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2010 Field Trips

Photo: Bart Jones

Trip leader Todd Crabtree explains about all the microhabitats
that can be found in the cedar glades and the plants that exploit
them. Long Hunter State Park - Davidson Co. - March 20, 2010.

Leavenworthia uniflora is much smaller than the more common
Leavenworthia stylosa. The flowers are white with thin green
veining at the base of the petals. Couchville Glade SNA.

Glade Cress - Leavenworthia stylosa - is truly the star of the very early wildflowers found in the limestone cedar glades of Middle
Tennessee. The flowers are up to an inch across, gigantic in relation to the plant, and often form substantial drifts in good conditions. At
Long Hunter, the three color variants of this species can be found growing together. Lavender seems to be the most common color seen
at this location, followed by white in substantially lower numbers, with an occasional yellow plant sprinkled in the population.

Spring Beauty - Claytonia virginica -
always heralds the beginning of the
spring season.

Sixteen TNPS members and friends joined Joe B. Guinn for a tour of his family's farmland
and the woods lining Cypress Creek near Brownsville - Haywood County - March 27, 2010
where we were treated to a riot of blooming spring ephemerals.

Hundreds of White Trout Lily -
Erythronium albidum - were found in
the flatwoods along Cypress Creek.

A very common violet found in these streamside woodland habitats is Smooth Yellow Violet -
Viola pubescens. Although just beginning to come into bloom, the bright yellow flowers were
very easily found among the other white flowers blooming with them.

TNPS kicked off the field trip season in conjunction with Invasive Plant
Awareness Week with an invasive removal day along the Fiery Gizzard in
South Cumberland State Park on Feb. 27, 2010. Here, a portion of the
group is receiving instructions from the park personnel.

Member Al Good is a mighty "privetjack". Hasta la vista
nasty plants!!!

Photo: Mary Priestley

The group in front of picturesque Deerlick
Falls - Monteagle - April 3, 2010.

This beautiful dark blue Sharp-lobed Hepatica - Hepatica acutiloba - was just one of
the myriad spring wildflowers found in Shakerag Hollow near Sewanee on the April
3rd field trip.

Some of our intrepid hikers taking a little break after viewing
Deerlick Falls.

This sweetly-scented Trailing Arbutus - Epigaea repens - pokes its
lovely flowers through the duff of last seasons leaves.

Photo: Todd Crabtree

Our April 10 field trip to Short Springs State Natural Area was very
well attended and those present were treated to a marvelous
display of wildflowers. One of the rare plants we encountered was
Conjurer's Nut - Nestronia umbellula - which was still in bud. This
was the first population found in Tennessee, discovered
coincidentally by our trip leader Dennis Horn.

The beautiful Southern Red Trillium - Trillium sulcatum - was in full
glory at Short Springs. There were numerous plants in bloom,
including a rare cream-colored flower.

Normally Spiderworts - Tradescantia subaspera - have blue
flowers, but there were several bright pink-flowered plants on the
bluffs overlooking one of Short Spring's creeks.

Trip leader Dennis Horn not only told us of Short Springs botanical
treasures, but also passed along stories of its importance to the
history of Tullahoma and Coffee County.

Photo: Bart Jones

Photo: Julianna Gregory

This year's inventory was held once again on the Cumberland Trail near
Caryville along the New River. The group of participants pose for a photo along
the trail - May 1, 2010 - Campbell County.

Always a crowd-pleaser, Pink Lady's
Slipper - Cypripedium acaule - made a nice
show on the Cumberland Trail.

Part of the group on the boardwalk at Reelfoot Lake - Aug. 7, 2010. At left, one of the
many beautiful aquatic plants found at Reelfoot Lake, Pickerelweed - Pontederia
cordata - is one of the most attractive and a great nectar plant for bees and butterflies.

Swamp Loosestrife - Decodon verticillatus - is a stemmy shrub found along much of
the shoreline of the lake. At right is the stunning flower of American Lotus - Nelumbo
lutea - found at Kirby Pocket of Reelfoot Lake.

Photo: Bart Jones

Getting ready to board the pontoon boat for
a casual tour of Reelfoot Lake.

Photo: Nita Heilman

On the June 26, 2010 field trip to Couchville Cedar Glade several early summer wildflowers lit up the glade including (from left to right):
Tennessee Coneflower - Echinacea tennesseensis, Gattinger's Prairie Clover - Dalea gattingeri, and Gray-headed Coneflower - Ratibida
pinnatifida.

Photo: Louise Gregory

The Big South Fork trip of Sept. 11, 2010 visited two unique habitats, a cobble bar and a rockhouse, along with the
rare plants that occur there. At the cobble bar clumps of the rare Southern Racemose Goldenrod - Solidago
arenicola (upper left) and at the rockhouse, Rockhouse Aster - Aster saxicastellii (upper right). Below left the group
posed at Hippy Cave while on the right, group leader Larry Pounds demonstrates the differences between the
genera Coreopsis, Rudbeckia, and Helianthus in the field.

Photo: Louise Gregory

Photo: Julianna Gregory

Photo: Todd Crabtree

The 2010 Annual Meeting was held once again at the Linden Valley Conference Center in Perry County on Sept.
17-18. On Saturday, the 17th, we traveled to Dry Branch SNA just over the line in Lewis County to see one of
Tennessee's rarest plants, Tennessee Yellow-eyed Grass - Xyris tennesseensis (upper left). The areas around the
creek were very rich with species such as Tall Coreopsis - Coreopsis tripteris (upper right) and Turtlehead - Chelone
glabra (lower left). Along the dry ridge where we parked we were greeted with a magnificent Slender Ladies'-tresses
- Spiranthes lacera var. gracilis (lower right).

Photo: Bart Jones