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Broad-leafed Helleborine (Epipactis helleborine)Observer
jovang123Description
Achlorophyllous epipactis? Only found 1 like this, growing amongst Arisaema, nearest regular epipactis was over 20 ft away.
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Virginia Springbeauty (Claytonia virginica)Observer
tomarmstrongDescription
This yellow “lutea” variant of the spring beauty is occasionally found in Bucks and Chester Counties, PA and in MD. It was not previously reported in New Jersey. It is not the hammondiae variant of C. virginica found only in north New Jersey.
There are four of the yellow color variant plants in a small cluster, and they are exhibiting differences in the yellow intensity, and as of 4/28, one bloom does not have the pink anthers and pink tint to the filaments.
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flamingninetales77Description
Monarch affected by pathogen. Crumpled wings.
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Toothed White-topped Aster (Sericocarpus asteroides)Observer
doug_mcgradyDescription
Sericocarpus asteroides (toothed white-topped-aster), Kennebunk, ME. State Endangered.
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Common Loon (Gavia immer)Observer
biancapetermanDescription
saw this guy sitting very still on the shore and he let me get pretty close. he looked fine but was possibly injured because his behavior was weird.
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Leatherback Sea Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)Observer
drewcollins412Description
jellyfish in mouth
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Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)Observer
mikefitzDescription
This observation is for the salamander in the pitcher. I was surprised to find this salamander in a Sarracenia purpurea pitcher plant. It was alive. Shortly after I took the photograph, it dove deep into the pitcher where I could not see it. Although I could've missed it, I went back to this spot a week after taking this photo and could not find the salamander.
Evidently, salamanders can be prey for pitcher plants. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.2770
Observation for the plant is here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141415049
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Gloiodon strigosusObserver
emmatrueDescription
Hairy, very long teeth, older specimens were a darker brown color. On a rotting log in a (currently dry) bog/wetland area of a mixed forest
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Rock Gunnel (Pholis gunnellus)Observer
cinnamon325Description
Individual 2, flipped under rock with a second gunnel and an eel, put in photo tank for pics and then released (last pic as flipped)
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Northern Spring Salamander (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus ssp. porphyriticus)Observer
alacorazza
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Beach Plum (Prunus maritima)Observer
sammateyDescription
Plum being pollinated by both bumble and honey bees
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Eastern American Blue Violets (Subsection Borealiamericanae)Observer
laurenkufflerDescription
Two different patches, one with spotted petals.
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Tuberous Grasspink (Calopogon tuberosus)Observer
salamanderdocDescription
Calopogon tuberosus alba, the rarer white form of this grasspink!
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Common Tuberous Grasspink (Calopogon tuberosus var. tuberosus)Observer
salamanderdocDescription
Several white specimens last year among the more usual pink ones. 'Albino'??
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Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon ssp. sipedon)Observer
derekyorksDescription
Remains of dead watersnake on side of route 143 by wetland and RR crossing. Not the best specimen but large size, keeled scales, and pattern on tail rule out any other snake species. Etna
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Ragged Fringed Orchid (Platanthera lacera)Observer
derekyorksDescription
In vegetated acidic ditch at Sanford airport. At least two plants observed
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Eastern Musk Turtle (Sternotherus odoratus)Observer
phillipdemaynadierDescription
One adult basking at water surface / captured by Derek Yorks / Winthrop Twp
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Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)Observer
schaferphoDescription
Etta Bay National Park
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Boto (Inia geoffrensis)Observer
schaferphoDescription
Amazon River Dolphins or Botos (Inia geoffrensis) Mother and Calf underwater in Flooded Forest, Rio Negro, Amazonia, Brazil
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Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina ssp. carolina)Observer
ecobean01Place
Private
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Common Garter Snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)Observer
amelia239Description
Taken on bike trail freebooter
