They come up there every year. I usually have around 6 that bloom but it's usually over several weeks. Right now I have 2 and a few that are about an inch tall. The late ones usually bloom in late May.
Pine Barren Flora
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The local patch I check was well along too. A lot is ahead of schedule this spring.
Some of the cedar swamps are inundated with water. Combine all the rains with those river rats (beaver), and it makes for tough going. Forget everything your body taught you about exploring a cedar swamp in drier conditions. When the swamps are flooded nothing you step on is stable, not even the hummocks, because the water seeps underneath them. Everywhere you step you take a chance that the footing is not stable.
Bob; great pictures as always. I believe the picture with white stalks with yellow heads coming up out of the water are fruitbodies (apothecia) Mitrula elegans. They are found in early spring fruiting in large numbers in standing pools. I also like the picture right below it. It looks like the swamp is snowing with green flakes laying on the hummocks. That's my take anyway.
Thank you! I see those matchsticks every year around this time. A refreshingly colorful sight in a damp swamp filled with green foliage and amber water.
I see on Wiki that they call them "bog beacons" elsewhere. A good name.
Thanks Joe. The rim and tire are in Double-trouble State Park. An old home site I think, from around the 40's. A defunct baby carriage:
Joe, I also saw out of the corner of my eye as I was leaving, a rim with no tire on it. It looks pretty cool. If I go back I'll snap a photo of it.
Bob
I know what you mean about everything being unstable in a flooded swamp.I usually just take to the water when that happens.I would rather walk down a chest deep ditch then try to pull a balancing act and go in head first.If the bottom isn't muck then the deeper water usually has a more stable bottom,problem is when you hit muck it's either revert back to trying to stay out of it or just belly down and crawl
Mudder boots look like they could handle the muck well but they would tear up so much plant life in a cedar swamp I think I"d save them for slat marsh mud flats,besides in a swamp they would probably get you hurt.
I know what you mean about everything being unstable in a flooded swamp.I usually just take to the water when that happens.I would rather walk down a chest deep ditch then try to pull a balancing act and go in head first.If the bottom isn't muck then the deeper water usually has a more stable bottom,problem is when you hit muck it's either revert back to trying to stay out of it or just belly down and crawl
Mudder boots look like they could handle the muck well but they would tear up so much plant life in a cedar swamp I think I"d save them for slat marsh mud flats,besides in a swamp they would probably get you hurt.
Al, I agree for the most part. But yesterday I was hitting unseen roots under the water. That is almost like bumping into something in the dark.
That was a bad one. There was another tree in front of that one totally knocked down.
True, but I doubt whether its even there anymore, and its certainly 14 years older than when I found it. Back then, American Pickers was just a gleam in someone's mind, so I had no idea it might have brought something. How about that patina, it's roached, right?