Photos / Sounds

What

Upswept Moonwort (Botrychium ascendens)

Observer

wernerehl

Date

May 2022

Description

It's not often that my fieldwork results in finding a new native globally rare species to add to the flora of Massachusetts, but it happened in May. ID confirmed by Vermont moonwort expert Art Gilman, author of the New Flora of Vermont. (Arthur Haines agreed as well).