Windsor County, Vermont
These are some of the life forms we can find in Hartland, Vermont and all of Windsor County.
ostrich fern
The ostrich fern or shuttlecock fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) is a crown-forming, colony-forming fern, occurring in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in eastern and northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.
Sensitive Fern
The Sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis), also known as the bead fern, is a coarse-textured, medium to large-sized perennial fern. The name comes from the observation by early American settlers that it was very sensitive to frost, the fronds dying quickly when first touched by it. It is the sole species in the monotypic genus Onoclea.
golden alexanders
Zizia aurea (Golden Alexanders, Golden zizia) is a flowering perennial forb of the carrot family (Apiaceae). Golden Alexanders is hardy in USDA zones 4-9. It can be found from Quebec to Saskatoon in Canada, south to Florida and Texas in the United States.
Partridgeberry
Mitchella repens , or Partridge Berry, or Squaw Vine, is the best known plant in the genus Mitchella. It is a creeping prostrate herbaceous woody shrub, occurring in North America and Japan, and belonging to the madder family (Rubiaceae).
Blue Cohosh
Blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) a species of Caulophyllum and family Berberidaceae, also called squaw root (a name often used for the parasitic flowering plant, Conopholis americana) or papoose root, is a flowering plant in the Berberidaceae (barberry) family. It is a medium-tall perennial with blue berry-like fruits and bluish-green ...more ↓
wild bergamot
Wild bergamot or Bee balm (Monarda fistulosa) is a wild flower native to North America. This plant is often used as honey plant, medicinal plant, and ornamental plant.
Hog Peanut
Amphicarpaea bracteata (Hog-peanut) is an annual to perennial vine in the legume family, native to woodland, thickets, and moist slopes in eastern North America.
Mountain Maple
Acer spicatum (Mountain Maple) is a species of maple native to northeastern North America from Saskatchewan to Newfoundland, and south to Pennsylvania. It also grows at high elevations in the southern Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia.
spring beauty
Claytonia virginica, the Eastern spring beauty, Virginia spring beauty, or fairy-spuds, is a flowering plant in the family Portulacaceae, native to eastern North America. It is found in moist woods and clearings. It is a trailing plant growing to 5-40 cm long. The leaves are slender lanceolate, 3-14 cm long and 5-13 mm broad, with a 6-20 cm long petiole. The ...more ↓
spotted Joe-Pye weed
Eutrochium maculatum (Spotted Joe-pye Weed) is a member of the Asteraceae family. E. maculatum ranges from Missouri east to the Atlantic Ocean and as far north as Ontario and Quebec south to Kentucky.
New England Aster
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (formerly Aster novae-angliae), commonly known as the New England Aster, is an herbaceous perennial in the composite family. It is native to almost every area in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, but excluding the far north of Canada as well as some of the southern United States.
broadleaf toothwort
Cardamine diphylla (Broadleaf toothwort, Crinkle root, Crinkle-root, Crinkleroot, Pepper root, Twin-leaved Toothwort, Twoleaf toothwort, Toothwort; syn. Dentaria diphylla Michx., Dentaria incisa Small) is a plant is native to North America.
common boneset
Eupatorium perfoliatum or (Common) Boneset is a common perennial plant native to the Eastern United States and Canada, with a range from Nova Scotia to Florida, as well as from Louisiana and Texas through North Dakota. It is also called "agueweed", "feverwort" or "sweating-plant". It was introduced to American colonists by Indians who used the plant for breaking fevers by ...more ↓
White Snakeroot
White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima), also known as White Sanicle or Tall Boneset, is a poisonous perennial herb in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern North America. An older binomial name for this species was Eupatorium rugosum, but the genus Eupatorium has undergone taxonomic revision by botanists and a number of the species once ...more ↓
Wood nettle
Laportea canadensis or wood-nettle, is an annual or perennial herbaceous plant of the nettle family Urticaceae, native to eastern and central North America. It is found growing in open woods with moist rich soils and along streams and in drainages.
Groundnut
Apios americana, sometimes called the potato bean, hopniss, Indian potato or groundnut (but not to be confused with other plants sometimes known by the name groundnut) is a perennial vine native to eastern North America, and bears edible beans and large edible tubers. It grows to 3–4 m long, with pinnate leaves 8–15 cm long with 5–7 leaflets. The ...more ↓
American Spikenard
Aralia racemosa (American spikenard, Life-of-man, Petty morel) is an ornamental plant in the Araliaceae family native to the United States and Canada. It is a herbaceous plant, about one to two meters tall, which grows in shady areas. Its native range includes most of the eastern United States.
Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis (commonly Wild Sarsaparilla or False sarsaparilla, also Shot bush, Small Spikenard, Wild Liquorice, Rabbit Root) is a flowering plant of northern and eastern North America which reaches a height of 1–2 feet (30–60 cm) with creeping underground stems.
Sweet-fern
Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina) in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales. It is native to eastern North America, from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia, and west to Minnesota. The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern.
Carex plantaginea
Carex plantaginea is a perennial herb of the sedge family with the common name seersucker sedge or plaintainleaf sedge, which grows up to 0.9 metres (2 ft 11 in) tall. It grows in meadows and woods from Maine to Georgia.
Red Spruce
Picea rubens (red spruce) is a species of spruce native to eastern North America, ranging from eastern Quebec to Nova Scotia, and from New England south in the Adirondack Mountains and Appalachians to western North Carolina.
long beech fern
Phegopteris connectilis, commonly known as Long Beech Fern, is a species of fern native to forests of the Holarctic Kingdom.
Fan Clubmoss
Diphasiastrum digitatum is known as Groundcedar or Crowsfoot, along with other members of its genus, but the common name Fan Clubmoss can be used to refer to it specifically. It is the most common species of Diphasiastrum in North America. It is a type of plant known as a clubmoss, which is within one of the three main divisions of living vascular ...more ↓
Amur maple
Acer ginnala (Amur Maple) is a plant species with woody stems native to northeastern Asia from easternmost Mongolia east to Korea and Japan, and north to southeastern Siberia in the Amur River valley. It is a small Maple with deciduous leaves that is sometimes grown as a garden subject or boulevard tree.
Cow Parsley
Anthriscus sylvestris, known as Cow Parsley, Wild Chervil, Wild Beaked Parsley, Keck, or Queen Anne's lace, is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the family Apiaceae, genus Anthriscus. It is also sometimes called Mother-die (especially in the UK), a name that is also applied to the Common Hawthorn. It ...more ↓
Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed, Rose Milkweed, Swamp Silkweed, and White Indian Hemp) is a herbaceous, perennial plant species native to North America. It is found growing in damp to wet soils and also is cultivated as a garden plant for its attractive flowers, which are visited by butterflies and other pollinators due to its copious production ...more ↓
Threeleaf Goldthread
Threeleaf Goldthread (Coptis trifolia, synonym Coptis groenlandica) or Savoyane is a perennial plant in the genus Coptis, a member of the Ranunculaceae family.
Tall Thimbleweed
Anemone virginiana is an upright growing herbaceous plant species in the genus Anemone and family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 30 to 80 cm (11" to 31.5") tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are white or greenish-white. After flowering the fruits are produced in a dense rounded thimble shaped spikes 15 to 35 mm (0.6" to 1.4") ...more ↓
small-flowered crowfoot
Ranunculus abortivus is a flowering plant species in the Ranunculus (buttercup) family known by the common name little-leaf buttercup or small-flowered buttercup. It is native to North America, with a distribution that covers much of the northern, eastern and central part of the continent.
large-flower bellwort
Large-flowered bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) is a plant in the family Colchicaceae, native to eastern North America. It blooms in May, producing large yellow flowers. The top parts of the plant tend to bend downward due to the weight of the leaves and flowers. The light green stems are round, glabrous, and glaucous and the leaves are perfoliate since the stem appears to come ...more ↓
Meadowsweet
Spiraea alba, commonly known as narrowleaf meadowsweet, pale bridewort, or pipestem, grows on wet soils of the Allegheny Mountains and other portions of eastern North America....
purple crown-vetch
Securigera varia, commonly known as Crown Vetch or Purple Crown Vetch, is a low-growing legume vine. It is native to Africa, Asia and Europe and is commonly used throughout the United States and Canada for erosion control, roadside planting and soil rehabilitation. It has become an invasive species in many states of the US.
sharp-lobed hepatica
Anemone acutiloba (Sharp-lobed hepatica) was placed in the genus Hepatica but has been moved to Anemone. This is an attractive flowering, clump forming herbaceous plant species in the family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 5 to 19 cm tall, flowering early to mid spring. The flowers are greenish-white, white, purple or pinkish in color, with a rounded shape. After ...more ↓
Showy Tick-Trefoil
Desmodium canadense (Showy Tick-trefoil or Canadian Tick-trefoil) is a native North American forb of the Fabaceae family.
purplestem angelica
Angelica atropurpurea is a species of plant that can be found in moist and swampy woodlands, mostly by riverbanks. The plant grows to 6 feet (180 cm) tall with an erect branching stem that is purple. The stem is smooth, hollow, and sturdy. The leaves are divided into three parts, each with its own petiole. Each part of the leaf is subdivided into three to five segments. The ...more ↓
Anemone cylindrica
Anemone cylindrica is an upright growing, clump forming herbaceous plant species in the genus Anemone and family Ranunculaceae. Plants grow 30 to 100 cm tall, flowering early summer but often found flowering till late summer, the flowers are greenish-white. After flowering, the fruits are produced in a dense rounded columned spikes 20 to 35 mm long. When the fruits, ...more ↓
Mountain Wood-sorrel
Oxalis montana is a species of flowering plant in the Oxalidaceae known by the common names mountain woodsorrel, wood shamrock, sours and white woodsorrel. It may also be called common woodsorrel, though this name also applies to its close relative, Oxalis acetosella. This species is native to eastern North America, including eastern ...more ↓
Labrador tea
Rhododendron groenlandicum (Bog Labrador tea, formerly Ledum groenlandicum or Ledum latifolium), is a flowering plant in the subsection Ledum of the large genus Rhododendron in the family Ericaceae. It is a low shrub growing to 50 cm (rarely up to 2 m) tall with evergreen leaves 20–60 mm long and 3–15 mm broad. The leaves are ...more ↓
cinnamon fern
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, the Cinnamon Fern, is a species of eusporangiate fern in the family Osmundaceae. It is native to the Americas and eastern Asia, growing in swamps, bogs and moist woodlands.
princess pine
Lycopodium obscurum, commonly called ground pine or princess pine, is a species of clubmoss in the family Lycopodiaceae. It is a close relative of other treelike Lycopodium such as L. dendroideum and L. hickeyi. It is distributed from Alabama to the east coast of the United States, and north into Canada. Newfoundland is in the northeast corner ...more ↓
Black Swallow-wort
Cynanchum louiseae, a species in the milkweed family, is also known as Black swallow-wort, Louise's swallow-wort., or Black dog-strangling vine,Cynanchum louiseae is a species of plant that is native to Europe and is found primarily in Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain. It is an invasive plant species in the northeastern United States, parts of the ...more ↓
