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MAINE SCENICS

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  • Blinn Hill in autumn, Dresden Maine, fall foliage colors on empty road
  • Blinn Hill in autumn, Dresden Maine, fall foliage colors on empty road
  • Maine beach scenic, Small Point, Phippsburg, Maine Seawall Beach
  • Maine beach scenic, Small Point, Phippsburg, Maine Seawall Beach
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  • View of the Camden Hills from Route One in Warren, Maine, golden buttercups and purple and pink lupines, early June
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  • Polygala paucifolia, known as Gaywings or Fringed polygala is also called Milkwort, Snakeroot. My mother always called it Birdy On the Wing. I think that might have been her own name for it or a very local nickname. This Maine wildflower is a spring ephemeral, dissappearing by the time the trees leaf out. It growns in dappled shade in lean soil. It has been used medicinally and was thought to improve the milk production of cows that at it. There are over 60 different species of Polygala in the United States. Most of the occur in the southeast. This is the one we see in Maine. Photographed in May, Phippsburg, Maine. It's tiny: only three inches tall and the flower is about 1 1/2 inch across. I had to lie on the ground for these photos taken with a macro lens. For a distribution map and more info on this wildflower, visit <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/polygala_paucifolia.shtml">http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/polygala_paucifolia.shtml</a>
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  • Looking east from Round Cove Road, Sebasco Estates, Phippsburg Maine to Burnt Coat Island Island with wild mustard in the foreground, May
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