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| Asclepias purpurascens - Purple Milkweed |
One of my cohorts on a botanical outing along Technology Boulevard (of all places) speculated that we may need to reevaluate the revulsion naturalists, naturally, feel toward the ugly long clear-cut swaths of powerline right-of-way that scar the modern surface of our earth. As our walk today illustrates they sometimes provide an oasis for some botanical beauties that otherwise would be crowded out of modern life. What a diversity of botanical beauties we found under the powerlines this morning. Please Georgia Power, don't spray herbicide here! The most outstanding attraction today is the rare Purple Milkweed (Asclepias purpurascens) in glorious bloom. What a beautiful plant! It has been identified nowhere else in Georgia. The Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia states that there are only 60 individual plants in the state. I think we saw more than 60 under the powerlines this morning.
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| Asclepias purpurascens - the rare Purple Milkweed and a very bedraggled Monarch butterfly |
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| Cornus foemina (Cornus stricta) |
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| I don't know nothin' 'bout sedges. |
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| I don't know nothin' 'bout sedges. Carex squarrosa? |
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| Steve Bowling and Max Medley watch as Alan Cressler sets up a photo of Asclepias purpueascens. |
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| Steve Bowling and Max Medley watch as Alan Cressler sets up a photo of Asclepias purpueascens. |
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| Asclepias purpurascens - Purple Milkweed |
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| Wild Garlic, Allium sp. (canadense?) |
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| Matelea sp. (obliqua?), Milkvine |
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| Matelea sp. (obliqua?), Milkvine |
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This Katydid has little eye-like spheres on its antennae. I wonder what purpose those serve? |
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| Green Dragon, Arisaema dracontium, Berry College Campus, Floyd County |
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| Amorpha fruiticosa? glabra? |
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| Rosa setigera, Prairie Rose |
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| Amorpha fruiticosa? glabra? |
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| Green Dragon, Arisaema dracontium, Berry College Campus, Floyd County |
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| Asclepias purpurascens - the rare Purple Milkweed |
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| Erythemis simplicicollis, Eastern Pondhawk (female) |
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| Phlox sp. |
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| Phlox glaberima |
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| Ruellia strepens |
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| Insect porn: Cycnia tenera, Dogbane tiger-moths, mating on Dogbane (Indian Hemp), Apocynum cannabinum |
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| Carex frankii, I don't know nothin' 'bout sedges |
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| Jack-In-The-Pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum |
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| Jack-In-The-Pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum |
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| Scutellaria integrifolia |
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| Rosa carolina, Carolina Rose |
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