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North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC

This garden contains a collection of North Carolina native plants.  To find it, use this map.

Jack-in-the-Pulpit fruit, 9/2/04 Jack-in-the-Pulpit, with green seedheads, NC Botanical Garden, 7/17/09.  Two plants are seen here. Gray Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis), with weevils,  7/17/09 Ironweed flower (Vernonia novaboracensis)closeup, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 9/6/09 Great Blue Lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 9/6/09

 
 
Maybe Phacelia bipinnatafida, in the mountain garden section of the NC Botanical Garden, 5/9/10. Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana),  9/6/09 Bristly Mallow (Modiola caroliniana), in a wild section off the parking lot,  5/9/10 Whitetop Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia leucophylla),  NC, 9/6/09 Sensitive Brier or Sensitive Plant (Mimosa microphylla), 7/17/09 Meadow Beauty (Rhexia genus), 9/6/09  

11/17/10

       
Carolina Anole, apparently molting        


10/10/10

 
Female Cloudless Sulphur Fiery Skipper Sweat bee, shiny green in reflective light but only black in this shady place Flower fly (Syrphus genus)  

11/21/07

Yucca Plant Bug (Halticotoma valida), on agave plant at NC Botanical Garden, 11/21/07

5/24/07

Tadpole with hind legs, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 5/24/07 Tadpole with hind legs, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 5/24/07 Ichneumonid wasp, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 5/24/07 Jumping spider, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 5/24/07.  This spider was maybe 13 mm long and definitely in a hurry. Orchard Spider, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 5/24/07

 

Male Ornate Snipe Fly (Chrysopilus ornatus), North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 5/24/07

11/2/06

Flower Fly, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 11/2/06 Flower Fly, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 11/2/06

10/20/06

Flower fly (Eristalis dimidiatus), NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 10/20/06 Flower fly (Helophilus chrysostomus), NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 10/20/06 Checkered Skipper, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 10/20/06 Green Anole, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 10/20/06 Bumblebee on Whitetop Pitcher Plant, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 10/20/06

8/28/06

NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/28/06 NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/28/06 Wheel Bug, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/28/06 Eremnophila aureonotata, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/28/06 Sawfly, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/28/06

 

Tachinid Fly, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/28/06

5/24/06

Polyphemus Moth, on woodland trail.  See more moths. Tadpole.  See more frogs. Aphids.  See more aphids. Green Frog.  Broad-headed Bug.  See more True Bugs.

8/11/04

Large Milkweed Bug nymphs, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/11/04

4/24/06

Gemmed Satyr, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 4/22/04.

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