Rock Bells (Wild Red Columbine)

Rock Bells, or Wild Red Columbine

Aquilegia canadensis

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These pictures come courtesy of regular contributor, Mike Hall, who said that the Buffalo River Area (Near Compton, AR) was full of these right now. To see more of Mikes work (with lush watefalls) from his recent trip to the area, go to http://picasaweb.google.com/ArkansasTravels/CSNPGathering#

And for more on Rock bells see:

http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/aquilegiacana.html

Umbrella Magnolia

Image by Allison Finn.

I will be adding information later, but his image of a flower I have never seen, comes to us from the Upper Buffalo Wilderness Area near Ponca AR, courtesy of Allison Finn. The interior "cone" of the Umbrella Magnolia appears to have common characteristics with the very present Southern Magnolia, but a much thinner and more symmetrical petal outcrop.