When the winter gives way to a new spring, and the water from the higher elevations finds its way down the rocky slopes, a new lease of life extends to those plants that have waited patiently for the new season. |
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Ferns, along with other plants that occupy the rock face, find those little cracks and crevices that appear too small to sustain any form of plant life. |
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Tinker's Penny, Hypericum anagalloides a native of North America. Shown here in early spring enjoying the water while waiting for the appearance of the small golden yellow flowers that it bares a little later in the season. |
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On the sides of rocks, and in the splash of waterfalls, new growth appears on many of our most miss understood plants. These of course are the mosses, the liverworts and ferns, and those flowers that demand water. White Feather Moss, Brachythecium albicans, shown here, is one that readily accepts this type of habitat. |
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These mosses vary greatly in these wet conditions, from those that creep over the rock face to those that grow in the bogs that the water creates. One of those that hugs the rocks is Homalothecium Pinnatifidum shown here in the dampness that gives it life. |
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This is Philonotis fontana and this image shows the male flowers. It is another of the many mosses that can tolerate a little water around it. |
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