Pond Run / White Rocks, VA/WV

Photos by Ken Clark and Mike Juskelis, 2005/07/02.

Mike adds another flower to his digital collection. His picture follows this one.

Paterson's Curse / Purple Bugloss (Echium plantagineum), growing on the gravel road. This invasive contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids, making it somewhat toxic to animals, and it may cause skin irritation as Mike discoverd. [Mike]

This looks much like the rare Hickory Hairstreak, but is more likely a variation of the common Banded Hairstreak.

A rare find during the day, this Luna Moth was napping on the underside of a leaf.

Waites Run. [Mike]

View of Halfmoon Lookout from the Pond Run Vista. [Mike]

Fly Poison (Amianthium muscaetoxicum) patches are scattered along the ridge.

Wild Indigo (Baptisia tinctoria).

Ganoderma lucidum, a varnish polypore called Ling Chih by the Chinese (aka the mushroom of immortality) and valued for its healing powers. [Mike]

The group took a long break on White Rocks.

Another view of White Rocks.

Racer Camp Hollow / White Rocks pictures from March 2004.

Racer Camp Hollow / White Rocks pictures from April 2003.

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