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Genus CyathusObserver
flippyfrogDescription
Approximately 5 mm across cup.
Growing under a red oak.
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Viburnums (Genus Viburnum)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
serrate ovate leaves
oppositely arranged
cluster of blue black elongate berries--tasty!
Growing in a weedy margin
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Common Knotgrass Complex (Complex Polygonum aviculare)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
creeping in grass.
Short ragged ochrea
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Grey Alder (Alnus incana)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
bark has prominent lenticels
Leaf is doubly serrate with a bloom on on the lower surface.
Growing in a clump on the shore of Weston's Mill Pond
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Nodding Sedge (Carex gynandra)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Triangular stem
3 carpellate flowers below 2 staminate flowers
scabrous lower leaf sheaths
scales of perigynia taper to the apex
Growing on shore of Weston's Mill Pond in a very small clump
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Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
In a group of trees colonizing a formerly cleared area.
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Dotted Knotweed (Persicaria punctata)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
5 tepals
tepals have small dots
short bristly sheathes
growing on the shore of Weston's Mill Pond
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American Groundnut (Apios americana)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Twining vine with alternate pinnately compound leaves.
Fruit is a pod with brown seeds inside.
Root with tubers.
Growing along the shore of Weston's Mill Pond
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Common Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Yellow ray and ochre disk flowers on alternately leaved, winged stems.
Growing on shore of pond.
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Woodsy Thyme-Moss (Plagiomnium cuspidatum)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Ovate leaf with midrib. Teeth from tip to mid-rib.
with a bird's nest fungus in the Cyathus genus in the Nidulariaceae family
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Shield Lichens, Sunburst Lichens, Rosette Lichens, and Allies (Subclass Lecanoromycetidae)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Growing on a rock
Grey-green lichen
Leaf form with solid lobe surface pattern.
Soralia on top
Maybe Dirinaria frostii?
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Common Evening-Primrose (Oenothera biennis)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Alternately arranged serrate leaves.
radially symmetrical 4 petaled yellow flowers
pubescent stem and buds
growing next to fence in a waste area.
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Pale Smartweed (Persicaria lapathifolia)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
lanceolate leaves, some with dark spot on top,
long nodding raceme of 4-petaled flowers
stipule without bristles
growing at the base of a chain link fence.
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American Witch-Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
The leaves are oval with wavy-toothed veins.
flowers are pale yellow with four ribbon-shaped petals and four short stamens
fruit is a hard woody capsule
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Sweet Pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Toothed leaves alternately arranged,
Raceme of capsules
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Black Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
black fruits in clusters
simple serrated leaf
leggy shrub growing under red oak.
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Round-leaved Trailing Tick-Trefoil (Desmodium rotundifolium)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
In moist woods, 5 m from shore of Weston's Mill Pond
A low growing vine with purple flowers that grow from leaf axils.
The fruit pod is covered with sticky hairs.
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Yellowseed False Pimpernel (Lindernia dubia)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Low growing prostrate plant
opposite leaves
small tubular flower with lower lip longer than upper lip.
growing at water's edge.
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American Bugleweed (Lycopus americanus)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Near water's edge
long triangular sepals
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Horned Oak Gall Wasp (Callirhytis quercuscornigera)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
spiky growths on Quercus palustris
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Devil's Beggarticks (Bidens frondosa)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
5-10 sepals on flower
3 leaflets per compound leaf
attractive to bees
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American White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
in pond 2 meters from shore
Peltate leaf with one deep narrow sinous.
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White Turtlehead (Chelone glabra)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
On pond edge
30 cm to 80 cm tall
Dark green shiny lanceolate leaves with serrate margins
numerous flowers on spike
better than a head
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False Daisy (Eclipta prostrata)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Located on muddy shore of pond
Small prostrate fleshy stems
Leaves lanceolate and finely hairy,
oppositely arranged
Small composite flowers 6 mm diameter
Seed head 1 cm across
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Dodders (Genus Cuscuta)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Near pond edge--twined around another plant
numerous fruit capsules on stem,
But really the clincher is:
Flowers with capitate stamens, sepals connate,
5-merous obtuse corolla lobes, calyx as long as basal petals,
petals don't overlap,
and fruit with stylopodium
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Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
Near edge of pond
1 to 2 m. tall
pinnately compound leaf with 7 leaflets. Terminal leaf has a 1/2' long petiolule, lower leaves are sessile
Alternately arranged
1/4 inch prickles are paired on stem.
fruit is hairy
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Mapleleaf Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)Observer
flippyfrogDescription
0.4 to 0.6 m tall
blue-black berries in umbel
serrate 3 lobed leaves
oppositely arranged