#epigaea repens

[geopsych]

I had to really zoom with the camera to get these pictures of trailing arbutus on a high bank. Sadly they were too far away for their scent to reach me and there weren't many, but I'm happy to see them blooming again!

[vandaliatraveler]

You descend into the canyon on an old logging road long ago forgotten by the rest of the world, into rich, damp woods that suddenly grow quiet and still, except for an occasional junco flitting through the dripping underbrush. You stop to get your bearings. A tree near you has been shredded into a million soft, wet splinters by a bear. Closer, a racoon has left its delicate prints in the sediment at the edge of a pooling stream, where it came searching for crayfish last night. You stoop under a branch and step to your left onto a moss-covered rock. You catch your balance. The stream falls away below your feet in a cascade of foamy whitewater, churning through boulders and rhododendron thickets to its final destination. You recognize something familiar in a place that you have never been to before - the ancient, connective energy that resonates through all wild places. You are home. 

[cedar-glade]

Epigaea repens

trailing arbutus

[uswildflowers]

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[geopsych]

Trailing arbutus in bloom. It smells so sweet!

[cedar-glade]

Trailing arbutus heath,

Epigaea repens

Probably one of the more inconspicuous members of the heath family, these Appalachian wildflowers are widely associated with lithophytic assemblages. They bloom as early as late February depending on micro climate, however, are more associated with May bloom times. These small evergreen wildflowers are easy to miss as the flower umbels are usually hidden by both leaf litter and their own winter tattered foliage. 

These photographs were taken at Grey’s Arch Pass, Red River Gorge, KY Mid way up the local cliff face. March 15, 2018

[thebotanicalarcade]

Title: Contributions to the flora of Beaver County, from the Mansfield Herbarium, 1865-1903 Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Mansfield, Ira Franklin, 1942- Subjects: Mansfield, Ira Franklin, 1942-; Plants -- Pennsylvania Beaver County Publisher: Beaver Falls, Penna. , Tribune Printing Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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[thebotanicalarcade]

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