Autumn time in DuPont State Forest

Pumpkin time...

Beautiful berries...

American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) - North American native shrub with beautiful purple berry-like fruits which ripen in September through October.

White Beautyberry 'Albifuctus' - white berries instead of typical purple. This shrub has berries about twice the size of the purple ones.

"The raw berries, while palatably sweet, are suitable for human consumption only in small amounts, because they are astringent; they are also used in jellies. The roots are used to make herbal tea. As a folk remedy it has been claimed that "fresh, crushed leaves of American beautyberry, Callicarpa americana . . . helped keep biting insects away from animals such as horses and mules."A chemical compound isolated from the plant,  callicarpenal, was effective as a mosquito repellent in a laboratory experiment using a simulated skin model." (from Wikipedia). 

In white and purple colors - autumn flowers

Lady's Tresses orchids

 

Grass of parnassus

Sundews

Bottle Gentian / Closed Gentian / Closed Bottle Gentian

Stiff Gentian