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Nodding Spurge (Euphorbia nutans)Observer
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Flower in a cap like structure and extends slightly from it. Structure typically has four sides. Leaves opposite, sessile, and serrated.
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Soft Rush (Juncus effusus)Observer
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Small brown flower like seeds protruding laterally. Top bracteal looks continuous with the stem.
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Virgin's-Bower (Clematis virginiana)Observer
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Multiple seeds per head, appear white and feathery. Leaves compound and notched at the tip. Plant vine like.
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Arrow-leaved Tearthumb (Persicaria sagittata)Observer
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Small pink terminal flowers expected in Polygonaceae. Stem square with prickles. Leaf base sagittate.
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Parrot's Feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum)Observer
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Living in the water near the edge but was rooted in the soil. Leaves whorled about the stem thing and compound. Stem not photosynthetic, large and squishy with adventitious roots on some parts.
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Inland Wood Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium)Observer
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Parallel veined leaves, spickelets green and purple and laterally compressed.
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Globe Flatsedge (Cyperus echinatus)Observer
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Triangular stem, brown seeds in terminal balls. Leaves whorled around terminal point.
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Plume Thistles (Genus Cirsium)Observer
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Flower heads large, terminal, solitary, and mostly purple but white is also visible near the bottom. Entire plant covered is spikes with leaves alternate that are thin and deeply lobed. Plant over three feet tall.
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Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum)Observer
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Flower heads made up of multiple light purple/blue flowers. Leaves deltoid shaped with slight serrations. Looks like compound umbel inflorescence.
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Giant Goldenrod (Solidago gigantea)Observer
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Multiple yellow flowers per head, small and numerous. Leaves are alternate, elliptic and serrated slightly. The stem is glabrous. Leaves are alternate with three main veins and the pappus are not doubled.
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Woolgrass (Scirpus cyperinus)Observer
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Seeds terminal, brown, numerous, and fuzzy. Plant about 4 feet tall. Achene are not enclosed in a sac and lack a caplike tubercle. Spicklets are extremely small, only a few millimeters long. Spicklets dropping and clustered terminally.
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Ovate Spikerush (Eleocharis ovata)Observer
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Almost hidden among the grasses. Leaves grasslike long and thin. Seeds small and terminal, base rounded and tapers to a tip.
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Small White Aster (Symphyotrichum racemosum)Observer
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Multiple flowers per head, looks like it belongs in Asteraceae. Leaves tiny, thin, and no petiole. Flowers small, ray flowers white and disc flowers typically yellow although a few are brown. Predominantly alternate orientation with what looks like corymb inflorescence. The heads are small, although the rays are larger in comparison to the disk flowers. The leaves are glabrous and sessile. The phyllaries come to a pointed sip but are not spiny.
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Small White Aster (Symphyotrichum racemosum)Observer
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Asteraceae family, with multiple flowers per head. Leaves were tiny and thin. Heads were small, rays were white and disk flowers where typically yellow and some brown. Phyllary were not spiky but did come to a point. Leaves and stem glabrous.
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Flatsedges (Genus Cyperus)Observer
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Specimen was about a foot tall will smaller ones close by. Long flat leaves whorled. Numerous spikelets per spike golden-brown in color about 1 cm long. Triangular smooth stem.
Cyperus esculentus, but it's extremely similar to Cyperacae Cyperus stigosus L.
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American White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata)Observer
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Mostly covered in shade. Plant was rooted in the pond. The leaves were above the surface of the water, but other lily pads were on the surface. Stem was thick and mostly hollow inside. Leaves were circular with a cut that went to the middle.
