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| Red Admiral |
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| Tennessee Collared Ant |
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| Two Western Honey Bees and a Crow's Toes flower |
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| Dutchman's Breechers |
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| Dutchman's Breechers have so many eye-catching morphological features |
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| Bloodroot |
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| Bloodroot, what a delightfully mysterious name for a plant! |
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| White Fawnlily |
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| Virginia Springbeauty |
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| Pinker virginia springbeauty |
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| Common Blue Violet |
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| Early Buttercup |
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| Flower buds |
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| Eastern White Pine |
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| Cool Branches |
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| Two trees right next to each other |
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| They grew into each other and a woodpecker drilled a hole in the seam! 🤣 |
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| Flowers and a tree |
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| Insane brambles of Honey Locust thorns |
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| Logs in the woods |
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| Heavily brown rotted wood. Leaving dead wood in woodlands like this is essential, as the shaded ground under the log and lush, rooting interior provides habitat for countless species. It also ensures the nutrients the tree got from the ground is transformed back into soil. |
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| The reddish brown color of the wood is from a wood-decaying tactic for mushrooms called brown rot |
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| Riverside cliff landscape |
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| River and the woods landscape |
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| it's amazing how the flatness of Illinois has some random cliffs like this. And it's even like 30 feet tall! |
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