Blue Ridge Parkway Ridgeline Trail – May 8, 2023

Posted on May 14, 2023 by WCBC

The Blue Ridge Parkway Ridgeline Trail (better known to many of us as the Painted Trillium trail, although some suggested it should be renamed the Pinkshell Trail, as you can tell from the pictures). Photography by Penny Longhurst, Lucy Prim, & Joe Standaert. Click on any picture to zoom and enter the slide show. Plants that are non-native to North America are indicated by an asterisk (*) placed after the species name.

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Parkway Deep South – May 5, 2023

Posted on May 10, 2023 by WCBC

A new field trip and it’s a keeper! Our timing was perfect. Spring ephemerals were busting out all over and we identified some new plants. As Sunflower used to say, “It was glorious!”. Stops were John Rock Overlook, Wolf Mountain Overlook, Rough Butt Bald Overlook, Haywood Gap, and Bear Pen Gap Overlook. Fortunately Lucy had written articles about two of the plants we saw. So, if you’d like to know more about Cardamine clematitis, check out page 9 in the Spring 2020 issue of Shortia and for Anemone lancifolia, look at page 10 in the Spring 2022 issue. 

Photography by Ken Borgfeldt, Penny Longhurst, Lucy Prim, & Aleta Tisdale.  Click on any picture to zoom & enter the slide show.

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Craven Gap – May 1, 2023

Posted on May 6, 2023 by WCBC

Great field trip! Many different plants and loads of them. We hiked from around Milepost 379 to a mile or two beyond Craven Gap. Photography by Ken Borgfeldt, Penny Longhurst, Jim Poling, & Randy Richardson. Click on any picture to zoom. Plants that are non-native to North America are indicated by an asterisk (*) placed after the species name.

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Park at Flat Rock – April 28, 2023

Posted on May 2, 2023 by WCBC

We visited the Park at Flat Rock in September and saw wonderful fall plants, so we decided to see what was there in the spring. Seems like we were about a month too early!  Photography by Ken Borgfeldt, Cindy Carpenter, Alice Greko, & Penny Longhurst.  Click on any picture to zoom. Plants that are non-native to North America are indicated by an asterisk (*) placed after the species name.

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The Narrows at Eastatoe Creek Heritage Preserve – April 24, 2023

Posted on April 28, 2023 by WCBC

Phew! A long hike (for us) but with plenty of bang for the buck! And a few plants that were new (for some of us).   Plants that are non-native to North America are indicated by an asterisk (*) placed after the species name. Photography by Cindy Carpenter, Penny Longhurst, & Randy Richardson. Click on any picture to zoom.

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