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Contrast of bog edge and ditch bank

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Title:
Contrast of bog edge and ditch bank
Description:
Contrast of bog edge and ditch bank. The redroot zone is along the ditch edge. Arundinaria on white strip; From Natural Gardens (page 307): "Coarse perennial, 1-3 1/2 ft. tall, with very hairy dull yellow flowers in a flat-topped cluster; perianth persists on fruit: leaves iris-like: juice of plant, especially of underground stem, bright red. Swamp borders and grassy bogs, eastern. Spring to fall." Published in: A Southern Upland Grass-Sedge Bog
Topics:
Botany
Subjects:
Bogs
Ditches
Orange grass (Campulosus aromaticus)
Roads
Original Format:
Black and white lantern slide
Extent:
3.25 x 4 in.
Item identifier:
0021042
Photographer:
Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 more info on Wells, B. W. (Bertram Whittier), 1884-1978 
Created Date:
circa to
Genre:
Landscape photographs
Location:
Big Savannah (N.C.)
Digital Project:
B. W. Wells