Flora at Acadia National Park - Bar Harbor, Maine
May 22-25, 2011
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Highbush blueberry (Famous Maine blueberries will appear later in the summer.)
[Small pinkish blossoms grouped at the end of a leafy stem.]

Bluets
[Small, four-petaled ground flower with yellow center and white or lilac petals growing amid the grass.]

Bunchberry
[Looking down at a four-petal white bloom with large yellow stamen. The bloom is framed by five leaves at the next level down to the ground. Another branch of smaller leaves is visible next to the ground, but it does not yet have evidence of a flower.]

Red banded polypore (tree fungus)
[What looks like a large clam shell stuck to the trunk of a tree about a foot off the ground. Inside is white and outside is shades of red and purple.]

New leaves of spring
[A grouping of very tiny, green-with-a-hint-of-purple tree leaves.]

These new leaves budding almost look like holiday tree lights.
[Tree limbs with only the tiniest of almost-white leaves starting to sprout all over.]

Tree blooms
[Long, skinny, purple thistles growing from a tree limb.]

Beautiful ground moss
[Nearly white moss blanketing the ground mixed with light green moss.]

Nature's green carpet covering the paved walkway. (Nice and spongy to walk on!)
[Moss covering the walkway.]

Moss in a tree
[The light green thread-like growth is bunched together on the end of a small branch. It resembles a bunch of knotted thread or hair that needs combing.]

Purple pinecones
[Small, purple pinecones hanging at the end of evergreen tree branches.]

Magenta pinecones
[Small pinkish red pinecones standing upright on branches of an evergreen.]

Older pinecones
[Small brown pinecones hanging downward on the same tree as the magenta colored cones.]

Another type of pinecone
[A group of three cones attached directly to a main branch of an evergreen with very long needles.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver