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August 19: In the woods
Kristen Lindquist
I was up on Ragged Mountain today helping with some boundary work on a property Coastal Mountains Land Trust hopes to conserve. Indian Pipe (or Ghost Plant), a parasitic flower often associated with beech trees and now in bloom, was scattered throughout the forest understory.
Mountain understory--
dropped acorns and ghost plants
haunt last year's beech leaves.
dropped acorns and ghost plants
haunt last year's beech leaves.