Camp Merryweather

This is a field guide to some of the spectacular organisms living in and around Camp Merryweather, Kennebec County, ME

Balsam Fir

Abies balsamea or balsam fir is a North American fir, native to most of eastern and central Canada (Newfoundland west to central Alberta) and the northeastern United States (Minnesota east to Maine, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to West Virginia).

Black Locust

Robinia pseudoacacia, commonly known as the black locust, is a tree of the genus Robinia in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States, but has been widely planted and naturalized elsewhere in temperate North America, Europe, Southern Africa and Asia and is considered an invasive species in some areas. A less ...more ↓

southern beaked sedge

Carex utriculata is a species of sedge known by the common name Northwest Territory sedge.

Edited by Marie Studer, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)