9/18/2023 0 Comments Deep river north carolina sceneryTruly an ancient giant, participants enjoyed taking their picture beside this massive tree by which they looked tiny in comparison. The group made its way back up along the river to the huge Shumard oak, which we measured at over 6 feet in diameter. It has pretty little blue-violet flowers and is very delicate looking with lacy lobed green leaves. It also occurs in Washington DC, Illinois and Missouri. This plant has a very disjunct distribution in the eastern United States, being found in Maryland, and North Carolina where it is listed as S1 endangered (and Bruce said was only found in about 6 counties in the Piedmont of NC), and then in Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia. Bruce pointed out that the river bottom had such a diversity of plant life because of the rich sediment deposited here by the river over thousands of years.īruce found a rare plant in bloom, Colville’s phacelia, also known as buttercup scorpionweed. We made our way out to where we could see the Deep River. There were some really large trees along the river bottom, including species like hackberry, sugarberry, black walnut, swamp chestnut oak (also known as basket oak), bitternut hickory, and more. The larvae emerge from their eggs, and grow into adult salamanders when they develop lungs and lose their external gills and become terrestrial.įurther down in the floodplain, we began to spot a wide variety of wildflowers in bloom, including a lot of painted buckeyes, trout lilies, Carolina spring beauties, purple violets, yellow violets, jack-in-the-pulpits, and more. Most likely they were spotted salamander eggs, encased in a gelatinous goo. There were some ephemeral pools along the way with salamander egg masses, and we stopped to take a look at those. The hike began at 9am with a group of about 20 participants and we started our walk down to the river bottom. Bruce Sorrie, an expert botanist, joined us for this trip. This property has a lot of really old and large trees down near the Deep River, including two trees that are state champions, a Shumard oak and a Florida maple. This property is located near the House and the Horseshoe, north of Carthage. On Saturday, March 26 th, Three Rivers Land Trust (TRLT) in partnership with the Sandhills Natural History Society, led a nature walk on a TRLT owned property along the Deep River in Moore County. Article by Crystal Cockman, TRLT Associate Director
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