IN SITU PHOTOGRAPHY RELATING TO

Alexander County, North Carolina: Rocky Face Mountain (Hypericum radfordiorum type locality)

June 21, 2006
Rocky Face Mountain	View to north from Rocky Face Mountain to other Hypericum radfordiorum sites in the Brushy Mountains proper: Little Mountain (center) and beyond it, Pores Knob (in Wilkes County)
Hypericum radfordiorum in early flower, with Allium cuthbertii Small in foreground, a frequently associated species	Allium cuthbertii inflorescence; only Brushy Mountain populations have tepals this deeply pigmented	Hypericum radfordiorum flower, with numerous stamens (as seen early in the morning, before the petals have begun to wrinkle)

June 21, 2006

Rocky Face Mountain

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View to north from Rocky Face Mountain to other Hypericum radfordiorum sites in the Brushy Mountains proper: Little Mountain (center) and beyond it, Pores Knob (in Wilkes County)

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Hypericum radfordiorum in early flower, with Allium cuthbertii Small in foreground, a frequently associated species

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Allium cuthbertii inflorescence; only Brushy Mountain populations have tepals this deeply pigmented

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Hypericum radfordiorum flower, with numerous stamens (as seen early in the morning, before the petals have begun to wrinkle)

July 18, 2006

Precociously flowering plant of exogenous Helianthus porteri. Inadvertently introduced here from a Georgia source by a careless ecologist. He made reciprocal transplants of Diamorpha smallii Britton using outcrop soil samples without regard for the other organisms contained therein. Most of the herbaceous biomass conspicuous in the background is this introduced species. Obviously there have been impacts to the indigenous species.

July 18, 2006

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Precociously flowering plant of exogenous Helianthus porteri. Inadvertently introduced here from a Georgia source by a careless ecologist. He made reciprocal transplants of Diamorpha smallii Britton using outcrop soil samples without regard for the other organisms contained therein. Most of the herbaceous biomass conspicuous in the background is this introduced species. Obviously there have been impacts to the indigenous species.

July 24, 2006
Group of Hypericum radfordiorum plants	Habit
Habit	Subnaked primary inflorescence, and numerous supernumerary flowering-branches	Flowers, with numerous stamens and with asymmetrical petals whose edges have begun to wrinkle, simulating denticulate margins in the usual sense

July 24, 2006

Group of Hypericum radfordiorum plants

Habit

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Habit

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Subnaked primary inflorescence, and numerous supernumerary flowering-branches

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Flowers, with numerous stamens and with asymmetrical petals whose edges have begun to wrinkle, simulating denticulate margins in the usual sense