Tree standing in an ecotone between woodland and bog.
Seminary Wood in Legacy Park: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 17 December 2024.
Morning sunlight dapples that which remains.
In the woodland at Hawthorne Nature Trail: DeKalb County, Georgia, USA. 17 November 2024.
Posted 28 December 2024. Until next year: thank you for stopping by the blog.
Postal Pond in Decatur Legacy Park: City of Decatur, Georgia, USA. 26 November 2024 (5:46 pm ET).
Summer vestige versus autumn gamut: a woodland at the confluence of Glenn Creek with South Fork Peachtree Creek.
Ira B. Melton Park: DeKalb County , Georgia, USA. 8 November 2024.
Persicaria sagittata — commonly known as American tearthumb, arrowleaf tearthumb, or arrowvine— is a plant, in the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae), native to the eastern half of North America (as well as eastern Asia!). It grows in moist areas along lake shores, stream banks, etc.— Wikipedia.
Persicaria sagittata is an annual herb growing up to 7½-feet tall (200 cm), with prickles along the stem. Leaves are up to 4 inches long (10 cm), heart-shaped or arrowhead-shaped (unusual for the genus). Flowers are white to pink, borne in spherical to elongated clusters up to 0.6-inches long (15 mm).
I find that most wildflowers are really tiny compared to what we normally think of as 'flowers', but no less interesting and beautiful.
Hylodesmum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, sometimes called ticktrefoils or tick-trefoils. It is sometimes treated as part of Desmodium. It includes sixteen species native to eastern North America, sub-Saharan Africa, and southeast Asia.— North Carolina Cooperative Extension.
Hylodesmum nudiflorum — previously known as Desmodium nudiflorum and commonly known as naked-flowered tick trefoil, panicled leaf tick trefoil, stemless tick trefoil, or naked-stemmed tick clover— is a species of perenial flowering plant in the legume family (Fabaceae), native to eastern North America. Hylodesmum nudiflorum is typically found in mature, open hardwood woodlands in moist, sandy, gravelly, or loamy soil with high organic content. It is a nitrogen-fixing species through symbiosis with soil-borne bacteria.
Hylodesmum nudiflorum's delicate pinkish blooms, ⅓-inch (0.8 cm), are sweetly fragrant, occurring mid to late summer, borne on leafless stems. Reminiscent of pea-like blooms, the flowers have a rounded upper petal and three narrower lower petals, longer than the upper.
— Wildflowers of the United States.
— Wikipedia.
an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain, typically by surviving erosion. The word 'monadnock' is a Native American term.— Wikipedia.
WGTV is a PBS (Public Broadcasting System) member television station licensed to Athens, Georgia, United States, a legacy of the station's early years as a service of the University of Georgia. Owned by the Georgia Public Telecommunications Commission (technically under the Georgia Board of Regents, along with the University System of Georgia), it is the flagship station of the statewide Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) television network, serving the Atlanta metropolitan area from a transmitter atop Stone Mountain just east of Atlanta.— Wikipedia.
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