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Doellingeria is uncommon in this area except when it comes in prairie seed mixes and blooms later in the year like asters. The aster-like plants we are seeing now are typically one of three species of fleabane.
We really appreciate your observations and I hope you also consider placing them on the Summit County region project. They will be valuable for regional conservation efforts.
I will be happy to enter them. I was thinking that project was limited to Summit County but I read more carefully a couple minutes ago. Thanks for the ID. I know D umbrellata is uncommon and is not supposed to be in bloom yet but we were at a location that was the last known location in Ohio for Harris Checkerspot whose host plant is D umbrellata which is known to grow quite a bit in the area we were at so we were looking for it and thought maybe it came into bloom early due to the warm season but not experienced enough to pick it out.
Oddly enough I was just looking for that butterfly with Jeff Hooper in Twinsburg near Tinkers Creek State Park yesterday as well. Also in an area with a lot of flat topped aster. I could not pick the aster out yet either.
Actually, the firs part of my previous comment was mistaken anyway. See I am still using "Aster" as the genus for the group, so I got mixed up with your ID and was thinking of a totally different species. Flat topped aster is not actually that rare in the region.
I would really like to know if you find Harris' checkerspot or have seen it anywhere in NE Ohio in the past few years. Seems like everyone's chasing old records right now.
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Doellingeria is uncommon in this area except when it comes in prairie seed mixes and blooms later in the year like asters. The aster-like plants we are seeing now are typically one of three species of fleabane.
We really appreciate your observations and I hope you also consider placing them on the Summit County region project. They will be valuable for regional conservation efforts.
I will be happy to enter them. I was thinking that project was limited to Summit County but I read more carefully a couple minutes ago. Thanks for the ID. I know D umbrellata is uncommon and is not supposed to be in bloom yet but we were at a location that was the last known location in Ohio for Harris Checkerspot whose host plant is D umbrellata which is known to grow quite a bit in the area we were at so we were looking for it and thought maybe it came into bloom early due to the warm season but not experienced enough to pick it out.
Oddly enough I was just looking for that butterfly with Jeff Hooper in Twinsburg near Tinkers Creek State Park yesterday as well. Also in an area with a lot of flat topped aster. I could not pick the aster out yet either.
Actually, the firs part of my previous comment was mistaken anyway. See I am still using "Aster" as the genus for the group, so I got mixed up with your ID and was thinking of a totally different species. Flat topped aster is not actually that rare in the region.
I would really like to know if you find Harris' checkerspot or have seen it anywhere in NE Ohio in the past few years. Seems like everyone's chasing old records right now.
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