ccantley's Favorites
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Agave ×Observer
mjpapayDescription
Agave ovatifolia x flexispina - created in 2016 by hand-pollinating my Agave ovatifolia with pollen of Agave flexispina provided by Tony Avent of Juniper Level Botanic Garden, Plant Delights Nursery, where this seedling selection now grows.
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American Jumpseed (Persicaria virginiana)Observer
zitsermDescription
The black chevrons are quite thick and extend almost to the margin of the leaf, so I'm not a 100% sure this is P. virginiana.
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Beech Leaf Disease (Litylenchus crenatae)Observer
zitsermDescription
Most of the young beeches here are infected
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Goldie's Wood Fern (Dryopteris goldieana)Observer
chuckt2007Description
growing in a diverse mature forest. No. 870906001.
See also: http://beta.floranorthamerica.org/Dryopteris_goldieana
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Narrow-leaved Glade Fern (Homalosorus pycnocarpos)Observer
chuckt2007Description
syn. Diplazium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) M.Broun, growing in a mature mesophytic forest with a diverse understory. No. 870821006.
See also: https://michiganflora.net/record/527 and
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:123746-2
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Observer
mjpapayDescription
On a branch of a Tulip Poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera.
UPPER SURFACE
- black cilia: present at margin
- isidia: profuse, cylindric, non-ciliate
- soredia: absent
- apothecia: absent
LOWER SURFACE
- rhizinate to margin
- dark brown
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Bulging Martian-Eyes (Maronea polyphaea)Observer
mjpapayDescription
On a branch of a Tulip Poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera.
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Curtis's Spurge (Euphorbia curtisii)Observer
mjpapayPlace
North Carolina Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA (Google, OSM)
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Mariana Maiden Fern (Macrothelypteris torresiana)Observer
naturallandsDescription
If correct ID, this apparently non-native fern is documented in FL from the 1930s
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Starved Witchgrass (Dichanthelium depauperatum)Observer
mjpapayDescription
upper leaves much longer than the lower leaves
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Oak-Hickory woodland
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Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)Observer
vvoelkerDescription
Mowed roadside edge of rich mesic forest. Most Polystichum plants here normal looking, a few with some creative rachis divisions.
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Deer Vomit (Fusicolla merismoides)Observer
zitsermDescription
On the cut end of Vitis
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Pine Needle Split (Lophodermium pinastri)Observer
zitsermDescription
On Pinus strobus needles
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Six-spotted Fishing Spider (Dolomedes triton)Observer
mjpapayDescription
Several of these were patiently waiting for any of the abundant Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis to pass below. Just after I mentioned this to my companion, one of the spiders made an attempt, but failed.
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Fowl Mannagrass (Glyceria striata)Observer
grinninDescription
I like the neat rhyme "Sedges have edges, Rushes are round, Grasses have nodes all the way to the ground" (most of the time): joint-like nodes (where the leaf sheath ends) are found along round, hollow grass stems, stems of sedges & rushes are solid; in cross-section the stems of rushes are round, sedges are triangular (giving them edges, but they have no nodes, & triangular-stem sedges have 3-ranked leaves, leaves arranged on all 3 sides of the stem; like sedges, rush stems also have no nodes)... common names (some of the time) can confuse: Broomsedge is a grass, not a sedge; Bulrush and Woolgrass are sedges, not a rush, nor a grass
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Lesser Smoothcap (Atrichum angustatum)Observer
mjpapayDescription
- margin of leaf toothed more than half its length
midrib occupies 1/3 or more of width of leaf
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Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians, 2013, pages 66, 67
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Frost Grape (Vitis vulpina)Observer
grinninDescription
Notes, many thanks to @ccantley: short, straight erect hairs on underside of young leaves; stems glabrous
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Life (Life)Observer
zitsermDescription
Spiny and thread like projections on a slimy stick submerged under water in a fresh water pond . Could these be aquatic fungi??
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Carolina Climbing-Milkweed (Matelea carolinensis)Observer
grinninDescription
First photo cropped, then full size, as are the rest
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Four-leaved Milkweed (Asclepias quadrifolia)Observer
chuckt2007Description
growing on a small glacial outwash deposit near the top of a steep slope, DNA sample is one of four upper stem leaves and a portion of the inflorescence. No. 870611017.
See also: https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/Asclepias/quadrifolia/
and
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70941394
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Smallflower Baby Blue Eyes (Nemophila aphylla)Observer
mjpapayDescription
I had originally mis-identified this as Phacelia ranunculacea.
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Iris × hybridaObserver
mjpapayDescription
1st photo
Left = 'Mango Entree'
Right = 'Open Ocean'
2nd photo
'Best Bet'
3rd photo
garden view
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Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)Observer
mjpapayDescription
- lobed margin
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Hemp Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum)Observer
grinninDescription
For the Peatland Sheetweb Weaver (Hypselistes florens) spider, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/207238913
For this Hemp Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum) 2 days later, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/207517818
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Streamside Leptodictyum Moss (Leptodictyum riparium)Observer
zitsermDescription
On a submerged branch in a vernal pool
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Hairy Solomon's-Seal (Polygonatum pubescens)Observer
zitsermDescription
Floating sheaths, hairy lower leaf surface
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Goldie's Wood Fern (Dryopteris goldieana)Observer
chuckt2007Description
growing in a rich bottomland area near the trail. No. 870728013.
See also: http://beta.floranorthamerica.org/Dryopteris_goldieana
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Spinulose Wood Fern (Dryopteris carthusiana)Observer
chuckt2007Description
growing in a well-drained upland forest. No. 870728010.
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Blackhaw (Viburnum prunifolium)Observer
grinninDescription
Notes, many thanks to @ccantley: opposite, finely serrated leaves with reddish petioles
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Eastern Fairy Shrimp (Eubranchipus holmanii)Observer
zitsermDescription
Female. Oblong ovisac
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Bacidia suffusaObserver
grinninDescription
For the adjacent Bacidia suffusa, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/205421248
For nearby Bacidia suffusa I found in the photos after I got home, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/205137676
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Wasp's Nest Slime Mold (Metatrichia vesparia)Observer
zitsermDescription
Under a log
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Honey Mushrooms (Genus Armillaria)Observer
zitsermDescription
The less commonly seen red coloration on Armillaria rhizomorphs. I sliced a rhizomorph in half lengthwise and discovered that it was very woody / cellulose looking.
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Honewort (Cryptotaenia canadensis)Observer
chuckt2007Description
growing in a steep walled tributary valley. No. 870611030.
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Thick-leaved Stonecrop (Sedum dasyphyllum)Observer
grinninDescription
For several of the Common Chrysalis-Snail (Lauria cylindracea), cf. inaturalist.org/observations/204448267
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Long Beech Fern (Phegopteris connectilis)Observer
chuckt2007Description
growing on steep walled rock faces along the edge of the gorge, rachis not winged between the lowest two pairs of pinnae. No. 870611023.
See also: https://michiganflora.net/genus/Phegopteris
