Wildflower Walk

Buffalo Mountain
Location: _________________________________
July 16, 2011
Date:_____________________________________

Butch Kelly
Trip Leader:________________________________
Gray, rain, fog
Weather:__________________________________

3180 feet - 3483 feet

Elevation:_________________________________

25
No. in Attendance: __________________________

Blooming

Blooming

x
x
x
x

Plants Observed

Plants Observed
Wineberry (in Fruit)
26._____________________________________

Coreopsis
1.______________________________________
Butterflyweed
2.______________________________________
Staghorn Sumac
3.______________________________________
Clematis
4.______________________________________

Basswood
27._____________________________________
Hay scented Fern
28._____________________________________
x

Four-Leaf Milkweed
29._____________________________________

Milkweed
5.______________________________________
Queen Annes Lace
6.______________________________________

Wild yam
30._____________________________________
Rounded Hepatica
32._____________________________________

Sptted Knapweed
7.______________________________________
Turk Caps Lily
8.______________________________________

Rosebay Rhododendron
9.______________________________________

Hop Hornbeam
34._____________________________________

Culvers Root
10._____________________________________

Squaw Root
35._____________________________________

Evening Primrose
11._____________________________________

Arrowleaf Violet
36._____________________________________

Joe Pye Weed

12._____________________________________
Jerusalem Artichoke
13._____________________________________

St. Johns Wort

37._____________________________________
Post Oak
39._____________________________________

Ironweed
14._____________________________________
Canada Lily
15._____________________________________

Bee Balm
16._____________________________________

Bottlebrush grass
41._____________________________________

Dock
17._____________________________________

Whorled Loosestrife
42._____________________________________

Smartweed
18._____________________________________
Maiden Fern
19._____________________________________

Spurge
43._____________________________________
Meadow Rue
44._____________________________________

Agrimony
20._____________________________________

Cinquefoil
45._____________________________________

Snake root
21._____________________________________

Wild Geranium
46._____________________________________

Lopseed
22._____________________________________

Twisted stalk
47._____________________________________

Pipestem
23._____________________________________

Mountain Mint
48._____________________________________

Wild Ginger
24._____________________________________

Old Mans Beard Lichen moss

49._____________________________________

Sweet Cicely
25._____________________________________

Hickory
50._____________________________________

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x
x

x
x

x
x
x

Blood root
31._____________________________________
Jack-in-the-Pulpit
33._____________________________________

Virginia Creeper
38._____________________________________
Striped Maple
40._____________________________________

Wildflower Walk
Driving Directions: _______________________________________________________________________
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Blooming
x

Plants Observed
Fox Glove
51._____________________________________

Campion
52._____________________________________
Hawkweed
53._____________________________________

Madder/Beadstraw/Cleaver
54._____________________________________
Bunch Flower
55._____________________________________

Blooming

Plants Observed

Yarrow
61._____________________________________
Witch Hazel
62._____________________________________
Virginia Pine
63._____________________________________
x

Fleabane
64._____________________________________

Oxeye Daisy
65._____________________________________

Flame Azalea
56._____________________________________
Three-toothed Cinefoil
57._____________________________________

Blueberry (in fruit)

66._____________________________________

Stonecrop/Saxifrage
58._____________________________________
Sandwort
59._____________________________________

Sickle Pode
68._____________________________________

Mountain Ash
60._____________________________________

Mountain Laurel
70._____________________________________

Raspberry
67._____________________________________
Virginia Mountain Mint
69._____________________________________

Notes: Heavy Rain at the parking lot. Despite being july, it was in the 50s with windchill
on the mountain. Not enough people brought jackets. Rain stopped but wind kept knocking raindrops off
leaves for a while. We saw many red efts/red-spooted newts on the trail. At the top, it was very foggy and
our view was greatly limited.
On the way back, we stopped at Tugglers Gap Restuarant and had pie and coffee.

Wildflower Walk
Rakes Mill Pond--Buffal Mtn. trip
Location: _________________________________
July 16, 2011
Date:_____________________________________

Butch Kelly
Trip Leader:________________________________
Cloudy, warm
Weather:__________________________________

2477 feet
Elevation:_________________________________

18
No. in Attendance: __________________________

Blooming

Blooming

x
x
x
x
x
x
x

Plants Observed
Rhododenron Maximum
1.______________________________________

Plants Observed

Arrowhead
2.______________________________________
Bindweed/morning glory
3.______________________________________

Cup plant
26._____________________________________
Yarrow
27._____________________________________

Wingstem
28._____________________________________

Milkweed
4.______________________________________
Jewelweed
5.______________________________________

Turk Caps Lily

29._____________________________________

Horsenettle
6.______________________________________
Tall Meadow Rue
7.______________________________________

Black-eyed Susans
31._____________________________________

Purple Bergamot
32._____________________________________

Elderberry (green berries)

8.______________________________________
Sensitive Fern
9.______________________________________

Moth Mullen
33._____________________________________

Tall Ragweed
30._____________________________________

34._____________________________________

Spirea
10._____________________________________

35._____________________________________

Chickweed
11._____________________________________

36._____________________________________

Ironweed
12._____________________________________
Poison Hemlock (just starting to bloom)
13._____________________________________

37._____________________________________
39._____________________________________

Spotted Knapweed
14._____________________________________
Culvers Root
15._____________________________________

Oyster Plant -- dandelion-like seed puff

16._____________________________________

41._____________________________________

Fleabane
17._____________________________________

42._____________________________________

Clematis (fruit)
18._____________________________________

43._____________________________________

Coreopsis
19._____________________________________

44._____________________________________

Swamp milkweed
20._____________________________________

45._____________________________________

Sour grass
21._____________________________________

46._____________________________________

Hop Clover
22._____________________________________

Timothy Grass
23._____________________________________

Queen Annes Lace

24._____________________________________
White Clover
25._____________________________________

x
x

38._____________________________________
40._____________________________________

Mile Post 163 on Blue Ridge Parkway