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A closeup of a beautiful spread of mock orange blossoms, on the bank of Cecilia Creek as it flows from...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
15 June 2021.
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▶ "Philadelphus is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs from 3–20 ft (1–6 m) tall, native to North America, Central America, Asia, and (locally) in southeast Europe. They are named mock-orange in reference to their flowers, which in wild species look somewhat similar to those of oranges and lemons (Citrus) at first glance, and smell of orange flowers and jasmine (Jasminum). The genus is named after an ancient Greek king of Egypt, Ptolemy II Philadelphus."
— Wikipedia.
▶"Philadelphus inodorus [known as scentless mock orange] is native to the eastern U.S., north of Florida and east of Texas. Its habitat is anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats) and forest edges. Despite its common name, this species has sweet-smelling flowers."
— FNPS.
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Colorful landscape, but not quite yet fulsomely vernal.
Arabia Lake on Arabia Mountain
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
27 March 2023.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ On 24 April 2024, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature.
☞ Toward the far bank, see remnants of a bridge built for a former quarry.
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▶ Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
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Red mulberries (Morus rubra) have begun to appear in...
Trailhead Community Park
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 May 2022.
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Directly in front of the camera was a graffiti'd city pipe extending over Cecilia Creek (a tributary of Shoal Creek). Directly behind was a busy city street. Beauty is where you find it.
Trailhead Community Park, at the southern terminus of the...
Decatur (Midway Woods), Georgia, USA.
16 June 2024.
▶ Reverse view: here.
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▶ Photographer's note:
Not finding a catchier term during a cursory web search, I'm now calling a photo of a natural landscape containing an out-of-place manmade object or structure, an "ironic landscape". Until told otherwise!
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To think that I saw no leopards in Trailhead Community Park.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
6 June 2021.
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▶ "Doronicum pardaliances —known as leopard's bane— is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae [aster], native to western Europe, one of 38 species of showy spring-blooming plants. They produce bright yellow daisy-like flowers on strong stems. They may die down in the heat of summer and return in fall in ideal conditions."
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Stalks of native white wild indigo wildflowers, blooming in the...
Trailhead Community Park, of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
5 April 2024 / 18 April 2024.
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▶"Baptisia alba —commonly called white wild indigo or white false indigo— is a herbaceous perennial plant in the bean family (Fabaceae). It is native to central and eastern North America and is typically found in open woodland areas and prairies with tall grasslands.
The plant is typically 2 to 3 feet tall (0.61 to 0.91 m). Blooming occurs from April to July, earlier in the southern part of the range. White, pealike flowers, less than one inch wide (2.5cm), bloom along a long spike inflorescence.
There are two varieties, Baptisia alba var. alba and Baptisia alba var. macrophylla. The former [pictured above] occurs only in the southeastern US."
— Wikipedia.
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☞ left image (5 April 2024)
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☞ right image (18 April 2024)
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Onoclea sensibilis —aka sensitive fern— in...
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
24 May 2022.
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▶ "Onoclea sensibilis —the sensitive fern, also known as the bead fern— is a coarse-textured, medium to large-sized deciduous perennial fern. The name comes from its sensitivity to frost.
The fronds of Onoclea sensibilis have independent stalks originating from the same rhizome, quite different from other ferns. Clusters of spore cases (sorus), 1/10-1/6 inch in diameter (2–4 mm), appear like beads on upright fertile fronds, hence the common name 'bead fern.'
Onoclea sensibilis grows best in moist shaded or partially shaded areas, dwelling in a variety of swamp and wood habitats and roadside ditches. It is native to the Russian Far East, China, Eastern Asia, and North America, and has become naturalized in western Europe and New Zealand."
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A small field of rapeseed (Brassica napus) blooms in...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
29 April 2022.
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Red beauty in a very tiny park...
DeKalb County (Avondale Estates), Georgia, USA.
26 April 2020.
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▶ COVID-19: The statewide shelter-at-home order permits the dog and me to go for short walks. The camera comes with us.
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Pink/purple coneflowers blooming in the Trailhead Community Park native plant pollinator garden, along the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
1 June 2024.
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▶ "Echinacea purpurea — commonly known as the eastern purple coneflower, purple coneflower, hedgehog coneflower, or echinacea— is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to parts of eastern North America. Its habitats include dry open woods, prairies, and barrens.
Many pollinators are attracted to E. purpurea flowers, such as bumblebees, sweat bees, honey bees, the sunflower leafcutter bee, and the mining bee, Andrena helianthiformis. Butterflies that visit include monarchs, swallowtail butterflies, and sulfur butterflies. Birds, particularly finches, eat and disperse the seeds through their droppings."
— Wikipedia.
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Crossvine blossoming early in spring, in...
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
20 April 2022.
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▶ "Bignonia capreolata is a vine —commonly referred to as crossvine— native to the central and southern United States. The common name refers to the cross-shaped pattern revealed when the stem is cut. The vine climbs without twining but does produce tendrils. It produces long tubular red and yellow flowers that frequently have a mocha fragrance. The leaves are dark green to almost purple and are produced as opposite pairs with terminal tendrils. The vine often climbs very high, with leaves only remaining on the uppermost portion of the plant. Crossvine can spread aggressively."
— Wikipedia.
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Arches in the verdant woodland.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
30 April 2024.
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Be they ever so humble, tall daisy fleabane wildflowers have suddenly sprouted up everywhere, like (ahem) weeds. Seen here, alongside the...
Freedom Park (connector trail)
Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
29 March 2023.
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▶ "There are 191 species in the Erigeron genus, but Erigeron annuus — aka Eastern Daisy Fleabane— is one of the more widespread species [in the Aster family — Asteraceae] a native plant in both the continental United States and in Canada. Erigeron anuus is generally 2 to 3 feet tall, branching with many white-rayed [occasionally pale lavender] and yellow-centered blossoms, toothed leaves, and stems which are distinctly hairy. It blooms from mid- to late spring on through most of the summer months."
— Wildflowers of the United States.
▶ "The name fleabane is applied to a huge variety of plants but it’s really more wishful thinking than truth in this case. While there are strongly aromatic plants that are fairly effective at repelling fleas, daisy fleabane is, alas, not one of them. In fact, its expertise is in attracting insects rather than repelling them. It’s an excellent host for a variety of butterflies, moths, and beetles."
— Unmowed Blog.
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▶ Photographer's note:
Make the most of harsh noon light: spot-meter for the highlights and 'crush' the shadows!
👎 Rejection.
The administrator of a Flickr group called "Georgia in Spring" rejected this image (despite the photo abiding by their rules: in the state of Georgia, depicting spring, depicting nature, etc.). When I asked why, they summarily ejected me from the group.
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Virginia buttonweed: a tiny, white wildflower, as cute as, well, a button!
DeKalb County (Avondale Estates), Georgia, USA.
8 June 2024.
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▶ "Diodia virginiana — commonly known as Virginia buttonweed — is a plant species in the bedstraw family Rubiaceae, native to south-central and southeastern United States (and Mexico, Nicaragua, and Cuba). It can be found in swamps, wet meadows, marshes, coastal prairies, and in the mud along streams and ponds.
Virginia buttonweed is a branching, sprawling plant with small white star-shaped flowers (⅕ inch or 5 mm) of 4 petals apiece, that blooms in summer and fall. The leaves are often mottled because of a virus that attacks the foliage. The plant has thick roots by which it can spread vegetatively, thus it often shows up as a weed in lawns and other disturbed areas."
— Wikipedia.
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▶ Photographer's note:
It's a closeup. The tiny flower appears much larger in this image than it did in 'real' life. Just don't call it a weed!
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Pink ladies on meadow trail.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
23 May 2023.
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❀ Botanical note.
"Oenothera speciosa —commonly called white evening primrose, pink evening primrose, and pink ladies— is a flowering perennial in the Onagraceae (evening primrose) family, native to the American Midwest into Mexico but which has naturalized into 28 of the lower 48 United States.
Oenothera speciosa grows to 10 to 24 feet tall, featuring fragrant, bowl-shaped, four-petaled, white flowers (2 to 3 inches in diameter) with yellow anthers. The flowers often mature to rosy pink. The flowers open in the evening and remain open to late morning (all day if overcast). The 'Rosea' variety has flowers that are pale pink with bright white stigmas and a yellow center.
The genus name 'Oenothera' may have come from the Greek words 'oinos' and 'theras' meaning wine-seeker in a probable reference to an ancient use of the roots of the plants in scenting wine."
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📷 Photographer's notes.
☞ Compare to native narrowleaf evening primrose: here.
☞ As of March 2024, this meadow —and its wildflowers— no longer exist, razed for development.
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Native spiderwort wildflowers, about to bloom, creekside on the...
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
5 April 2024.
▶ See an unfurled blossom: here.
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▶ "Tradescantia virginiana — commonly known as common spiderwort, spider lily, Virginia spiderwort — is a species of perennial flowering plant in the dayflower family (Commelinaceae), native to the eastern and central United States. It can be found in moist prairies, fertile woodlands, open woods, meadows, hillsides, stony bluffs, stream banks, and along roadsides.
The plant grows 2-3 feet tall (0.6 - 0.9 m). In spring, the three-petaled flowers appear with delicate spider web-like filaments surrounding the anthers [pollen-producing reproductive organ]. The flowers only last for one day but new ones are produced daily in terminal clusters. After summer heat, the plant often reblooms in the fall. Flower colors range in shades of blue, purple, pink, magenta, or white. "
— Wikipedia.
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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▶ Photographer's note.
I call it the 'un-flash.' Natural dappled sunlight falls on a subject like a camera flash, leaving the surrounding area less illuminated. There's a risk of overblown highlights (here, I cranked up the shutter speed to 1/4000!), but I like the effect.
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Spiderwort on the creek,
Green lances akimbo.
Purple dayflowers
In morning light.
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
20 April 2022.
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▶ "Tradescantia virginiana — Virginia spiderwort— is a species of flowering plant in the family Commelinaceae, native to the eastern United States, growing wild along roadsides and railway lines. Tradescantia virginiana is a perennial herbaceous plant with alternate, simple leaves, on tubular stems. The flowers are blue, purple, magenta, or white, borne in summer."
▶ "Spiderworts are so named because the angular leaf arrangement suggests a squatting spider."
— park plaque
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Lovely, but invasive.
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
7 May 2022.
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▶ "Privet is a flowering plant in the genus Ligustrum with conspicuous heads of white flowers followed by black berries. [One of its about 50 species] is Ligustrum sinense (commonly known as Chinese privet, 杻, chǒu), native to China, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Ligustrum sinense is a deciduous shrub growing to 2–7 m tall, with densely hairy shoots. The flowers are white, with a four-lobed corolla 3.5–5.5 mm long. The fruit is considered poisonous.
Chinese privet was introduced to North America to be used for hedges and landscaping where it has now escaped from cultivation and is listed as an invasive plant in southeastern states. It is estimated that Chinese privet now occupies over one million hectares of land across 12 states ranging from Virginia to Florida and west to Texas, with detrimental effects to biodiversity and forest health."
— Wikipedia.
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Look down! It's a tiny, early-spring-blooming downy yellow violet.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
22 March 2024.
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▶ Viola pubescens — commonly known as the Downy Yellow Violet, Smooth Yellow Violet, and Yellow Forest Violet— is a plant species in the Violaceae family, widespread in central and eastern North America, growing in rich deciduous forests, dry woods, meadows, low woods, sandy woodlands, and other wooded areas.
The flower has a five-petaled, ¾ inch wide (2 cm) bright yellow blossom, with brown veins in the lower petals, blooming in early spring. Unlike other violet varieties, only one or two leafy stems are produced per root stalk, growing 4 to 10 inches tall (10-25 cm). The heart-shaped leaves are unique to this variety. Later in the season, Viola pubescens produces small bud-like flowers that do not open but self-pollinate. Both the flowers and the unopened buds produce seeds.
— Wikipedia.
— Wildflowers of the United States.
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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▶ Photo taken on the light-blue-blazed Watershed Loop: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre suburban-Atlanta Piedmont forest, located in three DeKalb County parks: Mason Mill, Medlock, and Melton.
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Spring has not arrived yet. We are trying to avoid going to the grocery store so I am using an old photo of my dying tulips.
Don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without explicit permission.
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Yucca gloriosa, blooming gloriously, in...
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
24 May 2022.
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▶ "Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae. Its 40–50 species are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves.
▶ "Yucca gloriosa var. recurvifolia —known as curve-leaf yucca, curved-leaved Spanish-dagger, or pendulous yucca— is a variety of Yucca gloriosa. It is often grown as an ornamental plant, and is native to the southeastern United States, from coastal southeastern Virginia, south through Florida and west to Texas. The inflorescence is a panicle, up to 8 feet long (2.5 m), of bell-shaped white flowers, sometimes tinged purple or red."
— Wikipedia.
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Prickly pear cactus growing on granitic soil.
DeKalb County (Stonecrest), Georgia, USA.
27 March 2024.
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▶ "Opuntia humifusa —commonly known as eastern prickly pear— is a cactus of the genus Opuntia and one of only two cactus species native to the eastern United States. Eastern prickly pear grows in hot, sunny locations with thin soil and eroded sedimentary rock on steep slopes that do not hold water."
— Wikipedia.
▶ To the upper left, notice tiny, red succulents called diamorpha.
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Spiky blossom of a witch alder, in the pollinator garden, at...
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
30 March 2022.
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▶ Fothergilla gardenii — also known by the common names witch alder, dwarf fothergilla, American wych hazel, and dwarf witchalder— is a deciduous shrub, in the Hamamelidaceae family, growing to at most 3 feet high (0.9m), native to the southeastern USA, from North Carolina to Alabama. In early spring, witch alder produces cylindrical spikes of up 1.5 inches (4 cm) before the leaves emerge, topped with small, white, petal-less, highly fragrant flowers composed of 1-inch-long filaments (2.5 cm). In autumn the leaves produce striking colors, including bright red, crimson, orange, and yellow.
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Green pitcher plant: carnivorous and endangered.
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
29 April 2022.
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▶ "Sarracenia oreophila, also known as the green pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia. It has highly modified leaves in the form of pitchers that act as pitfall traps for prey. The narrow pitcher leaves are tapered tubes that rise up to 30 inches (75 cm) from the ground, with a mouth 2 to 4 inches (6-10 cm) in circumference."
— Wikipedia.
▶ "Native to the southeast U.S., green pitcher plants are considered endangered and now only can be found in a handful of counties in northeast Georgia [including Decatur], southwest North Carolina, and northeast Alabama."
— U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
▶ Fascinatingly, the green pitcher plant becomes vegetarian later in its life cycle.
"In late summer and autumn, the green pitcher plant stops producing carnivorous leaves, and instead produces flat, non-carnivorous phyllodia [flat leafstalks that function as leaves]. The natural habitat of this species dries quickly during July and the small phyllodia are probably easier to maintain with the little water available than its spring pitchers. This is a genetic adaptation and plants kept permanently wet in cultivation also lose their pitchers in mid-summer.
Also of note is the simultaneous flowering [large yellow blossom] and pitchering at the beginning of the season as drier conditions later prevent growth of pitchers after flower production."
— Wikipedia.
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Just poking along a nature trail and noticed these growing at the base of a large tree. Anybody out there who might know species and/or common name?
Not hops, but the flowers of an American hophornbeam tree! Convergent evolution?
On the Stone Mountain Trail in Sycamore Park
Decatur (Sycamore Ridge), Georgia, USA.
13 May 2023.
▶ The blossoms of hophornbeam trees closely resemble the seed cones of hop plants (which are used to flavor beer). But hophornbeams, despite a similarity in appearance (and name), are not hops ... and, indeed, would not be particularly tasty in beer!
▶ For comparison, see an actual hop cone: here.
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▶ "Ostrya virginiana —commonly known as the American hophornbeam, eastern hophornbeam, hardhack (in New England), ironwood, and leverwood— is a species of Ostrya —deciduous trees belonging to the birch family Betulaceae— native to eastern North America.
Ostrya virginiana is a small deciduous understory tree growing to 59 feet tall (18 m) with a trunk 8-20 inches in diameter (20–50 cm). The flowers are catkins (spikes) produced in early spring at the same time as the new leaves appear. In early summer, pollinated female flowers develop into small hop-resembling fruits, 1⁄8–3⁄16 inches long (3–5 mm), changing from greenish-white to dull brown as the fruit matures."
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Honeysuckle has begun to bloom, in...
Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
12 April 2022.
▶ I'm not certain if this is native woodbine or invasive japonica.
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A photograph of three pretty white spring blossoms with a colorful textured spring bokeh digitally transformed into a panel style image with an altered perspective.
The perspective of this image I feel would suit a hallway or wall where one would like to view or create a feeling of length in their room.
Upon request, I would be happy to try to alter this image to have the matt or framed outside of the image match your wall color. Or, I can produce this exact image in the opposite direction. Just click on my email for any special requests.
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A weed by any other name.
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
14 May 2021.
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▶ "Oxalis stricta —called the common yellow woodsorrel, yellow woodsorrel, common yellow oxalis, upright yellow-sorrel, lemon clover, sourgrass, sheep weed, and pickle plant [a surfeit of names for such a tiny flower!] is a herbaceous plant native to North America and parts of Eurasia. It tends to grow in woodlands, meadows, and in disturbed areas, commonly considered a weed of gardens, fields, and lawns. Erect when young, this plant later becomes decumbent as it lies down, and branches regularly. The alternate leaves of this plant are divided into three heart-shaped leaflets (a typical trait of other species of Oxalis) that can grow up to 2 cm wide."
— Wikipedia.
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