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0 1 Spotting

Spotting

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Cluster of very small (< 3 mm) spiders that recently hatched.

0 0 Hairystem Spiderwort

Hairystem Spiderwort

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

A low-growing, compact spiderwort with deep-purple, three-parted flowers. The ...

0 0 Southern Crabapple

Southern Crabapple

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

palatable when raw, but can be used to make jellies, jams and food

0 0 Southern Nodding Trillium

Southern Nodding Trillium

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Southern Nodding Trillium is a spring flowering perennial plant. It hangs its ...

1 0 Lanceleaf Trillium

Lanceleaf Trillium

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Lanceleaf Trillium is a small trillium with a sessile maroon blossom.

3 0 Golden Net-wing Beetle

Golden Net-wing Beetle

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Beelte with red to orangish red wings. Black venter, black spot on pronotal ...

0 0 Spotting

Spotting

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Fern with leaves containing serrated edges. Fern was about 15 inches in ...

6 2 Bearded Tooth Fungus

Bearded Tooth Fungus

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Fleshy, off-white fungus about the size of a softball growing on the side of a ...

6 1 Shooting Star

Shooting Star

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

From each basal rosette of lance-shaped leaves come 1-4 sturdy, leafless, ...

1 0 Lanceleaf Trillium

Lanceleaf Trillium

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

It is a small trillium with a sessile maroon blossom. T. lancifolium leaves ...

3 2 Velvet Mite

Velvet Mite

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Bright red, velvety arthropod with eight legs. About 0.2 - 0.6 inches in ...

1 0 Northern Cloudywing Butterfly

Northern Cloudywing Butterfly

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Upperside is dark brown; clear spots on forewing are small, triangular, and not ...

1 0 Carolina Silverbell

Carolina Silverbell

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Carolina Silverbell is a species in the family Styracaceae. It is a small ...

0 0 Spotting

Spotting

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Orange-tan fungus with a slightly concave top (~5" in diameter) with a very ...

2 3 Dimpled Trout Lily

Dimpled Trout Lily

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Perennial plant with slender stems that carry pendent flowers with recurved ...

3 0 Pale Yellow Trillium

Pale Yellow Trillium

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

This spring-flowering perennial plant has pale yellow petals which stand ...

0 0 Common Spicebush

Common Spicebush

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Spicebush is a medium-sized deciduous shrub growing to 5 m tall. The leaves ...

0 0 Yellow Fumewort

Yellow Fumewort

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

A native herbaceous perennial with a small (.5"/1.3cm or so) bright yellow ...

0 0 Brown Winter Grasshopper

Brown Winter Grasshopper

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Robust, yellowish-brown grasshopper - often with broad golden stripe running ...

0 0 Gall of Cynipid Wasp

Gall of Cynipid Wasp

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

This is a gall formed by a wasp in the Genus Amphibolips in the family ...

1 0 Mourning Cloak Butterfly

Mourning Cloak Butterfly

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

This is a mating pair of mourning cloak butterflies. Adults of this species ...

0 0 Squawroot

Squawroot

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Squawroot is a perennial, non-photosynthesizing (or "achlorophyllous") ...

1 0 Jack-in-the-pulpit

Jack-in-the-pulpit

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing from a corm. It is a highly variable ...

1 0 American Bird Grasshopper

American Bird Grasshopper

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Schistocerca americana is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae. he ...

0 0 Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Flashing its trademark yellow rump patch as it flies away, calling check for ...

0 0 Common Wood Violet

Common Wood Violet

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Common Wood Violet is a stemless herbaceous perennial plant that is native to ...

1 0 Red Admiral Butterfly

Red Admiral Butterfly

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Butterfly where upperside is black with white spots near the apex; forewing ...

0 0 Ebony Spleenwort Fern

Ebony Spleenwort Fern

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

This fern takes its common name from its dark, reddish-brown, glossy stipe and ...

0 0 Miccosukee Gooseberry

Miccosukee Gooseberry

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

The Miccosukee Gooseberry is a spiny- stemmed deciduous shrub growing to 3 ...

3 2 Fire Pink Wildflower

Fire Pink Wildflower

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Wildflower with a bright scarlet to crimson color. The flowers are 1 to 1.5 ...

0 0 Indian Pink

Indian Pink

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Indian Pink is an uncommon native wildflower. It is a clump-forming herbaceous ...

0 0 Yellow Woodsorrel

Yellow Woodsorrel

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Yellow flowers (five petals each). Leaves are heart-shaped in groups of three. ...

1 1 Round-lobed Liverleaf

Round-lobed Liverleaf

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Hepatica americana is an early spring native wildflower. Small pink, lavender, ...

1 0 Ashy Clubtail Dragonfly

Ashy Clubtail Dragonfly

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

This dragonfly is an early spring species. It is darker than many of our other ...

2 0 Wild Comfrey

Wild Comfrey

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Wild Comfrey is is an erect, unbranched perennial with rough fine hair on its ...

4 0 Dutchman's Breeches

Dutchman's Breeches

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

(Dutchman's breeches) is a perennial herbaceous plant, native to rich woods of ...

0 0 Stream Cruiser Dragonfly

Stream Cruiser Dragonfly

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Male Stream Cruisers have a brown thorax with pale hairs, and a single yellow ...

0 0 Cutleaf Toothwort

Cutleaf Toothwort

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Toothwort is a spring ephemeral, a plant that grows, flowers, and fruits in the ...

0 0 Miccosukee Gooseberry

Miccosukee Gooseberry

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Low, spiny shrub to 3.5 feet tall, forming small thickets. Stems with shredding ...

0 0 False Rue Anenome

False Rue Anenome

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

This spring wildflower is in the buttercup family. The white flowers occur ...

1 0 Mock Oyster Mushroom

Mock Oyster Mushroom

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Phyllotopsis nidulans is orange from head to toe, and densely hairy on the cap ...

1 1 Round-lobed Hepatica

Round-lobed Hepatica

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Hepatica americana is a perennial growing to 0.3 m (1ft) by 0.2 m (0ft 8in). ...

1 0 Resurrection Fern

Resurrection Fern

by KenCheeksAugusta, Georgia, USA

Pleopeltis polypodioides is a species of creeping, coarse-textured fern. The ...

0 0 Bloodwort or Bloodroot

Bloodwort or Bloodroot

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

Bloodwort is a perennial, herbaceous flowering plant. It is a variable species ...

0 0 Solomon's Seal

Solomon's Seal

by KenCheeksSouth Carolina, USA

This native perennial plant is about 2-3' tall and unbranched. The central stem ...

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