Striped Prince's Pine
Learned about this small forest floor plant on a guided walk at the NC Arboretum and then while walking around in a small piece of wooded land next door, i found this plant growing among the leaves.
When they start growing, they look like this:
and then they begin to grow tall, looking like those below:
and close up they become pretty cute and complex.
Where they are growing, a small wooded area about a hundred yards from my house, will be bulldozed by a contractor who is building homes on the land. He's fine with any plants there being removed so i've dug a few up and potted them with the idea of putting them around the house.
Up close, they look like this:
and this:
This photograph show all three stages of the bloom: the bulb before opening on the right, the open bulb on the left and the seed pod beginning to form on the top which is what the green pod-looking ball will turn into.
The seed pod looks like this:
If you live anywhere west of Mississippi, they grow in the spring along forest floors among the leaves.
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