[OrchidJulie]

Here are some small Pterostylis or greenhood orchids. They make a trap for little black ants to crawl through in order to pollinate themselves.

Super! Thanks, Rob. Did you know that Darwin wrote a book on "the various contrivances by which orchids are pollinated"? (sorry too early to quote the title exactly, but that's the gist; at the moment I have too much blood in my caffeine stream)

[jgnfld]

Super! Thanks, Rob. Did you know that Darwin wrote a book on "the various contrivances by which orchids are pollinated"? (sorry too early to quote the title exactly, but that's the gist; at the moment I have too much blood in my caffeine stream)

Darwin Online: Fertilisation of Orchids

The .pdf links on this page to the chapters don't work but the text and image links do.

[Crooski]

Iberis sempervirens 'Snowflake'

[OrchidJulie]

Darwin Online: Fertilisation of Orchids

The .pdf links on this page to the chapters don't work but the text and image links do.

Thanks very much!

[ramseybuckeye]

Another that has me baffled that I can't find anything about, yet. There are tiny ants crawling inside the flowers

[jgnfld]

Another that has me baffled that I can't find anything about, yet. There are tiny ants crawling inside the flowers


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Sheep laurel. Grows in bogs/wetlands/tundra in the NE from VA on up to arctic Labrador to the north, northern Ontario to the west, and subarctic Newfoundland to the east. I would have thought though that NC would be a bit southerly for them but to tell you the truth they seems a little ratty. Are they at altitude, at least? They are ubiquitous here on the bogs/tundra on the Avalon Peninsula where I live. But we still are just above freezing.

Single flowerlets make nice macro shots. I don't have any uploaded here but here is a pic of the whole flowertop in prime habitat I took with my old K-50/Sigma 17-50mm back in 2015. Geolocation says this is a ways down the Deadman's Bay path out on Cape Spear, NL. VERY exposed location. But they take it fine.

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[Geodude]

Onion Blooms

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[jersey]

Don't know what they are, found them in a forest


K-50 + 55-300 PLM

[jgnfld]

Don't know what they are, found them in a forest


K-50 + 55-300 PLM

Cypress Spurge...an ornamental introduced to NA around Civil War times. It is considered excessively invasive in many climes though in Newfoundland you see it in gardens often enough. Toxic in pastures and spreads densely which through the root system which makes it very unpopular in some areas.

[ramseybuckeye]

Sheep laurel. Grows in bogs/wetlands/tundra in the NE from VA on up to arctic Labrador to the north, northern Ontario to the west, and subarctic Newfoundland to the east. I would have thought though that NC would be a bit southerly for them but to tell you the truth they seems a little ratty. Are they at altitude, at least? They are ubiquitous here on the bogs/tundra on the Avalon Peninsula where I live. But we still are just above freezing.

Single flowerlets make nice macro shots. I don't have any uploaded here but here is a pic of the whole flowertop in prime habitat I took with my old K-50/Sigma 17-50mm back in 2015. Geolocation says this is a ways down the Deadman's Bay path out on Cape Spear, NL. VERY exposed location. But they take it fine.

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Thank you for that info! It is actually a different related species know as Carolina Sheep Laurel, Southern Sheepkill, Carolina Wicky, or Carolina Bog Myrtle (Kalmia carolina), very poisonous to livestock. The place I found it has a lot of unusual plants, many of them carnivorous. It's got two kinds of unique ecosystems, the longleaf pine savanna, and pocosin, there is also straight swamp areas.

[jersey]

Cypress Spurge...an ornamental introduced to NA around Civil War times. It is considered excessively invasive in many climes though in Newfoundland you see it in gardens often enough. Toxic in pastures and spreads densely which through the root system which makes it very unpopular in some areas.

Thanks! Here it is called Wilczomlecz Sosnka, I've done a quick research. It is in natural environment here in Poland, probably no one notices it though it was used in traditional medicine in old times

[robjmitchell]

These were likely lit up!

[Crooski]

Myosotis alpestris, Blue with yellow heart

[Geodude]

Calceolaria Blooms

[noelcmn]