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June is a good month for wildflowers along the Blue Ridge Parkway. You miss some of the early spring blooms but it’s not so late in the season to get some species still blooming at higher elevations.
It’s always a challenge trying to identify plants from photos but it’s like solving a puzzle. The shots you see here are only one or two of many I took of the same plant to get leaves, stems, and other dull photo stuff that help in identification. When you take close ups of stems, you often see the tiny hairs not obvious in a regular “photo”.
I’m 99% sure of the genera listed here and am probably off on some species, but that happens when you only have a photo to go by.
References used in identification were as follows:
C. Campbell, R. Hutson, A. Sharp. 2013. Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers, 5th ed. Windy Pines Publishing, Northbrook. 156 pp.
B. Medina, V. Medina. 2002. Southern Appalachian Wildflowers. Falcon. Guilford, CT. 215 pp.
P. White.2003. Wildflowers of the Smokies. Natural History Association. Great Smokey Mountains National Park. 236 pp.
D. Sibley. 2009. The Sibley Guide to Trees. Knof. New York. 426 pp.
H. Gleason. 1952. The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, Volume 1. Hafner, New York. 482 pp.
H. Gleason. 1952. The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, Volume 2. Hafner, New York. 655 pp.
H. Gleason. 1952. The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, Volume 3. Hafner, New York. 595 pp.
Flora of North American Editorial Committee. 1993. Flora of North America, Vol. 2. Oxford University Press, New York. 475 pp.
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