Northwest GA Wildflowers, etc.: April 2008 Photo Gallery by Joel McNeal at pbase.com

Northwest GA Wildflowers, etc.: April 2008

Photos from a daytrip to Carter's Lake re-regulation dam, Shirley Miller Wildflower Trail (Crockford-Pigeon Mountain Wildlife Management Area), Keown Falls and Pocket Recreation Area (Chattahoochee National Forest). Shirley Miller Trail is on the Cumberland Plateau, while the other sites are in the Ridge-and-Valley physiographic province.

Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) midstory with American Columbo (Frasera carolinensis) rosettes	Fire Pink: Silene virginica	Fire Pink: Silene virginica	Yellow Trilium: Trillium luteum	Yellow Trilium: Trillium luteum
Whip-poor-will Flower: Trillium cuneatum	Whip-poor-will Flower: Trillium cuneatum	Rusty Blackhaw: Viburnum rufidulum	beaver dam and wetland	Dissected Toothwort: Cardamine dissecta
Eastern Bluestar: Amsonia tabernaemontana	Dissected Toothwort: Cardamine dissecta	Shooting Star: Dodecatheon meadia	Common Fleabane: Erigeron philadelphicus	Wood Sedge: Carex pennsylvanica
Smallflower Baby Blue Eyes: Nemophila aphylla	Bladdernut: Staphylea trifoliata	Bladdernut: Staphylea trifoliata	Wild Columbine: Aquilegia canadensis	Red Buckeye: Aesculus pavia
Yellow Trilium: Trillium luteum	Southern Nodding Trilium: Trillium rugelii	road to Shirley Miller Wildflower Trail	woods with Blue Phlox and Whip-poor-will Flower	Bent Trillium: Trillium flexipes
Slender Toothwort: Cardamine angustata	Blue Cohosh (yellow form): Caulophyllum thalictroides	Aniseroot: Osmorhiza longistylis	Canada Violet: Viola canadensis	understory with Bent Trillium, Wood Poppy, Fernleaf Phacelia, etc.
slope with Bent Trillium and Fernleaf Phacelia	rocks with Foamflower, Woodland Stonecrop, and Sharp-lobed Hepatica (leaves)	Woodland Stonecrop: Sedum ternatum	Woodland Stonecrop, Sharp-lobed Hepatica leaves, and Fernleaf Phacelia	Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) and Fernleaf Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida)
Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) and Fernleaf Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida)	Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) and Fernleaf Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida)	Wild Columbine: Aquilegia canadensis	view from underneath Pocket Falls	Pocket Falls
Bent Trillium: Trillium flexipes	Bent Trillium: Trillium flexipes	Bent Trillium (Trillium flexipes) and Fernleaf Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida)	downstream of Pocket Falls	Fernleaf Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida)
Blue Phlox, Rue Anemone, Fernleaf Phacelia, Whip-poor-will Flower, etc.	Wild Hyacinth: Camassia scilloides	Wild Hyacinth: Camassia scilloides	Wild Hyacinth: Camassia scilloides	Ridge-and-Valley overlook
Birdsfoot Violet: Viola pedata	Birdsfoot Violet: Viola pedata	Great Yellow Woodsorrel: Oxalis grandis	Bashful Trillium: Trillium catesbaei	Pinxterbloom Azalea: Rhododendron periclymenoides
Keown Falls with Pinxterboom Azalea	smaller falls at Keown Falls	Azure Bluets: Houstonia caerulea	Dwarf Crested Iris (Iris cristata) and Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia)	Foamflower, Azure Bluets, and Dwarf Crested Iris
Dwarf Violet Iris: Iris verna

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