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Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)Observer
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Growing along disturbed area cleared from a forest access road.
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Mapleleaf Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)Observer
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Streamside. After flowering. Fruit appearing.
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Blackhaw (Viburnum prunifolium)Observer
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Streamside. After flowering. Fruit appearing.
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White Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus)Observer
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Streamside. After flowering. Fruit starting to form?
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Witch-hazel Cone Gall Aphid (Hormaphis hamamelidis)Observer
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On witch hazel growing in sandy soil near stream.
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Blueberries, Cranberries, and Allies (Genus Vaccinium)Observer
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Small 1.5 ft shrub on a short rocky cliff.
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Smooth Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum)Observer
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Small plant streamside on small rocky cliff
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Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus)Observer
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Streamside in very sandy soil. 3 foot leggy shrub.
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Section Hexastylis (Section Hexastylis)Observer
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Between upland forest and streamside.
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Painted Trillium (Trillium undulatum)Observer
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Upland forest. Around 3000' elevation
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Dwarf Iris (Iris verna)Observer
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Upland forest. Mixed pine - hardwoods. Around 3000'elevation
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Chestnut Oak (Quercus montana)Observer
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Top of a rocky ridge. Leaves broader than chinkapin oak and habitat not suited for swamp chestnut oak.
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Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)Observer
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Found stream side, but the population stretched up the sunny, rocky hillside as well.
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Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum)Observer
zac417Description
Bowed over tree still growing from stump. Found in upland mixed pine-hardwood forest.
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Common Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)Observer
zac417Description
Found in sunny opening near the stream lowlands.
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Section Hexastylis (Section Hexastylis)Observer
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Near a decaying tree stump in upland forest.
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Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)Observer
zac417Description
Next to trail on an embankment in an upland forest.
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Mapleleaf Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)Observer
zac417Description
Found strem side in mixed pine-hardwoods forest
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White Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus)Observer
zac417Description
Found stream side in a mixed pine-hardwood forest.
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River Birch (Betula nigra)Observer
zac417Description
Found right next to the stream. Characteristic bark and twigs.
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Painted Buckeye (Aesculus sylvatica)Observer
zac417Description
Found in mixed hardwood-pine forest, close to a stream.
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Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)Observer
zac417Description
Flower and leaf fallen on trail. Found streamside with mixed river bottom species.
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Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)Observer
zac417Description
Found streamside.
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Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)Observer
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Bottom of the gorge, streamside.