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Basidiomycete Fungi (Phylum Basidiomycota)Observer
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Growing out of soil in hemlock ravine
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Dog Sick Slime Mould (Didymium spongiosum)Observer
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Growing on cedar(?) mulch in national life parking lot garden right over a (planted) fragrant sumac leaf, a week after extreme flood deluge. This area is on a hilltop high above the floods. In a garden setting.
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Indian Elecampane (Inula racemosa)Observer
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Heavily grazed by cattle so pretty beaten up for ID. This species is relatively new to VT.
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European Water-Horehound (Lycopus europaeus)Observer
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Our new invasive species….
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Amur Corktree (Phellodendron amurense)Observer
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A larger patch of 4 trees to about 20 ft tall naturalizing. There are other old regionally native plantings around but these weren’t planted here. These seem to be new state records in the wild.
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Ursine Spurleg Lady Beetle (Brachiacantha ursina)Observer
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Landed on the picnic table.
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Amur Corktree (Phellodendron amurense)Observer
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Naturalizing on campus. 4 vegetative saplings in 2 spots along trails, possibly from a planted tree on campus or nearby, but these trees are naturalized and establishing.
Strongly odiferous.
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Japanese Stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum)Observer
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New county record for this invasive species. But presumably there are more stands around.
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Japanese Stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum)Observer
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All along trail at parking for maybe 100 ft in
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Eastern American Copper (Lycaena hypophlaeas ssp. hypophlaeas)Observer
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Duskywings (Genus Erynnis)Observer
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About 30+ individuals flying and chasing each other around the rocky opening at a chestnut planting in a dry oak forest. Of all the possible dusky wing host plants, red and white oaks are highly dominant, and some chestnuts, columbine present more broadly at the site. They wouldn't sit still long on the quartzite, so photos are of various individuals, and I see only 1 shows the discal cell end spot of Juvenal's or Horace's. I struggled to get an underside photo.
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Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata)Observer
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Newish small patch. Good wild spot far from roads for making into pesto!
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Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)Observer
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Milky sap. 3” DBH. Definitely Norway maple but unusually remote for this species.
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Common Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)Observer
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One of the only very sparse ones in this region of the park too large are wedged in rock to hand pull
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Pixie Cup and Reindeer Lichens (Genus Cladonia)Observer
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On dolomite outcrop in oak hickory hop hornbeam ledgy woodland.
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Pelt Lichens (Genus Peltigera)Observer
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On dolomite outcrop in oak hickory hop hornbeam ledgy woodland.
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Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)Observer
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Many individuals Sipping black birch syrup from the ground where it is dripping from the gash of a recently broken limb.