James, The flowers are a bluet, probably Houstonia serpyllifolia, and the leaves are witch-hobble (Viburnum lantanoides [formerly V. alnifolium]).
Jess On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM, James Parton <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > Over the last month with many of us discussing boreal forests in the > Appalachians, Europe and Canada I felt a little photographic tour of the > highlands of North Carolina would be fitting. I have took these over the > last 5 years at places like Richland Balsam, Devil's Courthouse, Waterrock > Knob, The Mountains-to-Sea trail on the Pisgah Ridge, Craggy Gardens and The > Black Mountains Crest ( Deep Gap ) trail, which is the highest hike east of > the rockies and Flat Laurel Creek, near Sam's Knob. These forests are beyond > words but beautiful is the best I can come up with. I have also downloaded a > picture taken from the Mountains-To-Sea trail overlooking the Blue Ridge > Parkway which I have uploaded to the file page of our ENTStrees Google > website. > > Can anyone tell me what these pretty blue flowers are and the colorful > leaves? > > JP > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
