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Using this ID as a place holder. I remember thinking this was a fern-leaved plant (but not a true fern) when I first saw this but can’t remember the reason now.. maybe a weak stem from the base. Could be an escaped garden plant. Looking for inputs

mid-stem leaves in comparison photo: S. flexicaulis (L), hybrid (centre), S. caesia (R). Lower stem leaves of hybrid were broader, with obvious lateral veins (see e.g., plant at bottom left of photo 1)

Found on gravelly/sandy shore.

I'm unfamiliar with this species and would appreciate input from others as it has not been posted on iNaturalist in Ontario to-date and not recognized by NHIC, to the best of my knowledge. I used MFO to arrive at the identification.

Did not have the strongly curled lower leaves of D.spicata. Inflorescence branches ascending. Leaves approx. 2.5mm wide and scabrous. Spikelets purplish. Lemmas pilose on margins and at base, and glabrous on the back, and 5mm long.

All of the wild gingers (Asarum canadense sensu lato) I was able to find throughout this sandy floodplain forest had glabrous, short-acuminate, strongly reflexed petals like this plant. I am not sure how widespread this variety is in Canada, but certainly is expected to be Carolinian in distribution.

WDV 255 (to UWO).

Carex viridula featured on the right. This photo is a convenient comparison of three members of section Ceratocystis, all growing in association with one another on the mineral sand shorelines of an alkaline lake. Carex cryptolepis is in the middle; C. flava on the left.

A very strange maple with leaves overall A. saccharum shaped but densely pubescent on abaxial surfaces and petioles. Doesn't resemble the black maples (A. nigrum) I'm familiar with from rich bottomlands in the Carolinian zone, which have leaves pubescent on both surfaces with shallow sinuses and blunt lobes.

Growing in shallow soil over limestone bedrock in a degraded treed alvar-like community.

Massassauga Point Conservation Area, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.