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Vernal arboreal yellow.
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
30 March 2022.
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▶ "Stylophorum diphyllum —commonly called the celandine poppy or wood poppy— is an herbaceous plant in the poppy family (Papaveraceae). It is native to North America, where it is found in the eastern United States and Ontario. Its typical natural habitat is moist forests.
From early spring to early summer, the deep yellow flowers of the celandine poppy appear as a brilliant display on the forest floor. The flowers have 4 yellow petals, two soon-falling sepals, many yellow-orange stamens, and a single knobby stigma. After fertilization, a bristly blue-green pod hangs below the leaves."
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The South Fork Peachtree Creek flows in a reinforced floodplain, within...
Friendship Forest Wildlife Sanctuary
City of Clarkston, Georgia, USA.
15 May 2025.
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Ruderal horsenettle blooming on the shoulder of a road, in front of...
Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
31 May 2020.
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▶ "Solanum carolinense —the Carolina horsenettle— is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. It is a perennial herbaceous plant, native to the southeastern United States and is considered a noxious weed in several US states. The stem and undersides of larger leaf veins are covered with prickles. All parts of the plant, including its tomato-like fruit, are poisonous to varying degrees [but are very popular with bees, other insects, and birds]."
— Wikipedia.
▶ This is a closeup. The blossoms appear larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
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▶ Ruderal (adjective)
"growing where the natural vegetational cover has been disturbed by humans"
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Small rapids on the South Fork Peachtree Creek.
DeKalb County (Medlock Park), Georgia, USA.
18 June 2023.
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▶ As seen from a spur of the Watershed Trail, one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre suburban Piedmont forest located in three Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan-area DeKalb County parks: Mason Mill Park, Medlock Park, and Ira B. Melton Park.
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Yellow flag iris (Iris pseudacorus), blooming wild on marshy ground, near...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
22 April 2022.
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“Energy is contagious, positive and negative alike. I will forever be mindful of what and who I am allowing into my space.” Alex Elle
Raindrops bring New Life and Universal Joy
to everything they touch.
(Jeffrey Favero)
Looking close... on Friday! - Spring Flora
Colorful Nature - Orange/Yellow Thursday
(photo by Freya)
Thanks for views, faves and comments! ;-)
Cascades of Burnt Fork Creek...as seen from a century-old granite pedestrian bridge along the South Peachtree Creek Trail.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
29 April 2025.
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New spring growth on a loblolly pine tree.
Freedom Park (connector trail)
Atlanta (Inman Park), Georgia, USA.
27 April 2024.
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Native wild white indigo (Baptisia alba), blooming in the...
Trailhead Community Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 May 2025.
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Native red splendor, in...
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
15 May 2022.
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▶ Spigelia marilandica —Indian Pink, Woodland Pinkroot, Worm grass— is a is a perennial wildflower [in the Loganiaceae family], found in moist, open forests [of the eastern US]. Spigelia marilandica has a cluster of several flowers composed of a red corolla tube which flares open with 5 narrow, pointed, greenish-yellow lobes. It flowers in June, attracting hummingbirds. It is rarely taller than about 30 inches. Poisonous.
— Wildflowers of the United States.
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A tiny chervil wildflower, blooming in...
Trailhead Park of the East Decatur Greenway
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
10 April 2025.
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☞ This is a closeup. These tiny blossoms —maybe ⅒ inch wide (¼ cm)— appear much larger in this image than they did in 'real' life.
☞ Can a fellow Flickr-er identify exactly which species of chervil this is? Southern chervil (Chaerophyllum tainturieri), perhaps?
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The residents of a beaver lodge have been busy building a dam on Cecilia Creek.
Seminary Wood in Decatur Legacy Park
City of Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 March 2025.
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Whilst visiting friends in Malvern I was walking past a garden and chanced upon an ornamental "Coccinella" apple blossom tree that had sprung into an early cloud of delicate pink and white blooms. It had rained a little earlier in the morning, so the blossoms were covered in a spray of raindrops which glinted in the sunlight.
The "Coccinella" is a hardy variety of ornamental apple tree that blooms profusely in reddish-pink and white blossoms. The flower apple tree is a magnificent ornamental tree that can be a real feature in any garden as it changes dramatically as seasons come and go. So not is only a delight in spring when it sends forth a 'frou-frou' of blossom, but is also one of the most beautiful trees in autumn.
At the beginning of spring, pink and carmine red buds appear on the ornamental apple tree. The color then changes to shift to variations of pure white, pink or red as the blooming evolves. At the end of the blooming season, the foliage covers the entire space, with its distinctive deep green that will turn to orange red in autumn. At the end of summer, small red, orange and yellow apples appear on the tree for the most part of winter.
Don't call it a weed: it's bloomin' orchard grass!
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
24 April 2025.
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▶ "Dactylis glomerata — commonly known as cock's-foot, orchard grass, or cat grass — is a species of flowering plant in the grass family (Poaceae). It is a perennial tufted grass native throughout most of Europe, temperate Asia, and northern Africa, widely used for hay and forage, and naturally found in meadows, pastures, roadsides, and rough grassland. It has been introduced into North America, New Zealand, and Australia, and is now widely naturalised.
Dactylis glomerata grows in dense perennial tussocks [clumps] to ½ to 4½ feet tall (20–140 cm) with a distinctive tufted triangular flowerhead, 4-20 inches long (10–50 cm), either green (in shade) or red- to purple-tinged (in full sun). The plant is also known as cat grass due to its popularity for use with domestic cats."
— Wikipedia.
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Yellow iris, growing in the wild, on the banks of...
Decatur (Legacy Park), Georgia, USA.
20 April 2022.
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Tall, upright white wild indigo wildflowers are among the first native plants of the spring season to bloom in the Trailhead Community Park, on the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
15 April 2023.
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▶ Baptisia alba —commonly called white wild indigo or white false indigo— is a herbaceous, perennial plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, native to central and eastern North America, growing in grasslands, favoring moist soils, and typically 2 to 4 feet tall (0.61 to 1.2 m).
White, pea-like flowers occur from a long spike inflorescence [cluster of flowers arranged on a stem], and bloom from April to July, earlier in the southern part of the range. Leaves have an alternate arrangement, and are trifoliate [three-parted], narrow, and oblong. Clusters of large, black seedpods often remain attached to the naked winter stems. Bumblebees pollinate the flowers. The plant can be fatal to cows and irritating to humans, if ingested.
— Wikipedia.
— Lady Bird Johnson Wildlife Center.
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Whereas ox-eye daisies sprout in late summer, it's the fleabane daisies (Erigeron annuus) that spring up now, in early spring!
DeKalb County (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
7 April 2025.
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Bucolic riffles on Shoal Creek West Tributary.
City of Decatur (Midway Woods), Georgia, USA.
20 April 2024.
▶ Another view, downstream: here.
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Eastern Bluestar, blooming wild, alongside the...
Decatur (Old Depot District), Georgia, USA.
4 April 2021.
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▶ "Amsonia tabernaemontana, Eastern Bluestar is an herbaceous perennial that is native to the American South and north up to Illinois. It grows to about 3 feet in height and displays clusters of blue star-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring. It is a member of the Dogbane family which means your dog won’t like this plant. However, hummingbirds and various bees, moths, and butterflies will."
— Prairie Moon.
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Over the dun hill,
A tree comes into blossom.
A moment recursive
In Brigid's turn.
City of Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
21 March 2025.
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📷 Photographer's note:
Here — at the Candler Park Municipal Golf Course— the Stone Mountain Trail (managed by the PATH Foundation) and the Freedom Park Trail (managed by the Freedom Park Conservancy) converge along the same route.
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Native "hairy spiderwort" wildflower, blooming in...
Trailhead Community Park, of the...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
5 May 2024.
▶ See a furled bud: here.
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▶ "Tradescantia hirsuticaulis — commonly called hairy spiderwort — is a species of plant in the dayflower family (Commelinaceae) that is native to south-central United States. It is frequently found in thinly wooded deciduous forests, plains, prairies, and healthy fields, often alongside other native wildflowers.
Tradescantia grows 1-2 feet tall (30–60 cm). It is a perennial that produces purple or blue flowers in the spring on herbaceous stems. Each spiderwort flower bud blooms for a single day, hence the 'family' name. Each flower has many buds that help the plant appear in flower for many weeks from early April through late June.
The common name 'spiderwort' refers to the sap which dries into web-like threads when a stem is cut; the common name 'hairy,' because of the hair-like filaments surrounding the stamens."
— Wikipedia.
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Look down! It's a tiny, native 'weed' with a sublime name —"Small Venus' Looking-Glass"— seen blooming alongside a sidewalk.
City of Avondale Estates, Georgia, USA.
6 May 2024.
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▶ "Triodanis perfoliata — commonly known as Clasping bellflower, Clasping bellwort, or Small Venus' looking-glass — is a small, annual flowering plant belonging to the bellflower family (Campanulaceae), native to North and South America (from Canada to Argentina). It grows in prairies, along the edges of woods and rocky outcrops, and in disturbed soil, such as roadsides [and sidewalks!].
Triodanis perfoliata grows to a height of 4-18 inches (10–46 cm). On the upper part of the stem, the plant produces bell-shaped five-petaled flowers, approximately ½ inch or less across (1.3 cm), that range in color from blue-violet to pink-purple to lavender, with a white center. There are also flowers on the lower part of the stem but they do not open. These are cleistogamous — automatic self-pollinators that produce seeds."
— Wikipedia.
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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Bared arms extended,
Kupolė tardy to festoon,
She stands,
Majestic in the city,
As if sculpted upon a plinth.
Atlanta (Druid Hills), Georgia, USA.
29 March 2023.
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▶ Kupolė is a Lithuanian deity of spring.
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A bearded iris (Iris × germanica), blooming in a garden.
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
22 April 2025.
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Tall, yellow ragwort wildflowers, growing abundantly in the wetlands of Glenn Creek in early spring.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
22 March 2024.
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▶ "Packera anonyma — commonly known as Small's Ragwort, Appalachian Ragwort, Southern Ragwort, Plain Ragwort — is a wildflower in the aster family (Asteraceae), native to much of the eastern United States, south of New England.
Small's Ragwort flourishes in habitats that are wet during the winter and dry in summer and is one of the first native flowers to bloom in abundance, beginning in March and continuing into June. The ray and disc flowers are bright yellow, 8-15 rays per flower. The plant grows up to 3 feet tall (1 m)."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
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▶ Seen on the purple-blazed Three Creeks Trail: one in a "labyrinth of soft-surfaced trails" in and around a 120-acre Piedmont forest in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. The trail connects Ira B. Melton Park to the larger Mason Mill Park. The three creeks of the trail's name are Glenn Creek, Burnt Fork Creek, and South Fork Peachtree Creek; the first two are tributaries of the third.
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Pungent aroma and brilliant color, but...a weed? Wild garlic, blooming, in...
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
27 May 2023.
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▶ "Allium vineale —commonly known as wild garlic, onion grass, crow garlic, or stag's garlic— is a perennial, bulb-forming species of wild onion in the genus Allium and family Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis). It is native to Europe, northwestern Africa, and the Middle East. The species has been introduced in Australia and North America, where it has become a noxious weed.
All parts of the plant have a strong garlic odour. The underground bulb is 0.4 to 0.8 inches in diameter (1–2 cm). The main stem grows 1 to 4 feet tall (30–120 cm), comprising a number of small red bulbils (exterior bulbs) with a few pinkish-green flowers, 3⁄32 to 3⁄16 inches long (2.5 to 4.5 mm)."
— Wikipedia.
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On 5 June 2023, Flickr's editors selected this image for inclusion in Flickr's daily Explore feature.
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Common grape hyacinths (Muscari atlanticum), blooming —wild and untended— in the shade of an oak tree.
Atlanta (Candler Park), Georgia, USA.
21 March 2025.
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▶ Photographer's notes:
☞ This is a closeup. These small hyacinth blossoms —about 6 inches high (15 cm) and 3 inches wide (7½ cm)— appear much larger in the image than they did in 'real' life.
☞ According to NC State Extension, the plant recently has been reclassified from Muscari neglectum to Muscari atlanticum.
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A maypop blooms in June. (Or you might call it purple passionflower.) I call it wild!
Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.
10 June 2023.
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▶ "Passiflora incarnata —commonly known as maypop or purple passionflower— is a fast-growing perennial vine with climbing or trailing stems. A member of the passionflower genus Passiflora, it is found as a wildflower in the southern United States, growing in thickets, disturbed areas, near riverbanks, and near unmowed pastures, roadsides, and railroads.
☞ The flowers normally begin to bloom in July with five bluish-white petals. They exhibit a white and purple corona, a structure of fine appendages between the petals and stamens. The large flower is typically arranged in a ring above the petals and sepals. They are pollinated by insects such as bumblebees and carpenter bees.
☞ The fleshy fruit —referred to as a maypop— is an oval yellowish-green berry about the size of a hen egg, very popular with wildlife. The gelatinous pulp encases the seeds, the larval food of a number of butterfly species.
☞ The Cherokee in the Tennessee area called the plant, "ocoee"; now, the Ocoee River and valley in Tennessee are named after the plant, which is designated the Tennessee state wildflower."
— Wikipedia.
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A trio of rue-anemones blooms along the South Fork Peachtree Creek.
DeKalb County (Clairmont Heights), Georgia, USA.
26 March 2025.
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▶ "Thalictrum thalictroides (syn. Anemonella thalictroides) —commonly known as rue-anemone or windflower— is a herbaceous perennial plant in the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae), native to woodland in eastern North America. It has white or pink flowers surrounded by a whorl of leaflets with many yellow stamens in the middle."
— Wikipedia.
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Blue lyreleaf sage, blooming wild, in...
DeKalb County (Northlake), Georgia, USA.
9 April 2022.
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▶ "Salvia lyrata —commonly known as lyreleaf sage— is an herbaceous perennial in the mint family (Lamiaceae) and native to the eastern and central United States. It may grow 1 to 2 feet tall, with leaves that originate at the base of the stem. Each basal leaf [arising from the base of the plant.] is lobed like a lyre, hence the species name, and lavender flowers occur in rings around the stem from mid-spring to early summer, attracting butterflies."
— North Carolina Cooperative Extension
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