Boechera laevigata (smooth rockcress), Middlefield, CT
Lycopus rubellus (stalked water-horehound), Middleborough, MA. State Endangered.
The fruits have long narrow sepals exceeding the fruit; the fruits are flat across the top; the plants have tubers on long runners.
Setaria parviflora (knotroot foxtail), Haile Farm, Warren, RI. Special Concern. A new EO.
The plants are perennials with bumpy, knotty rhizomes. Our only native foxtail, our only perennial foxtail.
Linnaea borealis (American twinflower), Acadia National Park, ME
Absolutely gorgeous wall of these growing here.
Thalictrum dioicum (early meadow-rue), Kent, CT
Mitella diphylla (two-leaf mitrewort, two-leaved bishop's-cap), Kent, CT
Spiranthes vernalis (spring ladies'-tresses), Cooks Cemetery, Woonsocket, RI
Carex crinita var. brevicrinis (fringed sedge), Noank Ledyard Rd, Groton, CT. Achenes without a dent.
Vaccinium macrocarpon (large cranberry), Pawaget, Charlestown, RI
Hemileuca maia (buck moth), Exeter, RI
Lipocarpha micrantha (small-flowered dwarf-bulrush), Great Quittacas Pond, Lakeville, MA
Sabatia kennedyana (Plymouth rose-gentian), Barnstable, MA
Platanthera clavellata (little club-spur bog-orchid), Phillips Brook, West Greenwich, RI
Leaves, trigs and fruits covered with fine speckles. Leaves silvery underneath.
In a rich mesic woods, mid to upper slope, with lots of Erythronium and Trillium. A known site monitored by a great group of volunteers.
Liparis loeselii (Loesel's wide-lipped orchid), West Greenwich, RI
Trail Edge path with many sandplain species and a seep; deer trail through patch.
On granite.
Small patch of 65 plants in mature Nyssa sylvatica stand with moderate to low density of Clethra alnifolia. Close to small stream, well off trail. Gaultheria procumbens and Mitchella repens nearby but not much groundcover.
Small trailside patch with 35 plants, older stand Nyssa sylvatica, mesic to wet, moderate density Clethra understory and Gaultheria procumbens, Pyrola americana, Mitchella repens nearby.
Large population in old cranberry bog at Windswept, west side of Bog complex.
This is the localized population of Calopogon at Windswept.
Spectacular number of plants in this cove; only 10 or so as upright plants but loosely counted 300 rosettes minimum without looking too hard. I have no idea how many are in the second photo but easily 50 plants just from where I was standing when I too the photo. These were a fair bit away from the water as the water level is so low.
Looking like these will be the last pre-flower photos. Fun to watch them develop from winter rosettes.
Fruits developing while flower persists
Easily 500 on this pond but this is a rough estimate as I was doing a bird survey. Yellowish uprights in second and third photos are this species and included to show scale
Sabatia kennedyana (Plymouth rose-gentian), Yarmouth, MA
Minuartia michauxii (Michaux's sandplant), Greenfield, MA
Sabatia kennedyana (Plymouth rose-gentian), on the exposed shore of a coastal plain pond, Cape Cod, MA. Special Concern.
Feasting upon Ilex x attenuata berries.
Generally gynaecandrous, but some terminal spikes male or tipped with male flowers
I've submitted these plants before (2 years ago) and was just going back to check if I could refind them. The population here seems to be doing well. I am submitting this again because I am so pleased with this photo. Lower spikelets all female, perigynia more flattened than inflated, dark scales subtending the perigynia, and uppermost spikelet with males at the base place this in Racemosae. Buxbaumi is the only species in Racemosae in Norfolk County (the others occur in northwestern Maine, and northern Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont).
A known population. First iNat posting on the 13 state northeastern region. This is the northeastern-most population in the U.S. I noted no peppery taste in the leaves. This is a sturdy perennial with rhizomes, up to about three feet tall but can bloom at 12 inches as well. State-threatened species.
I feel so lucky to have found four of these flowers on my outing. Such a treat and the flowers clean white fading into a rosy pink. Made my day!
The flowers were attached to a rosette in which the substrate must have washed out with the recent heavy rains. It lacked roots and was still attached to the mother plant via rhizome/stolon