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Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- Flower-heads radiate
- plants pubescent
- Ray florets white
- Disk florets purplish
- leaves are lanceolate
- purplish stem
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Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- flower heads ligate
- outer phyllaries reflexes
- leaves deeply lobed
- inner phyllaries lack appendages
- purplish tint on stem
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Common Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- Blades broadly triangular
- Plants branched
- fronds divided often into three blades
- fronds arising at right angle to the stipe
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Genus LycoperdonObserver
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- white pear/top shaped fruiting bodies
- cone-shaped spines form on surface
- fruiting bodies are up to 5cm wide
- network of scars formed from spines sloughing off
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Violet-toothed Polypore (Trichaptum biforme)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- Pore surface purple, especially towards the margin
- pores round
- Fruiting body are shelving, overlapping
- flat to slightly convex
- fruiting body is white to cream or ochre becoming greyish with age
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Tawny Grisette (Amanita fulva)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reason for identification are:
- cup present
- gills free
- flat with central knob, radially striate
- cap is yellow-brown to orange brown
- white stem
- mature specimen
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Intermediate Wood Fern (Dryopteris intermedia)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- round shaped Indusia
-
blades 2-3 times pinnate at base
- innermost pinnules longer than those adjacent
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King Bolete (Boletus edulis)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Identification:
- tubes instead of gills
- yellowish tiny pores
- convex cap
- color of Cap is red-brown
- net-like markings on stalk (near apex)
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Basidiomycete Fungi (Phylum Basidiomycota)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Identification is narrowed to Tremella mesenterica and Dacrymyces palmatus, requires microscopic viewing to distinguish
- both are:
- irregularly lobed
- Gelatinous and yellow
-
fruits on dead logs
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Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- leaf sinuses between main lobes rounded
- winter buds brown
- bark on tree is furrowed
- bark is smooth and grey
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
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Flat-branched Tree-Clubmoss (Dendrolycopodium obscurum)Observer
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Eastern Teaberry (Gaultheria procumbens)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- Leaves alternative, not reduced to scales
- stems are reddish and smooth
- red berries
- leaves are terminal, dentate on the margins
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White Sweetclover (Melilotus albus)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- smooth light green stems
- leaves are trifoliate and alternate in arrangement
- flowers are small, floppy and tubular
- light green calyx
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Autumn Hawkbit (Scorzoneroides autumnalis)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- Ligulate flower heads
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Orchard Grass (Dactylis glomerata)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- distinctive tufted triangular flower head
- Spikelets are green and purple tinged
- ligules are long and membranous
- lemmas bear short awns
- flattened stem base
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Red Maple (Acer rubrum)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- leaf sinuses between the main lobes are pointed
- leaves simple with 3-5 lobes
- leaves serrated on their margins
- young twigs are red
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Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- Leaves are pinnately compound
- inflorescence distinctly stalked
- Violet flowers
- calyx tubes rounded
- branched tendrils at the tips of the leaves
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Jointed Charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- Yellow flowers
- hairy stems
- leaves outline is obovate
- flower borne in small corymbs
- purple nectar guides on flowers
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Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris)Observer
wilfredprosperDescription
Reasons for identification are:
- Leaves linear
- Flowers yellow
- Flowers tightly clustered at the top of the plant
- sport an orange palate
- Glaucous blue-green leaves
