Mid-June in the Adirondacks.. What's Blooming?
Roadside Blue Lupines... be still my beating heart!
Bunchberry // Cornus canadensis on our hike up Scarface Mountain.
Must be the most beautiful of all native ground-covers!
Reindeer moss?
These colors tho.
Wood Sorrel.. a tasty treat on our hike.
Very special find - One lovely Pink Ladyslipper on the mountain top // Cypripedium acaule. Needs very specific soil conditions to sustain the symbiotic fungus it requires to germinate and grow (Don Leopold, 'Native Plants of the Northeast').
Carnivorous Round-leaved Sundew // Drocera rotundifolia. Fun find!! Lower St. Regis waterways.
Northern Blue Flag // Iris versicolor
Northern Blue Flag // Iris versicolor
A carpet of creeping Twinflower // Linnaea borealis. Found in a sunny situation growing on a deep layer of white pine needles above Upper Saranac Lake.
Last but not least.. had to include this gorgeous sunset over Saranac // My happy place <3