Common Cinquefoil – Native Plant of the Day 01/21/2024
Photo from 5/17/2013 Location: Walker County, Ga.
More photos /info at the Potentilla simplex detail page.
Common Cinquefoil – Potentilla simplex
Shrubby Cinquefoil, a native plant, has been added to the USWildflowers database (02/13/2019.) Scientific name is Dasiphora fruticosa. Photo below was taken in Rocky Mountain National Park, Larimer County, CO on Aug 26, 2016. Go to the Shrubby Cinquefoil detail page for more information and photos.
Shrubby Cinquefoil – Dasiphora fruticosa
Dwarf Cinquefoil – Native Plant of the Day 04/11/2018
Photo from 4/9/2011. Location: Walker County, GA.
More photos and info at the Potentilla canadensis detail page.
Dwarf Cinquefoil – Potentilla canadensis
Common Cinquefoil, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers database (05/31/2013.) Scientific name is Potentilla simplex. Photo below was taken in Walker County, GA on May 17, 2013. Go to the Common Cinquefoil detail page for more photos and information.
Common Cinquefoil – Potentilla simplex
USWildflowers Daily Plant 12/25/2012
Photo from 5/23/2008. Location: Walker County, GA
Sulfur Cinquefoil, an introduced species. For more photos and information go to the Potentilla recta detail page.
Sulfur Cinquefoil, Roughfruit Cinquefoil – Potentilla recta
Purple Phacelia, Fernleaf Phacelia – Phacelia bipinnatifida
I wasn’t planning on going down to The Pocket this weekend, but my wife had other plans for Sunday, so she suggested that I do something to take advantage of the beautiful day, so I headed down there shortly after getting home from church. In addition to walking the boardwalk and the trail up to the falls, I did a little back country walking above the bluff north of the horse trail. Wildflowers are abundant; here is my report, and a couple of photos taken off the beaten path in The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain.
The Phacelia are blooming. There is a Phacelia in the field to the right as you walk down to the boardwalk; they are blooming along the boardwalk and all the way up to the falls. The photo above was taken up on the top of the north bluff.
For those who were hoping for, as Ed Sullivan would have put it, “A Really Big Shew,” the time has passed in 2009. However, that is relative to The Pocket, and the abundance of wildflowers still exceed what you’ll find in many areas. While the dominant flower along the Shirley Miller Wildflower Trail seems to be Sweet Cicely right now, a species that isn’t exactly ‘showy,’ several of the “signature species” could still be found on Saturday, 4/25.
Cindy and I headed down to The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain around 4:30 Friday afternoon. I knew the light would be failing on the Shirley Miller Wildflower Trail soon after we arrived, but I was committed for Saturday, and wanted to make sure I was able to make a weekly report on the wildflower status during the spring season. If you’re into watching the seed-formation process, this is a good time for you. There is still an abundance of wildflowers in The Pocket, making a trip absolutely worthwhile, but of the “signature flowers,” Virginia bluebell and wood poppy are past blooming or almost so, and the bent trillium is abundant but in decline. The dominant species in the boardwalk area is probably the wild hyacinth, with the wild geranium still providing a pink splash around much of the trail.