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Java Water-Dropwort (Oenanthe javanica)Observer
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In a small ephemeral stream near roads, trails, and culverts
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Spinulose Wood Fern (Dryopteris carthusiana)Observer
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Edge of cleared prairie and woodland
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Orange Hobnail Canker (Amphilogia gyrosa)Observer
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Growing on the roots of what seems to be an oak in the red oak group
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Rock Polypody (Polypodium virginianum)Observer
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Co-occurring Asplenium platyneuron on the right in second photo
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Human (Homo sapiens)Observer
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A damaged tree stand
Based on what I can find, hunting is allowed within park boundaries, but only at designated times, and hunting hear isn't allowed to be left on park property
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Genus PostiaObserver
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On dead hardwood
Texture soft and "cheesy". No blue staining. Taste and odor indistinct. Caps zonate, tan to brown-orange, densely spreading hirsute but becoming matted. Pores round to sinuous, deeply lacerate at this stage, .5-3 per millimeter. It's possible that the pores show some slight reddish staining, although the reddish color discoloration didn't intensify as I handled the mushroom. The pores range from yellow-white to yellow-orange, with orange to rust colors where the growing basidiocarp has been affected by age or has grown around materials in the environment (an example of haptomorphosis).
Fuscopostia sp. stain reddish easily and directly, but I can't find any species in this genus with hirsute caps, even if the mushroom here is actually staining. Some Cyanosporus sp. have hirsute caps, although they also display bluish bruising or discoloration with age.
The closest match I can find is a relatively newly described species from China, Postia hirsuta.
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Feather Reed Grass (Calamagrostis × acutiflora)Observer
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Growing in a disturbed mesic to wet oak woods, but near a street and homes. It's possible that this was planted, although no other individuals of this species were seen nearby. It's also possible that this plant was spread on accident, perhaps just by someone casually tossing a picked seed head into the woods.
This observation keys to C. x acutiflora in Flora of North America This species is noted as being "seed sterile" in FNA. The last two photos here show the caryopses torward the bottom right. Many of the lemmas had caryopses, although only a smaller proportion had well-developed caryopses. I found more aborted and underdeveloped seeds than fully-formed seeds, although it's possible that a significant portion of the seeds had already fallen before I observed this plant.
If the presence of fully-formed grains excludes C. x acutiflora, then this might be a cultivar of Calamagrostis arundinacea. Based on "research grade" observations of wild ecotyoes, this species generally has a narrower inflorescence with branches more ascending, but very similar florets and foliage
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Pear Hawthorn (Crataegus calpodendron)Observer
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I'm calling this Crataegus calpodendron based initially on the seeds with distinct longitudinal grooves, which, by my understanding, is what is meant by "pitted" in Flora of North America. Therefore, this belongs in Crataegus (section Macracanthae) series Macracanthae.
The leaves are thin, yellow-green, and with veins not strongly impressed. The youngest twigs are nearly thornless and appear to have remnants of worn-off pubescence.
Within series Macracanthae, other potential species include C. succulenta and C. macracantha, which have blue-green coriaceous leaves. If this isn't in series Macracanthae, then this is most likely Crataegus punctata, although that species is noted as having thorny young branches
The following photos from the USDA Plants database show the seeds for C. succulenta and C. calpodendron with "pitted" seeds. And C. punctata with "plane" seeds.
C. succulenta
https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=CRSU5
C. calpodendron
https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=CRCA
C. punctata
https://plants.usda.gov/home/plantProfile?symbol=CRPU
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Spotted Tricholoma (Tricholoma pardinum)Observer
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In mesic to dry-mesic oak forest
This is the closest match I could find. But this mushroom might be too brown and not scaly enough for T. pardinum, which is a european species anyway
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Wild Cherry (Prunus avium)Observer
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A few small trees in a disturbed woodland/forest
I don't think this is actually Prunus avium, since the leaves lack petiolar glands, the spreading villous-hirsute hairs on the petioles and abaxial leaf veins, and the small rounded buds. However, there are short twigs with relatively densely clustered leaves, and the bark does look similar to Prunus avium, although it also looks similar to other Prunus species, some species in the Rhamnaceae, or Betula sp.
I'm stumped on this one, and hoping that someone who knows Prunus avium might have an idea of what this is
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Willow Beaked-gall Midge (Rabdophaga rigidae)Observer
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Elliptical stem galls on Salix petiolaris
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Boletes (Family Boletaceae)Observer
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In mixed woods, relatively abundant in the area
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Boletus patrioticusObserver
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In dry mesic red pine/white pine forest, but with diverse hardwoods and conifers including white birch, red oak, and hemlock
Blue stains slower to develop than red stains
I'm tentatively identifying this as Boletus patrioticus based on the distinctive red and blue staining in the flesh of the cap. However, the known range of this species is restricted to the Atlantic coastal plain and Appalachian regions. This species is also supposed to have olive tones in the young caps, according to Boletes of North America, which are absent here. However, confirmed observations on iNat suggested that B. patrioticus often lacks olive tones, being mainly red to orange as seen here.
Indeed, the cap color differences mentioned in Boletes of North America for a number of similar species don't seem to be completely useful due to overlap in the range of colors for many species. B. miniato-olivaceus and B. miniatopallescens are the next best matches I could find.
B. miniato-olivaceus is noted as having cap flesh red underneath the cuticle, although not specifically staining red. I was able to find some suggestion of red staining cap flesh in research grade observations of this species, but nothing as extensive as seen here. It also can have more pink tones to the young caps than seen here. It is known from south and east of Wisconsin.
B. miniatopallescens has a similar cap color to here. But isn't supposed to have red staining in the cap flesh. It has tentatively been observed in Wisconsin, although it may be more common to the south and east
Other possibilities include Lanmaoa sp.
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Somewhere near the interface between diverse mature second-growth mixed woods dominated by maple and basswood, and red pine/white pine woodland. Red oak and various hardwoods and conifers nearby
Moderately slow bruising
Or possibly Xerocomus or Xerocomellus. However, it seems like the species in those genera typically don't have such distinctly scabrous-scaly stipes
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Ornate-stalked Bolete (Retiboletus ornatipes)Observer
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Somewhere near the interface between diverse mature second-growth mixed woods dominated by maple and basswood, and red pine/white pine woodland. Red oak and various hardwoods and conifers nearby
Pores starting yellow, bruising and aging to brownish yellow or cinnamon-brown when mature, or more intensely dark yellow when young. Stipe with prominent fine reticulation on the upper half; areolae becoming vertically elongated and more faint in the lower half; ridges aging cinnamon-brown, particularly at the middle and lower parts of the stipe, cinnamon-brown staining developing elsewhere at least lower on the stipe. Pileus light gray-brown, subtomentose
Retiboletus ornatipes was the first suggestion from iNat, and this keyed very easily in North American Boletes
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Northern Spreadwing (Lestes disjunctus)Observer
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"Stepped line" demarcation between light and dark parts of thorax absent, ruling out L. congener. Darker back of heads rule out L. unguiculatus. Male with thorax fully pruinose rules out L. australis. Fully pruinose S2 in the male and smaller ovipositor in female distinguish this from L. forcipatus
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Northern Spreadwing (Lestes disjunctus)Observer
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"Stepped line" demarcation between light and dark parts of thorax absent, ruling out L. congener. Darker back of heads rule out L. unguiculatus. Male with thorax fully pruinose rules out L. australis. Fully pruinose S2 in the male and smaller ovipositor in female distinguish this from L. forcipatus