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Living Things

NOTE: This page is a work-in-progress. Feel free to send your corrections and your pics to sutallee.trace.trail.stewards@gmail.com.

Flora

Wool Sower Gall on a White Oak

Wool Sower Gall on a White Oak

The gall derives from a Callirhytis seminator wasp. Its harmless to the plant.

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Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum)

Native mason bee feeding on wild geranium.

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Wood Anemone (Anemonoides quinquefolia)

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Violet Woodsorrel (Oxalis violacea)

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Robins Plantain (Erigeron pulchellus)

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Rattlesnake weed (Hieracium venosum)

Loads of it along a clay wall on the White trail.

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Star Chickweed (Stellaria pubera)

Nomad bee on Star Chickweed. Native chickweed is an important early nectar source for our native bees.

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Piedmont Azalea (Rhododendron canescens)

aka, mountain azalea

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Green and Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum)

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Flowering Dogwood (Conrus florida)

A Soldier Fly on Flowering Dogwood.

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Foamflower (genus Tiarella)

These usually grow along creek bed walls.

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Azure blue (Houstonia caerulea)

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Bull thistle

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Birds Foot Violet (Viola pedata)

These do well in terrible soil conditions so you see them along the raw clay on the roadside.

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Bashful Wakerobin (Trillium catesbaei)

Mushrooms

Mushrooms

Some of the wide variety of mushrooms found at the Trace. Please, please, please do not consume any of these unless you are sure you know what you're doing.