Found it
Jun 26, 2015 21:55:25 #
We were talking about the different Sorrels here recently. The Northern Wood Sorrel Oxalis montana is getting rare here, but I found some in bloom the other day.
Mike
Mike
Jun 26, 2015 22:05:44 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
We were talking about the different Sorrels here recently. The Northern Wood Sorrel Oxalis montana is getting rare here, but I found some in bloom the other day.
Mike
Mike
Very nice shot, Mike.:thumbup: :thumbup:
Is this the kind that is invasive in the deep south? I don't see purple on the leaves.
Jun 26, 2015 23:00:22 #
Jun 26, 2015 23:21:32 #
STVest wrote:
Very nice shot, Mike.:thumbup: :thumbup:
Is this the kind that is invasive in the deep south? I don't see purple on the leaves.
Is this the kind that is invasive in the deep south? I don't see purple on the leaves.
Thanks!
No, this is a different plant. O. montana is a climax understory species of coniferous forests in Canada and the northern US (stable in habit and locale) as well as at elevation in the Appalachians as far south as Tennessee, so it is an unlikely candidate to be invasive anywhere. I remember that we were distinguishing between two species by those purple markings on the leaves. I think we were looking at the native Oxalis violacea (with the purple markings on the leaves) and the similar alien Oxalis purprurea (without the markings).
Mike
Jun 26, 2015 23:29:12 #
FrodoBaggins wrote:
Looks quite hidden... Nice peeking in shot!
I wonder how many times I have walked right by it and not noticed it over the years? The blossom is a less than an inch in diameter, and the plant stands about an inch or less from the ground, down underneath the ferns and other plants and a massive fir canopy. It is tolerant of full shade. Also, it looked like only about 1 in 50 plants were blooming. Easy to miss. In fact, I did miss this one. I was shooting another plant about a foot away and didn't see it when my wife said hey, what is that little flower?
Mike
Jun 26, 2015 23:33:07 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
Thanks! br br No, this is a different plant. i O... (show quote)
Thanks for the new info and the reminder info. If I can get just a little to sink in at a time . . .
Jun 26, 2015 23:35:09 #
STVest wrote:
Thanks for the new info and the reminder info. If I can get just a little to sink in at a time . . .
For me, the problem is that it is starting to leak out faster than it is sinking in!
:lol:
Jun 26, 2015 23:37:08 #
Blenheim Orange wrote:
I wonder how many times I have walked right by it ... (show quote)
Wow... Cool! Thank your wife for me!
Jun 26, 2015 23:57:07 #
FrodoBaggins wrote:
Will do. Kathie is more of a birder. The joke is that when we are hiking I am always banging my head and she is always tripping over roots. She is looking up, I am looking down.Wow... Cool! Thank your wife for me!
There is something about relaxed attention as opposed to focused attention. You can see things more easily sometimes when you aren't looking for them. I am not trying to find birds, but I often spot something unusual before she does.
Mike
Jun 27, 2015 00:35:48 #
Completely different from any I've seen here. How delicate and lovely it is! Why is this one becoming rare? Loss of habitat?
Blenheim Orange wrote:
We were talking about the different Sorrels here recently. The Northern Wood Sorrel Oxalis montana is getting rare here, but I found some in bloom the other day.
Mike
Mike
Jun 27, 2015 06:32:38 #
A beautiful shot to be sure Mike but just exquisite on the download. Nice job!
-Doc
-Doc
Jun 27, 2015 07:54:07 #
I have little scientific knowledge of flowers, Mike, but I do recognize a great flower photo when I see one. This is such a photo. :-) :thumbup:
Jun 27, 2015 12:18:08 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
Completely different from any I've seen here. How delicate and lovely it is! Why is this one becoming rare? Loss of habitat?
It is adapted to mature climax northern forests. What is left of those is under tremendous pressure, from development and logging more so than ever, but there is a new threat now from the motor sport craze - ATVs and dirt bikes. The things are being aggressively promoted and sold for the express purpose of tearing up ("exploring") the most remote areas. In many counties here there are now more miles of "ATV trails" than there are miles of public roads, and of course people don't stay on the trails.
Mike
Jun 27, 2015 12:19:36 #
docshark wrote:
A beautiful shot to be sure Mike but just exquisite on the download. Nice job!
-Doc
-Doc
Thanks, Doc.
Mike
Jun 27, 2015 12:45:03 #
DOOK wrote:
I have little scientific knowledge of flowers, Mike, but I do recognize a great flower photo when I see one. This is such a photo. :-) :thumbup:
Much appreciated, Earl. Thanks for the kind words. Scientific knowledge is not needed to appreciate the beauty of nature, that is certain. "A rose by any other name..."
Mike
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