New River and Camp Creek Ephremels 800' Elevation Difference

I've been running and exploring on New River and at Camp Creek State Park the last couple of week and have noticed a big difference in peak flowering of ephemerals. New River is roughly 1200' in elevation while Camp Creek is 2050'.


First New River on April 7

Yellow Mandarin

Phlox

Redbud 

Twisted Bellwort 

Large Flowering Trillium

Large Flowering Trillium

Foam FLower 

Miterwort

Waterfall on Mill Creek

Silver Bell

Dwarf Ginseng  

Wild Ginger

Squirrel Corn 

Phlox

Dwarf Larkspur

Fumewort

Dwarf Larkspur

Miterwort Camp Creek April 13th

Camp Creek April 13th

Trillium Camp Creek April 13th

Twisted Bellwort Camp Creek April 13th

Falls after 2-3 iches of rain

Trillium Camp Creek April 13th

2020 Spring Ephemerals in Southern WV 3-24-2020

#364 - Harbinger-Of-Spring

Harbinger-Of-Spring is a wildflower that I've known about and can identify, but had never came across it before. So it becomes the 364th new West Virginia wildflower for my attempt to photograph and record every wildflower that I can in West Virginia. 

Bluebells

Red Trillium

Trout Lilly 

Hepatica 

Hepatica 

Blue Cohosh

Sessile Trillium

Dutchmen's Breeches 

Blood Root 

Bee on Cutleaf Toothwort

2020 Spring Wildflowers

Trail Running and seeing Wildflowers already
(and Snakes? on Glade Creek Trail on  March 12, 2020

Trout Lilly- March 9, 2020 Camp Creek 

Spring Beauty March 12, 2020 Glade Creek 

Spring Beauty

Hepatica March 12, 2020 Glade Creek

Hepatica March 12, 2020 Glade Creek

Hepatica March 12, 2020 Glade Creek

Sedge- March 12, 2020 Glade Creek

Spice Bush March 16, 2020 Glade Creek

Cutleaf Toothwort March 16, 2020 Glade Creek

Trillium almost in Bloom   March 16, 2020 Glade Creek

Botanising from SC to WV in One Day

During a family vacation in the Carolinas, I had the opportunity to visit the

Anne Springs Close Greenway, a private Nature Preserve in Fort Mill, SC.
 I was there early Friday morning and when we arrived home Friday evening, I headed to the Brush Creek Preserve near my home in WV.  It's interesting to see the variety and similarities that 2400 feet elavation difference and 200 miles separation makes. At Anne Springs, I saw Catesby Trillium (Trillium catesbaei) along with several others. 

Catesby Trillium (Trillium catesbaei)

The whole time I was in SC, I was worried I would miss peak bloom at Brush Creek. But, I hit it perfect this evening. Below are WV pctures

Bloodroot

Large-Flowered Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) and
Long Spurred Violet

Purple Trillium or Erect Trillium

A Patch of the thousands of Large Flowered Trillium 

Large Flowered Trillium 

Mitrewort

Mitrewort

Wild Ginger

Foam Flower

Trout Lilly

Gaywings or Fringed Polygala

Gaywings or Fringed Polygala

Creeping Phlox

Pussytoes and Creeping Phlox on a shale barren

Female Pussytoes

Male Pussytoes