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Margaret Bridges, Butterfly and Zinnial in Seven Islands State Birding Park, Kodak, Tennessee
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Joani Robson, Catesby’s Trillium, photographed along Skitty Creek Trail in Highlands, North Carolina
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Angie Crowder, Summer barn
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Leslie Wagner, Sunflower on a farm in Dawsonville, Georgia
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Bruce Cumsky, A perfect green pepper in Franklin, North Carolina
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Keith Passmore, Sunflowers at the River Maze, Polk County, North Carolina
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Kaye Gatlin, Pink Lady Slippers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Lynn Cox Alexander
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Jim Caldwell, Clearwing moth
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Ralph Mayer, Honeysuckle near the North Carolina/South Carolina line
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Missy Arney, Yellow fringed orchid on the Blue Ridge Parkway
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Monica Jenkins, Passionflower.
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