite flatrock with Diamorpha smallii (red) and Grimmia laevigata (green moss)