Wildflowers in Davidson River area of the Pisgah National Forest

 In this special time we have now, our hikes in the mountains are very limited.

Currently we have the most beautiful time of the year - the spring with the blooming wildflowers.

Unfortunately, the most of our mountain trails in surrounding forests are closed. We can hike only on a few separated mountain trails. And to our surprise, these few mountain trails are now covered with a huge number of blooming flowers; they bloom much earlier than usual. 

We see also the new flowers that we have not seen before - 

it looks like the nature compensates us for this bad time which we have now...

Wild gingers

Chickweed 

Wood anemone

Foamflower

                                                                   Cutleaf toothwort

               

Virginia pennywort

White Trillium

                                                            One-Flowered Broomrape

Mayapple

Showy orchis

Violet

Dwarf Crested Iris

Solomon's Seal

Maidenhair Fern 

Jack-in-the Pulpit

Squawroot (Bear Corn)

❊ Flower of the day❊

Orobanche uniflora

One-flowered Broomrape, One-flowered Cancer Root, Ghostpipe, 
Naked Broomrape  

The flowers with many strange names, The Flowers That Must Not Be Named

This wildflower is a perennial. Since this is a parasitic plant it develops the feeder roots that attach themselves to the roots of a suitable host plant. It is dependent on the host plant for nutrients. One-Flowered Broomrape is a parasite of such common plants as golden roots, asters, saxifrages and sedums.
One-Flowered Broomrape does not contain chlorophyll, so there are no green leaves.The blooming period occurs from late spring to early summer and lasts about 2-4 weeks.
 It may produce up to 5 flowering stalks which are usually hairy. 
There is a single flower per stalk.

The flowers are cross-pollinated by bumblebees and possibly other long-tongued bees. In the absence of cross-pollination by insects, the flowers are self-fertile.
 This unusual wildflower has a reputation of appearing unexpectedly in one area, only to disappear and reappear in another area of the same habitat.