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Common Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea)Observer
chuckt2007Description
observed on the edge of a stream bank by the river; leaves less than 1/2 expanded at anthesis.
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Gray's Sedge (Carex grayi)Observer
chuckt2007Description
growing in a seasonally wet woodland area near a trail.
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Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)Observer
chuckt2007Description
observed in a rich bottomland area with dense growths of lesser celandine.
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American Chestnut (Castanea dentata)Observer
chuckt2007Description
a healthy sapling (C73) in an upland mixed-oak forested area.
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Oak Sedge (Carex pensylvanica)Observer
chuckt2007Description
a large population of plants growing in a mixed oak area with scattered C. willdenowii.
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Churchmouse Three-Awn (Aristida dichotoma)Observer
chuckt2007Description
Extensive area of growths in sunny opening with disturbed much compacted shaley soils. A tufted annual, branched from the base, leaves filiform, central awn 3-10 mm, divergent and loosely coiled, lateral awns straight and erect, 0.7 to 3.3 mm.
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Fire Pink (Silene virginica)Observer
bendingtreeDescription
Rare; single colony of scattered plants along trail through mixed mesophytic woods.
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Common Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)Observer
bendingtreeDescription
Among the more difficult flowers to photograph satisfactorily, especially in strong sunlight.
Abundant; dominant understory shrub or small tree in Liquidambar-Betula nigra-Acer negundo floodplain forest; Little Salt Creek.
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American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)Observer
bendingtreeDescription
Dominant canopy tree with Liriodendron and Betula nigra, floodplain forest along Little Salt Creek.
This photo is from a sapling.
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Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)Observer
bendingtreeDescription
Infrequent along seepage stream in small alder shrub swamp opening in woods.
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Wingstem (Verbesina alternifolia)Observer
botany08Description
Habitat: edge of open field/ pipeline ROW, where disturbance has occurred. Growth stage: in flower.
mid summer flower.
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Northern Blue Flag (Iris versicolor)Observer
botany08Description
Found in an Emergent and partial Shrub wetland complex, adjacent to the Cuyahoga River. Growing in soil series Holly silty loam.
Several patchy populations throughout the wetland. Carex pellita and Sorghastrum nutans and other Carex sp.
