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Jim Darling Nature Area

Between exposed bedrock, in the channel of the Haw River.

I was heartened to find that at least one of these ferns, albeit only a single frond of it, had survived a recent prescribed burn.

Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest Maple Springs Overlook

At Indian Brook Park

The first photo compares the fruit of U. rubra and U. americana. Ulmus rubra is on the left. These trees can difficult to ID from each other. This time of year the fruit makes it easier.

Common in this woodland.

Broom on Vaccinium
aka Pucciniastrum goeppertianum

The Preston Brook watershed in Camel's Hump State Park

At Cornwall Swamp, one of seven named swamps along Otter Creek

At the Shaw Mountain Natural Area

avec Étienne Léveillé-Bourret et Sarah Thibodeau-Caouette

The Joseph Battell Wilderness in the Green Mountain National Forest

At the Helen W Buckner Preserve At Bald Mountain

Bartram Trail, Franklin, North Carolina

On a spur path off the main trail.

At Camel's Hump State Park

At Camel's Hump State Park

NOTE: Photos 3, 4, 5, 6 taken the next day, and added - a necessary action to correct my disregard for details on the first day's observation.

infecting Juncus acuminatus which is its host.

HODKINSON, I. and BIRD, J., 2000. Sedge and rush-feeding psyllids of the subfamily Liviinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Psylloidea).

The flower peduncles (on a leaf it would be called the petiole) are less than 1.5 cm.

At the Preston Pond Conservation Area

The flower stalk is not associated with any leaves, for at this time of year this orchid has no leaves.

On the Black Creek and Maquam Creek Trails at the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

In the Breadloaf Wilderness of the Green Mountain National Forest

This animal was as curious about me as I was of her! https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/trscavo/67293-moose-encounter