[at-l] AT Flower Pics From my 2001 Hike - plus a strange plant pic!

[janl2@mindspring.com (Jan Leitschuh)]

Hi Clark,

Fascinating!
I don't recognize your talled-stemmed white flower, but I hope some clever
naturalist-type identifies it. (Perhaps someone already has - I'm on
digest). It's unlike any I've seen before.

But I can help on the "purple flower."
I believe it is transcendecia (sp?), commonly known as "spiderwort." I used
to have some in my garden, although I've seen the smaller, wilder versions
frequently. Usually in a ditch tho, not a ridgetop.

Really great to see your pics, thanks. I think the idea of picture-sharing
as a topic comes up is a fine enhancement.
Jan the Flower Bug

> Message: 36
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:12:56 -0500
> From: Clark <icw39@ncfreedom.net>
> Reply-To: icw39@ncfreedom.net
> Organization: none! :)
> To: ATListserv <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Subject: [at-l] AT Flower Pics From my 2001 Hike - plus a strange plant pic!
>
> Here are a few random flower pics; those in the know feel free to help
> us all identify them all!
>
> 1)  Rhododendron Bloom - near Dragon's Tooth [note the bumblebee]:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/aoe
>
> 2)  Red wildflowers - also near Dragon's Tooth:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/amw
>
> 3)  Spring rhododendron blooms - near Tinker Cliffs:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/ant
>
> 4)  What kind of a flower is this? - near Tinker Cliffs:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/aob
>
> 5)  Rhodo Blazes in VA:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/aol
>
> 6)  Purple wildflower - VA:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/aof
>
> 7)  More rhododendron blooms:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/aoy
>
> 8)  Butterfly feeding on __?__:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/apb
>
> 9)  Rhododendron with mountain view:
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/apw
>
> 10)  Green plants, tied and placed in the Trail by someone - one of the
> strangest sights I ever saw . . . for a distance of several miles right
> before Rockfish Gap these plants clearly had been gathered, tied and
> placed in the middle of the Trail . . . I speculated to myself that they
> might have been the work of some Wiccans, or a similar group . . . since
> I was hiking alone at the time, I had no one to ask . . . anybody out
> there have any ideas or similar experiences in that area?  I think there
> was a supposedly haunted house nearby?  Sorry for the lousy picture, but
> I was in a hurry to get to the Gap before dark . . . many of the
> placements were more substantial and obvious than this picture shows.
> http://gallery.backcountry.net/ThruThinker-2001AT/aqg
>
> thru-thinker
>

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