Some native plants in flower at Dobbins Mountain



bird's-foot violet, Viola pedata	blue sage, Salvia azurea	camphorweed, Heterotheca camporum	common clasping aster, Symphyotrichum patens


common horseweed, Conyza canadensis	downy lobelia, Lobelia puberula	downy ragged goldenrod, Solidago petiolaris	eastern gray goldenrod, Solidago nemoralis


erect goldenrod, Solidago erecta	false-dandelion, Pyrrhopappus carolinianus	Georgia aster, Symphyotrichum georgianum	grass-leaved blazing-star, Liatris pilosa


grass-leaved golden-aster, Pityopsis aspera	Kuhnia, Brickellia eupatorioides	licorice goldenrod, Solidago odora	Maryland goldenaster, Chrysopsis mariana


narrowleaf false-foxglove, Agalinis tenuifolia	old field aster, Symphyotrichum pilosum	rabbit tobacco, Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium	rough blazing-star, Liatris aspera

roundleaf thoroughwort, Eupatorium rotundifolium	small-head sunflower, Helianthus microcephalus	small-leaf white snakeroot, Ageratina aromatica	southern crownbeard, Verbesina occidentalis


starved aster, Symphyotrichum lateriflorum	stiffleaf coreopsis, Coreopsis major var. rigida	stiff-leaved aster, Ionactis linariifolia	stone-mint, Cunila origanoides


tall goldenrod, Solidago altissima var. altissima	wedgeleaf thoroughwort, Eupatorium glaucescens	white wingstem, Verbesina virginica	white-bracted thoroughwort, Eupatorium album


I found lots of a rare plant, Georgia aster, in the powerline right-of-way that runs beside the south edge of the conservation easement. There are hundreds of plants with several concentrations. Known formerly as Aster georgianus and nowadays as Symphyotrichum georgianum, this Federal Candidate Species is mostly found today in powerline rights-of-way, as at Dobbins Mountain. Results of a more formal and systematic count and mapping are presented in a separate report, "Mapping and Count of Georgia Asters at the Rollins Ranch, Bartow County, Georgia, November 2011"

Georgia aster, Symphyotrichum georgianum	Results of preliminary mapping of Georgia aster colonies, October 29th. Areas walked indicated in gray.
Photos by Jim Allison