NATURE AND HISTORICAL OBJECTS IDENTIFICATION



 

The purpose of this part of the site is to help visually identify various nature categories and determine where they are located.  The following states are present: Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey.  Each photo can be expanded to a larger version by clicking on it.  If there is a G after the date, the photo was georeferenced.

 

FLORA

Flowers

 

Only wild flowers are shown, native or non-native.  Flowers are sorted by color except for special categories.  If a flower has multiple colors, it will be put in all the corresponding pages.  If the same species can cave multiple colors (columbine can be red, blue, white, multicolor), the page will show all the colors.  

 

Special Categories

Orchids

Yellow Lady Slipper

Aquatic and Bog Flowers


Golden Club

Prairie Flowers
and Grasses

Indian Grass

Violets


Purple Violet

Asters
 

Goldenrods


(Unidentified)

Flowers by Color

White

Large Flowered Trillium

   

   Yellow    


Goat's Beard

    Orange   

Day Lily

 

       RED      


Cardinal Flower

       Pink      


Milkweed

     Purple    


Purple Trillium

     Violet    


Large Flowered Trillium
(end of bloom)

      Blue     

Virginia Bluebells

 

     Green    

Bunch Flower

     Brown    

Wild Ginger

Tiny, Nonexistent or Unknown Color of Flowers

 

Flora Non-Flowers

Ferns

Cinnamon Fern

Mosses

Ground Pine

Lichens

British Soldiers

Fungi

Lion's Mane

 

 

 

TREES AND SHRUBS

 

The goal is for each tree or shrub to take a picture of the whole tree in the field, its bark, route, leaf and fall leaf, bud, flower, fruit, and buds.

Conifers

The goal is instead of leaves, flowers and fruits, to take a photo of needles and cones.  Pictures of cones should be in a cluster, separate cones closed and opened, the area where the cone is attached to the tree, immature cones, male and female cones.

Pines


Eastern White Pine

Other Conifers

Hemlock

 

 

Broadleaf Trees

Oaks

Maples

Birches

Hickories

Other Broadleaf Trees
 
Flowering Dogwood

     

The Rest

Shrubs

Barberry

Tree Diseases

Witch's Broom

   

 

 

FAUNA

Mammals

White Tailed Deer

Birds

Canada Goose

Turtles

Box Turtle

Snakes

Black Snake

Frogs and Toads

Common Toad

Salamanders

Red Eft

Lizards

Fence Lizard

Crayfishes

Crayfish

Butterflies and Moths

Luna Moth

Other Insects

17 Year Cyclical Cicada

   

 

 

GEOLOGY

Rock Formations

Devil's Eyebrow Anticline,

C&O Canal, ~2mi. W. of Hancock, MD

Waterfalls

Buttermilk Falls,

near Shunk, PA

 

 

 

HISTORICAL OBJECTS

Furnaces

Van Buren Furnace,

Great North Mountain

Cabins and Shelters

Paul Gerhard Memorial Shelter, Great North Mountain

Historic Graves

Pre Park Grave, near Rt. 211

Shenandoah National Park

Lighthouses

Assateague Lighthouse,

Assateague National Seashore

Other Historical Artifacts

Pre Park Steam Engine, Shenandoah National Park

     

 

 

 

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Page Created: 02/05/2010
Last Update: 03/20/2010
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