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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 live map.
8/29/19
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| American Bullfrog | Same American Bullfrog | Green Frog | Juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
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| Redbelly Water Snake | Same Redbelly Water Snake | Robber fly (Promachus genus) | Spicebush Swallowtail |
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| Thread-waisted wasp | Tiny weevil on aster petal |
7/25/19
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| Horace's Duskywing | Female Fiery Skipper | Male Fiery Skipper | Another male Fiery Skipper | Glassy-winged Sharpshooter, one of several on a tall Lion's Ear plant (Leonotis leonurus), a native to Africa in the mint family. |
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| Glassy-winged Sharpshooter | Glassy-winged Sharpshooter | Glassy-winged Sharpshooter | Long-jawed orb weaver | Orange Milkwort (part of cultivated exhibit) |
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| Pearl Crescent | Potter wasp | Snowberry Clearwing Moth | Same Snowberry Clearwing Moth | Same Snowberry Clearwing Moth |
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| Spider exuvia, probably from a long-jawed orb weaver | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Black-form female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Black-form female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Variegated Fritillary |
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| Wasps on Rattlesnake Master | Common Water Striders | Mystery plant |
2/2/19
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| Carolina Chickadee | Another Carolina Chickadee | Dark-eyed Junco | Female Downy Woodpecker | Same female Downy Woodpecker |
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| Same female Downy Woodpecker | Same female Downy Woodpecker | Male Downy Woodpecker | Female Downy Woodpecker | Mourning Dove |
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| Pine Warbler | Song Sparrow | Tufted Titmouse | Another Tufted Titmouse | White-breasted Nuthatch |
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Blue Jay | Female Northern Cardinal | Male Northern Cardinal |
8/16/18
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| Sleepy Orange visiting a Salt Marsh Mallow | Scolia nobilitata wasp visiting a Green Coneflower | Small Milkweed Bug | Tadpole |
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| Another tadpole | Trailing Wild Bean (Strophostyles helvola) | Wasps mating | Amphibian eggs |
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| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Jack-in-the-Pulpit seedhead |
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| Another Jack-in-the-Pulpit seedhead | A third Jack-in-the-Pulpit seedhead |
6/13/18
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| Bullfrog (Rana catesbiana) | Hearts-a-Bustin' (Euonymus americanus) | Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) | Little Wood Satyr | Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) |
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| Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) | Red-spotted Purple | Sensitive Briar (Mimosa microphylla) | Smooth Coneflower (Echinacea laevigata) | Snowberry Clearwing Moth |
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| Snowberry Clearwing Moth | Stokes' Aster (Stokesia laevis) | Tall Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) | Thread-waisted Wasp (Ammophila sabulosa) | Tuberous Grasspink (Calopogon tuberosus) |
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| Close-up of same Tuberous Grasspink | Water strider | Watershield (Brasenia schreberi) | Wheel Bug nymph | Same Wheel Bug nymph |
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| Wild Quinine (Parthenium integrifolium) with bee | Mystery wildflower | Zebra Swallowtail | Barbara' Buttons (Marshallia genus) | Bee on Daisy Fleabane Erigeron annuus)( |
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| Leaf beetle (Bassareus detritus) | Blowfly | Butterfly Pea (Clitoria mariana) | Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) | Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) |
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| Variable Dancer (Violet Dancer subspecies) | Flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus) | Green-and-Gold (Chrysogonum virginianum) |
11/2/17
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| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Same Yellow-rumped Warbler | Carolina Anole | Another Carolina Anole | Same Carolina Anole |
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| Asphodel family flowers | Clouded Skipper | Flower fly | Flower fly | Flower fly |
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| Young American Robin | Clouded Skipper | Wasp | iMow robot |
9/7/17
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| Juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird, at Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) | Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird |
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| Same juvie Ruby-throated Hummingbird, in tree | Jack-in-the-pulpit berries | Orb weaver web | Bee | Clouded Skipper |
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| Crab spider | Flea beetles, with leaf damage | Male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch |
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| Same male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch | Same male American Goldfinch |
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| Same male American Goldfinch | Green Lynx Spider on goldenrod (Solidago genus) | Hummingbird Clearwing Moth |
3/29/17
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| Hummingbird Clearwing Moth | Common Water Strider |
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| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Wildflowers | Large Bee Fly |
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| Blue-eyed Grass | Bowl-and-doily Spider | Same Bowl-and-Doily Spider | Heartleaf Foamflower | Blooming Mayapple |
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| Apple blossoms and buds | Long view of part of apple tree arranged on an espalier |
12/28/16
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| Brown-headed Nuthatch | Same Brown-headed Nuthatch | Male Northern Cardinal | Female Downy Woodpecker | Female Eastern Bluebird |
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| Male Eastern Bluebird | Female Eastern Bluebird | Female Eastern Bluebird | Eastern Towhee | Tufted Titmouse |
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| Tufted Titmouse | Another Tufted Titmouse | White-throated Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow | White-throated Sparrow (tan stripe type) |
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| White-throated Sparrow (tan stripe type) |
10/15/16
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| Cloudless Sulphur |
3/12/16
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| Male Eastern Towhee | Brown Thrasher | Atamasco Lily | Crane Fly Orchid Winter Leaf | Cabbage White (dorsal view) |
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| White-throated Sparrow | Snapping turtle (head) | Mining bee | Mining bee on a Spring Beauty | Leaf |
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| Early Saxifrage | Male Eastern Bluebird | Female Eastern Bluebird | Mining bee (Andrena genus) starting to dig a nest | Mining bee near nest |
10/9/15
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| Common Buckeye | Checkered Skipper | Flower fly | Monarch | Fiery Skipper |
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| Monarch | Monarch | Fiery Skipper | American Lady | Flower fly |
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| Sleepy Orange | Sleepy Orange | Ocola Skipper | Sachem | Cloudless Sulphur |
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| Coastal plain boardwalk | Bigleaf Magnolia |
8/21/15
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| Sand wasp (Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus), pausing from trying to dig a hole in the clay trail. It tried to dig several holes while I watched, but apparently found the clay too hard. | Same sand wasp, standing back from hole | Same sand wasp, digging | Trailing Wild Bean (Strophostyles helvula) |
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Silver-spotted Skipper | Green Anole | Clouded Skipper | Horace's Duskywing | Silver-spotted Skipper |
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| Goldenseal | Monkshood | Water Lily | Cardinal Flower | Main garden |
8/2/15
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail On Joe Pye Weed | Another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail with a hind wing piece missing | Another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Yet another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Pine Lily (Lilium catesbaei) |
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| Molting Northern Cardinal | Same Northern Cardinal | Same Northern Cardinal | Little Glassywing | Meadow beauty |
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| Planthopper (Rhynchomitra microrhina), seen in a dark, secluded corner of the garden | Red-headed Bush Cricket | Silver-spotted Skipper on Heartleaf Pickerelweed | Spicebush Swallowtail | Small Bigleaf Magnolia |
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| Pearl Crescent on Black-eyed Susan | Pearl Crescent on another Black-eyed Susan | Female Great Blue Skimmer |
7/16/15
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| Delta Flower Beetles mating | Green Anole | Ailanthus Webworm Moth | Blue Dasher |
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| Delta Flower Beetle | Gray Hairstreak | Green Frog (partially submerged, in the aquatic plant exhibit) | Tick Trefoil flowers (in the wooded trail outside the gardens) | Micrathena sagittata |
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| Lamb's Ears | Pipevine Swallowtail | Spot-winged Glider (Pantala hymenaea) | Fowler's Toad | Wasp and Ailanthus Webworm Moth on Rattlesnake Master |
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| Tachinid flies | Wasp | Another wasp | Watershield flower | Pipevine Swallowtail | Mullein Foxglove (Dasistoma macrophylla) |
3/11/15
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| Minnow, maybe an inch long | Carolina Wren | Carp, about an inch long | Crane Fly Orchid winter leaves |
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| Leatherleaf | Longleaf Pine after controlled burn | Large tadpole in motion | Large tadpole at rest | Two trees grown together |
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| One blooming Trout Lily | The other blooming Trout Lily | Witchhazel | Common Water Strider | Blue Jay |
1/16/15
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| Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius), North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC | Same Male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC | A view of the entrance, from a 3-photo pano, 3.5 MB. |
10/5/14
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| The gate to the herb garden (3.23 MB, 5-photo stitch) | Flower fly |
9/27/14
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| Red-banded Hairstreak on Common Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) | Flower fly (Copestylum genus) | Flower fly (Eristalis) | Leafhopper | Trailing Wild Bean, one plant near parking lot |
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| Paper wasp on goldenrod | Plant bug (Neurocolpus genus) |
9/8/14
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| Spider wasp? |
8/29/14
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| Ambush bug on aster | Same ambush bug | Ambush bug on Eupatorium perfoliatum | Carpenter Bee on chives | Mating leatherwing beetles |
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| Green Lynx Spider | Crab spider | Monkshood | Powdery Alligator Flag | Southern Sheepkill |
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| Brown Thrasher | A crambid snout moth (Elophila obliteralis), seen on a Powdery Alligator Flag leaf | Weevil (Haplorhynchites aeneus), very tiny and fast-moving |
8/27/14
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| Northern Cardinal | Horace's Duskywing | Tomatoes on the vine | Mating thread-waisted wasps |
8/16/14
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| Crossline Skipper | Horace's Duskywing | Jack-in-the-Pulpit | Robber fly | Water strider | Spurred Butterfly Pea |
8/11/14
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| Male Blue Dasher | Another male Blue Dasher | Bee Killer (Mallophora orsina) | Robber fly (Promachus genus) with bee prey | Same robber fly |
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| Cucumber Beetle | Duskywing | Leafhopper | Argiope aurantia spider and wasp which was caught temporarily in the web, but escaped | Ambush bug |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper | Thread-waisted wasp | Same thread-waisted wasp | Another Silver-spotted Skipper | Snowberry Clearwing Moth |
8/2/15
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| Eastern Tiger Swallowtail On Joe Pye Weed | Another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail with a hind wing piece missing | Another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Yet another Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Wood Lily (Lilium philadelphicum), seen among the pitcher plants, unlabeled |
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| Molting Northern Cardinal | Same Northern Cardinal | Same Northern Cardinal | Little Glassywing | Meadow beauty |
6/18/14
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| Flowers | Mangora genus | Fungus | Earwig |
11/17/10
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| Carolina Anole, apparently molting |
10/10/10
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| Female Cloudless Sulphur | Fiery Skipper | Sweat bee, shiny green in reflective light but only black in this shady place | Flower fly (Syrphus genus) |
7/17/09
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| 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 |
11/21/07
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| Yucca Plant Bug (Halticotoma valida), on agave plant at NC Botanical Garden, 11/21/07 |
5/24/07
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| 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 |
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| Male Ornate Snipe Fly (Chrysopilus ornatus), North Carolina Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 5/24/07 |
11/2/06
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| Tachinid Fly, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/28/06 | |
5/24/06
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| 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
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| Large Milkweed Bug nymphs, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 8/11/04 |
4/24/06
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| Gemmed Satyr, NC Botanical Garden, Orange County, NC, 4/22/04. |
9/2/04
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| Jack-in-the-Pulpit fruit, 9/2/04 |
Map of the North Carolina Botanical Garden and environs.
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