New Hampshire - 2008 Plants
Mountain Lakes, North Haverhill, NH and vicinity

Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine), an orchid.

 

The flowers vary in color from greenish white to purple.

Each holds a pool of sweet liquid that attracts insects.

Flowers look good with the lake as background.

 

 

A Knapweed (Centaurea sp.).

Cultivated Day-lily (Hemerocallis fulva).

Flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus).

Blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis).

Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana).

Several species of Aster (Aster sp.) were blooming.

 

Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis).

Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora).

A Thistle (Cirsium sp.).

Orange Hawkweed (Hieracium aurantiacum).