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Fan Clubmoss (Diphasiastrum digitatum)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Sprawling stolons that give rise to scaly, whirled, green branches borne on an erect, green stem. The sporangia are on terminal strobili that are light green and in four parts. The leaves are tiny and scale-like.
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Dark Green Bulrush (Scirpus atrovirens)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Stems in clusters. Lower leaf blades and sheaths are green. Bristles longer than the achene.
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Grasses (Family Poaceae)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Lemmas with bluntly angled margins and sheaths nearly closed. Grains pubescent at apex. Spikelets about 10-16 mm in length.
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Blue Sedge (Carex glaucodea)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Blue green sedge with many small pergynium as pistillate spikes. Leaves are glaucous with a waxy layer. Pistillate scales short-awned.
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Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Bract goes past terminal inflorescence. Circluar stem. Basal leaf sheaths bladeless.
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Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)Observer
ajmorseDescription
White, flappy ligule. Gray-green, simple, alternate leaves. Flowers arranged in panicles.
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Hop Trefoil (Trifolium campestre)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Trifoliate leaves with no chevron. Sometimes noticeable rachis associated with one leaf. Green to black senescence.
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Woolgrass (Scirpus cyperinus)Observer
ajmorseDescription
This plant was in senescence. Brown, drooping panicles. Triangular stem. One glume.
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Sallow Sedge (Carex lurida)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Big perigynium on a spike. Triangular base. Stiminate below the pistillate but when mature extends past it. Yellow-green color.
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Rosy Sedge (Carex rosea)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Star shaped inflorescence. Simple alternate leaves. Spikes of green flowers.
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Fuzzy Wuzzy Sedge (Carex hirsutella)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Not pubescence and glabrous perigynium. Linear leaves that are simple and alternate. Flowers arranged in a spike.
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Rosette Grasses (Genus Dichanthelium)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Simple, alternate leaves. Flowers arranged in panicles. Fibrous roots.
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Tapered Rush (Juncus acuminatus)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Septate leaves. Dark bands on leaf.
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Blunt Spikerush (Eleocharis obtusa)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Terminal spike with rounded spikelet. Solid, round stem. 2-10 inches tall. Flowerhead is ovoid with blunt tip.
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Tall Fescue (Lolium arundinaceum)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Shiny green, sharp leaves with swollen nodes. Open sheath with small ligule.
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Hairy Rosette-Panicgrass (Dichanthelium acuminatum)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Hairy nodes and culm. Spikelets are 2.2-2.6 mm.
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Slender Path Rush (Juncus tenuis)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Brown bract at base of globule fruit.
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White Clover (Trifolium repens)Observer
ajmorseDescription
White flowers. Trifoliate leaves that are elliptic to obovate with white chevron on each leaf.
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Smooth Phlox (Phlox glaberrima)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Purple flowers with 5 petals and 4 green sepals. Leaves are opposite. Perfect flowers. In a cluster of other P. glaberrima. Smooth, non-spotted stems.
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Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Pinnate leaves that get narrower towards the apex of the rachis which are fertile compared to lower, larger, sterile leaves. Very scaly rachis.
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Roses (Genus Rosa)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Small rose bush with red flowers. Stems have abundant thorns. Leaves are characteristic of rosaceae family with serrated margins.
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Mock Strawberry (Potentilla indica)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Red, pseudo-strawberry fruit. Vine habit. Oddly pinnate leaves with serrate edges.
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Dwarf Mallow (Malva neglecta)Observer
ajmorseDescription
White, five-petaled flower with whitish stamens. Pubescence on stem with green, rounded, serrated, broad leaves.
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Fleabanes and Horseweeds (Genus Erigeron)Observer
ajmorseDescription
White flower with bunched, yellow stamens. Pubescence on the stem and flowers arranged in an umbel.
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Legumes (Family Fabaceae)Observer
ajmorseDescription
About 6 feet tall and 4 feet in diameter. Green, deciduous leaves that are compound and oddly pinnate. Smooth leaf edge with rounded tip.
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Cypress Family (Family Cupressaceae)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Bright green needles. 10-15 feet in height. Nodding branchlets.
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American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)Observer
ajmorseDescription
Big, palmate, lobed, green, deciduous leaves.
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Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora)Observer
ajmorseDescription
White flowers with 5 petals. Serrate leaves that are oddly pinnate. Yellow to brown stamens.
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Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)Observer
ajmorseDescription
White flowers with yellow stamens. Leaves are oval shaped with pointed tip.
