walkernaturecenter's Identifications
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Red-banded Hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops)Observer
cink85Description
on Clethra alnifolia
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Eastern Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta ssp. picta)Observer
edhassDescription
Eastern Painted Turtle
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Black-throated Blue Warbler (Setophaga caerulescens)Observer
edhassDescription
Male Black-throated Blue Warbler
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Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris)Observer
johnepplerDescription
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (f) (Archilochus colubris)in the Walker Nature Center, Reston, Virginia.
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Sessile-flowered Trilliums (Subgenus Sessilia)Observer
l1234527289Description
adjacent to a creek, in damp floodplain type of habitat.
I'm going back out to measure leaves and to smell the flower. I will update shortly.
Per references: Trillium cuneatum has a pleasant faint spicy or banana scent. Trillium sessile's odor has been described as rotten meat.
T. sessile is the smaller of the two with leaves only to about 7.5cm (3") long.
T. cuneatum has leaves wedge-shaped at the base and broad to 15cm (6") long and petals to 7.5cm (3") long.
Where the anther splits and the pollen is released is totally different on the two species--In T.cuneatum the anther dehiscense is latrorse in the T. sessile it is introrse (http://getyourbotanyon.blogspot.com/2010/11/trillium-cuneatum.html).
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Sessile-flowered Trilliums (Subgenus Sessilia)Observer
l1234527289Description
adjacent to a creek, in damp floodplain type of habitat.
I'm going back out to measure leaves and to smell the flower. I will update shortly.
Per references: Trillium cuneatum has a pleasant faint spicy or banana scent. Trillium sessile's odor has been described as rotten meat.
T. sessile is the smaller of the two with leaves only to about 7.5cm (3") long.
T. cuneatum has leaves wedge-shaped at the base and broad to 15cm (6") long and petals to 7.5cm (3") long.
Where the anther splits and the pollen is released is totally different on the two species--In T.cuneatum the anther dehiscense is latrorse in the T. sessile it is introrse (http://getyourbotanyon.blogspot.com/2010/11/trillium-cuneatum.html).
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Toothy Skinks (Genus Plestiodon)Observer
ecologyeliseDescription
At Garden Plots during Butterfly walk for Reston Bioblitz
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