American Beech: Fagus grandifolia, fruit (involucre) |
American Beech: Fagus grandifolia |
Fly Poison: Amianthium muscitoxicum |
Fly Poison: Amianthium muscitoxicum |
Fly Poison: Amianthium muscitoxicum |
Fly Poison: Amianthium muscitoxicum |
View from summit of Mt. Mitchell |
View from summit of Mt. Mitchell |
Fraser Fir: Abies fraseri |
Fraser Fir: Abies fraseri, maturing female cone |
Red Raspberry: Rubus idaeus var. strigosus |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes in habitat |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes |
Mountain St.-John's-wort: Hypericum graveolens |
Mountain St.-John's-wort: Hypericum graveolens |
Cornhusk Lily: Veratrum viride |
Cornhusk Lily: Veratrum viride |
Cornhusk Lily: Veratrum viride |
Cornhusk Lily: Veratrum viride |
Red Spruce: Picea rubens, spent male strobili |
Red Spruce: Picea rubens, maturing female cones |
Broad-toothed Hedge-nettle: Stachys latidens |
Turk's-cap Lily: Lilium superbum |
Turk's-cap Lily: Lilium superbum |
Red Trillium: Trillium erectum, fruit |
Self-heal: Prunella vulgaris |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes |
Bumblebee on Small Purple Fringed Orchid |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes |
Small Purple Fringed Orchid: Platanthera psycodes |
Summit of Mt. Mitchell |
Road to Mt. Mitchell summit |
View from summit of Mt. Mitchell |
Balsam Woolly Adelgid-killed Fraser Firs |
Fraser Fir: Abies fraseri, underside of needles |
Understory of spruce/fir forest |
Understory of spruce/fir forest |
Usnea lichens on lower fir branches |
Beaked Dodder: Cuscuta rostrata, early growth |
Red Spruce: Picea rubens, branchlet |
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium |
Yarrow: Achillea millefolium |
Red Spruce: Picea rubens, early-stage female strobili |
Dwarf beech/birch ridgetop forest with dense sedge understory |
Rosebay Rhododendron: Rhododendron maximum |
Dwarf beech/birch ridgetop forest |
Craggy Gardens area view |
Bristly Greenbriar: Smilax hispida |
Bristly Greenbriar: Smilax hispida, young prickles |
Bristly Greenbriar: Smilax hispida, mature prickles |
White Bergamot: Monarda clinopodia |
White Bergamot: Monarda clinopodia |
Northern Sundrops: Oenothera tetragona |
Table Mountain Pine: Pinus pungens |
Table Mountain Pine: Pinus pungens, mature cones |
Bee-balm: Monarda didyma |
Flowering Raspberry: Rubus odoratus |
Bee-balm: Monarda didyma |
Dutchman's Pipe: Aristolochia macrophylla, habit |
Common Milkweed: Asclepias syriaca |
Common Milkweed: Asclepias syriaca |
Gray's Lily, Roan Lily: Lilium grayi |
Gray's Lily, Roan Lily: Lilium grayi |
Gray's Lily, Roan Lily: Lilium grayi |
Gray's Lily, Roan Lily: Lilium grayi |
Gray's Lily, Roan Lily: Lilium grayi |
Blue Ridge St.-John's-wort: Hypericum mitchellianum |
Blue Ridge St.-John's-wort: Hypericum mitchellianum |
View of Roan High Knob from Round Bald |
Cloud ascending Jane Bald |
View SW from Grassy Ridge Bald along Appalachian Trail towards Jane Bald (Roan High Knob in background) |
View from Roan Highlands |
View of grassy balds atop Roan Highlands |
Gray's Lily: Lilium grayi, habitat |
Gray's Lily: Lilium grayi |
Gray's Lily: Lilium grayi, habitat |
Gray's Lily: Lilium grayi, habitat |
Gray's Lily: Lilium grayi, habitat |
View of Round Bald from Jane Bald |
Cloudland Trail to Roan High Bluff |
Dark-eyed Junco nest |
View downwards from Roan High Bluff |
Vertical drop from Roan High Bluff |
Rhododendron gardens area, Roan Mountain |
Fireweed: Chamerion platyphyllum (Epilobium angustifolium) |
Fireweed: Chamerion platyphyllum (Epilobium angustifolium) |
Fireweed: Chamerion platyphyllum (Epilobium angustifolium) |
Fireweed: Chamerion platyphyllum (Epilobium angustifolium) |
Wild Bergamot: Monarda fistulosa |
Biennial Gaura: Gaura biennis |