Well I've finally cleared through and processed the photos from my digital camera from about a month ago (around Mother's Day). These are in southern Middlesex/northern Monmouth counties here off of Raritan Bay, which is a southern extension of New York Bay. The soil is thin humus over sand, very open mixed pine and hardwood forest.

This first beauty was a monster. Growing in full sun out of the trees and right on the bank of the sand road. I often find acaules growing almost within an open path and often with signs of being trammeled by hikers.

The remainder are in another location, more mesic, but on the slope of a hill with absolutely no competing undergrowth.

I saved pollen and now have pods on my Andrewsii and Ulla Silkens which bloomed later. Next time you guys send me pollen in time please!

Bonaventure

Oops where are the pictures i thought I attached? Lemme try again.

If its not her I must be having a brain-fade and will have to review how to post. Can't be that hard, how could I have forgotten?

OK, I didn't copy & paste the URL into my post after I hit host it! I promise these are well woth the wait. (Seems i've been having a conversation with myself)

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How about that, I've even learned how to resize for message boards. Here's some more: : :

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Wow thank you for posting these!
j.

Hey I got one more, lemme try to paste this one again.

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Excellent Pictures!!!:thumbsup:

Ramon:D

Excellent photos and beautiful Cyps! Thanks for sharing!:thumbsup:

very very beautyfull flower:heart::heart:ty.

Well worth the wait! Nice pics!! :thumbsup:

Don't worry I talk to myself all the time around here. :poke:

Nice photos thanks for sharing! I'm so jealous I have no wild cyps to look at in person.

Thanks you for sharing such beauties with us!

Awesome pics...thnx!:cool:

I like the raspberry colored flower in your fourth post. Very nice.

I'm so jealous I have no wild cyps to look at in person.

Teresa, believe it or not there are a few scattered colonies of C. kentuckiense along the Texas/Arkansas line. If you could find someone nice enough to tell you where they are, it would definitely be worth a look! Arkansas itself has some of the largest populations in the entire range of this species where it is found alongside C. parviflorum v. pubescens (although they bloom at different times).

Makes me want to go out & start looking for wild cyps!

Teresa, believe it or not there are a few scattered colonies of C. kentuckiense along the Texas/Arkansas line. If you could find someone nice enough to tell you where they are, it would definitely be worth a look! Arkansas itself has some of the largest populations in the entire range of this species where it is found alongside C. parviflorum v. pubescens (although they bloom at different times).

Hmmmm, that would only be about a 7 HOUR drive for me....I might as well get on a plane and go look in Oregon....or how long is a flight to Japan? I know someone there who could tell me where to find cyps..;)

Those are cool!!

John