After leaving a satisfying visit to a rare Trillium location in the center of the state, Alan Cressler, and I drove a little more than an hour north to visit Forty Acre Rock Heritage Preserve in Lancaster County. This was my second time to visit the site (I had visited a week before), but it

After a drenching rain the night before, one of my botanizing friends, Alan Cressler, joined me on a day trip to Richland County (in central South Carolina) to see a rare Trillium, called Trillium oostingii or Wateree Trillium:

The day was predicted to be cloudy and windy. Cloudy is good for a wildflower photographer; windy is not. I had contacted one of my flickr friends, Will Stuart, to see if he was willing to join me at one of the most interesting granite outcrops in the Southeast. The name of the place is