The first days of summer - flowers, mushrooms on the trail along the Davidson River...

There were many flowers and mushrooms on the trail... was it a farewell to spring, or maybe a welcome to summer?

Skullcaps (scutellaria) are members of the Mint family

Tall Anemone

 Carolina horsenettle

 

Great Rhododendron

 

Hydrangea

 Pipsissewa

Indian pipe

 

Hairy Leafcup / yellow flower Leafcup,

 

Clasping Bellflower

 Spiderworts

 

 

Toothed jelly fungi

 

Snow fungus

 

                                         Amanita virosa

 

                                         Amanita gemmata

Amanita

Hydnellum peckii, known as the bleeding Hydnellum and the bleeding tooth fungus,

 

Coral fungi