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Wild Azalea Seep Area
The Wild Azalea Seep Area is comprised of approximately 60 acres of land. It is a very well-developed and little disturbed bayhead swamp or acid seep forest that begins near the head of the Wild Azalea National Recreation Trail at the origin of a creek branch in sandy longleaf pine hills, and continues at least to where the flow enters Lemotte Creek. The swamp averages about 50 yards wide along the ill-defined flow of the stream, and is quite mucky in spots.
Activities
Viewing Plants
| Species | Common species in the forest include sweetbay and blackgum in the overstory and possumhaw viburnum (Viburnum nudum), red bay (Persea borbonia), Virginia willow (Itea virginica), big-leaf waxmyrtle (Myrica heterophylla), poison sumac (Rhus vernix), climbing hydrangea (Decumaria barbara), and bamboo greenbrier (Smilax laurifolia) in the shrub layer. Understory species include sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis), cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea), royal fern (Osmunda regalis),joe-pye weed (Eupatorium fistulosum), crested fringed orchid (Platanthera cristata),green rein orchid (Plantanthera clavellata), bog moss (Mavaca aublettei, state-rare),and sphagnum moss.The cotone of the swamp and pineland supports such bog associated species as grass-pink orchid (Calopogon tuberosus), rose pogonia orchid (Pogonia ophioglossoides), and yellow fringed orchid (Platanthera ciliaris). |
Location
Latitude :
31.194443
Longitude :
-92.6045162