Spring 2022

 Posting less this year, but still loving everyday in the field looking for and photographing WW Native Wildflowers.
Below are pictures and dates of old favorites from Spring of 2022 in order to track bloom dates. 
Plus one new wildflower for for my quest to find, photograph and list as many of West Virginias wildflowers as I can. All wildflowers from Glade Creek area of New River National Park unless otherwise noted

I found this interesting little flower on a run along Glade Creek Campground road in the New River National Park.(May 14, 2022) Wild Comfrey a new plant for me and one I just literally stumbled on. 

368- Wild Comfrey  

Cynoglossum virginianum 

Hepatica March 15, 2022

Bloodroot March 15, 2022

Hepatica March 21, 2022

Purple Trillium March 21, 2022

Hepatica March 24, 2022

Bloodroot March 24, 2022

Trout Lilly March 24, 2022

Dwarf Larkspur March 31, 2022

Bluebells March 31, 2022

Dutchmens Breech's March 31, 2022

Squirrel Corn March 31, 2022

Twisted Bellwort April 11, 2022

Sessile Trillium April 11, 2022

Blue Eyed Mary  April 11, 2022

Carolina Silver Bells  April 11, 2022

Gaywings  April 25, 2022

Painted Trillium May 18, 2022

Pipevine May 14, 2022

 

Sweet Azalea June 27

Sweet Azalea June 27

Ragged Fringed  Orchid June 26, 2022

Chicken of the Woods July 20, 2022

April 2021 Wildflowers on New River + New One

 I continue to run along the river and on trails and on April 13 I found two new flowers for my quest to find, photgraph and list as many of West Virginias wildflowers as I can. I find fewer new ones each year, last year it was Harbinger of Spring in this same area. 

The trail I found the first ones on is one I typically use earlier for Bluebells. This year I got there a little late and the Bluebells were tall and gangly but I found Blue Eyed Mary covering areas of the forest in drifts and very fragrent. I'm not sure how I missed them before but they make 366 WV Wildflowers for me. Later on the main trail beside a creek I found Mountain Phlox ( Phlox latifolia ) . A rarer phlox that is smaller thank normal Woodland Phlox and a deep pink. # 367 WV Wildflowers.

Below them are many other Ephremels; the season is at peak and begining to wane. 

                           # 366- Blue Eyed Mary

Blue Eyed Mary

Blue Eyed Mary

 

Sessile Trillium

Bluebells

Bluebells

Large Flowering Trillium

Large Flowering Trillium

Foam Flower

 

                                                          #367 - Mountain Phlox

Trout Lilly (red anthers)

Trout Lilly (yellow anthers)

Phlox

Wood Betony Yellow variety 

Wood Betony Red Variety

Stone Crop

Carolina Silverbell

Purple Trillium

March Ephremals in New River National Park

 This post will show the progression of Wildflowers on one roadside during the month of March. 
The winter was fairly harsh with colder weather and more snow and ice than the past few years. But when it broke and warmed up, it was all at once. And the warm weather continues, but with two days of cold weather later this week to take March out like a lion.
       I've been running a couple days a week on this road becasue it has the best show of Ephremals any where I know. Today, I got a 11 mile run in and wildflowers are enar Peak, in fact Hepatica is gone in some places and Purple Trillium is starting to fade. But so far there has been no White Trillium, Squirrel Corn or Drawf Ginsang and Bluebells are just starting as is Drawf Larkspur. I am making a video which I will link to soon.

                                                                            March 12 

Hepatica Pink Variety

Blood Root Bloom Tight

Harbinger of Spring

                                                                        March 16

Virginia Spring Beauty

Hepatica Bluish Variety 

Carolina Spring BEauty

Hepatica Bluish Variety

                                                                        March 22

Blood Root

Dutchmans Breechs

Purple Trillium Begining to open

Hepatica Light Blue Variety

Bluebells Begining to open

Sessile Trillium No color in flower 

Purple Trillium Opening

Purple Trillium Rare White Variety with Red Ovary

                                                                        March 26

Spice Bush

Blue Phlox

Sesslie Trillium with color starting

Dwarf Larkspur starting to bloom

Blue Cohosh

Bloodroot

                                                                    

                                                                        March 29

Trout Lilly (red stamens)

Mirerwort

Virginia Spring Beauty 

Bellwort

Bluebells

Trout Lilly (Yellow Stamens)

Hepatica Blue Variety

Sessile Trillium

Yellow Fumewort