Flower ID
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That meadow beauty looks like Rhexia virginica.
That last photo, number 64 is a puzzle. What kind of habitat? What does the inflorescence look like?
That last photo, number 64 is a puzzle. What kind of habitat? What does the inflorescence look like?
Bob,#61 is the flower, it was laying on the ground and looked like it was trampled so I propped it up with a stick. It was in a darker area with a lot of tree cover in an area with a lot of ferns growing.
Bob, The location is only a few minutes walk from the road in the vicinity of B.C.C. I'll PM my cell#.
I counted about 8 plants in the area and I'll definately be there next year. It has been years since I've seen a Ladyslipper. 
Here is another flower I missed. Anyone have an ID.
Here is another flower I missed. Anyone have an ID.
Make sure you visit the spot multiple times since most likely only a few will mature, and as I found out this year it may not be fully mature when you think it is. If you are early and it looks wilted, give it some time to perk up. I thought the one I was following was past prime and I was wrong.
Guy
Bob, These are in a wooded area but there are farms less than a mile away. Mostly between an old marl pit and now nonexistant railroad tracks.
Guy, Thanks for the advice, next spring I'll stop by once a week since the spot is on the way home from work.
Tom, something Guy emailed me jogged my memory. I think that is a toxic plant called fly poison. Now I really want to see it. He emailed me this photo he found on the net thinking it was the same as a Zigidenus he and I found while canoeing a couple years ago. I don't think it is, I think its fly poison, and very much like yours.
http://www.wildflower.org/image_archive/640x480/SAW/SAW_04069.JPG
Amianthium muscaetoxicum is a match. I have been looking at Allium and Camassia till my eyes got blurry. Guy's brain is like a database and he can reference anything he has seen since birth!
Bob,
I think the reason I had the wrong photo was when I did a search for Zigadenus Leimanthoides the site that came up with that photo also had the Zigadenus nuttallii with it. That is actually what the plant is in the photo I sent you according to this site. They call it a Death Camus or Poison Onion.
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=25118
Guy
I think the reason I had the wrong photo was when I did a search for Zigadenus Leimanthoides the site that came up with that photo also had the Zigadenus nuttallii with it. That is actually what the plant is in the photo I sent you according to this site. They call it a Death Camus or Poison Onion.
http://www.wildflower.org/gallery/result.php?id_image=25118
Guy