Observations by kyle_b

Location: Specimen found near UMFK Lodge parking lot in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil was light colored and dry.

Habitat: Specimen located near the Lodge parking lot, tree was located in mowed grass. Area highly affected by people.

Location: Specimen found near UMFK Lodge parking lot in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil was light colored and dry.

Habitat: Specimen located near the Lodge parking lot, tree was located in mowed grass. Area highly affected by people.

Location: Specimen found near UMFK Lodge parking lot in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil was light colored and dry.

Habitat: Specimen located near the Lodge parking lot, tree was located in mowed grass. Area highly affected by people.

Location: Specimen found near UMFK Lodge parking lot in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil was light colored and dry.

Habitat: Specimen located near the Lodge parking lot, tree was located in mowed grass. Area highly affected by people.

Location: Specimen located at the edge of the UMFK Lodge parking lot near Paradis Grocery store in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil is moist and dark. Heavily weeded by grass.

Habitat: Growing in the treeline next to mowed grass lawn. Growing next to white spruce and mountain ash. Large old tree.

Location: Specimen located near the Fish River next to the Fort Kent Block House in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil is light colored, damp, with lots of dirt clods and roots.

Habitat: Specimen on a small slope going down into the river. It is in a thin stand of hardwood trees. The specimen is the only softwood in the area.

Location: Specimen located at the confluence of the St. John and Fish Rivers in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil is very dry and consists of a fine grit sand. Not many rocks.

Habitat: Specimen on the edge of the treeline covered by the same species. Some small grasses below. Tree was about 10 feet from the river.

Location: On the McDonald Trail in Fort Kent, Maine next close to McDonald's.

Substrate: Soil lightly colored, dry and rocky.

Habitat: Specimen growing adjacent to the trail at the base of a large paper birch. It was surrounded by a patch of sensitive ferns.

Location: Specimen found on McDonald trail in Fort Kent, Maine halfway between the bridge and McDonald's.

Substrate: Dry, dark and rocky soil.

Habitat: Specimen next to the trail at the edge of a floodplain next to a patch of burdock.

Location: Specimen on the McDonald trail in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Damp, dark, rocky soil with lots of fibrous roots.

Habitat: Specimen located next to the trail on a grassy hill. Growing with clover and other grasses.

Location: Specimen located next to the McDonald trail in Fort Kent, Maine near the ATV bridge.

Substrate: Dark and dry soil with small pebbles.

Habitat: Specimen located next to the trail and overlooking a floodplain. It was among hardwoods and tall herbaceous vegetation.

Location: Specimen was located on the Heritage ATV trail just south of the boarder crossing in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil was dark and moist. It was also heavily packed with rocks.

Habitat: The specimen was growing out of a steep eroded bank overhanging the ATV trail. This species dominates the understory along with some raspberries.

Location: Specimen was found on the Heritage ATV trail south of the town of Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil was dark and moist. The soil was also weeded by the large amounts of grass in the area.

Habitat: The specimen was growing in a thick patch of various grasses. It was very tall (about 3.5 feet). It was collected at the confluence of the ATV trail and a small footpath. A small swamp with cattails was located behind the patch of grasses.

Location: Specimen was located beside a grassy ski trail south of Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil was a medium dark color and significantly dry. The soil was also rooted by grass.

Habitat: Specimen was located in the understory on the edge of a grassy ski trail. It was growing in a patch of tall moss among small trees. It was overhung by small hardwoods.

Location: Specimen was located on a gravel knoll on the ski trails south of Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil was lightly colored, sandy, and moist. There were also different sizes of rocks mixed in.

Habitat: The ground was rocky and sparsely covered with moss. The gravel knoll was adjacent to a small meadow and surrounded by large hard and softwoods.

Location: Specimen was on the ski trail next to the tunnel that goes under the road to the call center.

Substrate: It was growing in a very thick mat of moss. The soil underneath was lightly colored and moist.

Habitat: Specimen was on a small slope beside the ski trail. The slope was covered in moss. Small quaking aspen and dogwood are spread out thinly as well as some grasses.

Location: Specimen was found beside a grassy cross country ski trail in Fort Kent, Maine.

Substrate: Soil had a very dark colored top layer that was full of organic matter. Under that thin layer is a lightly colored moist soil.

Habitat: Specimen was growing in a small patch. All the stems originated from the same spot in the soil which was about six inches in diameter. The stems branch out from this one spot. It was growing in with raspberry and goldenrod with fallen brush behind. There were small ash trees overhanging the plants.