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Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta)Observer
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Edge of lawn at a shopping center.
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Bird's-eye Speedwell (Veronica persica)Observer
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In a lawn behind a Dollar General (west side).
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Grey Field-Speedwell (Veronica polita)Observer
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Edge of asphalt on south side of a Dollar General. There were two similar-looking Veronicas nearby. This one had smaller flowers and shorted pedicels than the other, which I called V. persica.
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Honeysuckle Aphid (Hyadaphis tataricae)Observer
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End of peninsula, by the East Harbor Boat entrance, near a hiking trail. Last year's leaves persisting as underdeveloped small taco-shaped folds.
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Henbit Deadnettle (Lamium amplexicaule)Observer
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South side of a mound at a Travel Plaza. Leaves subtending flowers were sessile.
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Ulke's Mound Ant (Formica ulkei)Observer
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Ant mound in sunny open area near paved trail. Ants with black heads.
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Redstem Stork's-Bill (Erodium cicutarium)Observer
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By a fence at a Travel Plaza.
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Common Grape Hyacinth (Muscari botryoides)Observer
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In a lawn at a shopping center.
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Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)Observer
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By a fence outside a highway Travel Plaza.
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Tree-skirt Moss (Pseudanomodon attenuatus)Observer
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Base of hardwood tree near the North County Trail.
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American Lotus (Nelumbo lutea)Observer
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Shore of the Mississippi River in Trempealeau.
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Genus PlanorbellaObserver
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Shells on the shore of the Mississippi River in Trempealeau.
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Smooth-stalk Feather-Moss (Brachythecium salebrosum)Observer
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On shaded rock at Porcupine Hill. Iron County Forest. Leaves plicate, serrulate. Leaf cells not papillose. Setae smooth.
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Silvery Bryum (Bryum argenteum)Observer
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Thick patch on a sidewalk in Washburn.
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Northern Peatmoss (Sphagnum capillifolium)Observer
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Hummock at the edge of a bog. Ottawa National Forest. D4 C199 Stand 23. Microscope photos are branch leaves, close-up of a branch leaf, branch leaf section, and a stem leaf.
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Columbian Watermeal (Wolffia columbiana)Observer
ianshacklefordDescription
In a permitted sewage lagoon on National Forest land near a ski hill. With Lemna minor. Shackleford collection #727, https://michiganflora.net/specimen-record/1483225.
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Crome Sphagnum (Sphagnum squarrosum)Observer
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Moist spot in mixed forest. D2 C193 Stand 32. The first three microscope photos are branch leaves. The next three are stem leaves.
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British Soldier Lichen (Cladonia cristatella)Observer
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On a red pine stump. McCormick Lake Day Use Area, General Andrews State Forest.
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Narrow-leaved Meadow-Grass (Poa angustifolia)Observer
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Hardwood forest on east side of Forest Road 5320. Canopy is Acer saccharum and Tilia americana. Subcanopy Ostrya virginiana, Picea glauca, and Acer saccharum. Collected 10/17/2006 (Shackleford #685, last three photos) and 7/17/2007 (Shackleford #684, https://michiganflora.net/specimen-record/1289263). The October collection was remarkable in the leaves being up to 29 inches long.
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Wrinkle Lichens (Genus Tuckermanopsis)Observer
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On branches of a jack pine at McCormick Lake Day Use Area, General Andrews State Forest.
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Flat-top Bogmoss (Sphagnum fallax)Observer
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In a wet hollow in a bog. Forest Road 500 area, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Stem leaves deltoid and they seemed bordered to me. Branch leaves narrow and pointed; undulate when dry, flat to channeled. Green cells triangular, more exposed on the outer surface.
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Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha)Observer
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On the hull of a ship at the Washburn Marina.
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Catherine's Moss (Atrichum undulatum)Observer
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Soil of cut bank by a tributary to Sucker Creek. Leaves keeled.
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Sphagnum Subg. Subsecunda (Subgenus Subsecunda)Observer
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Moist ground at edge of James Lake, among sedges. Photos 5 to 8 are branch leaves. Photos 9 & 10 are stem leaves, toothed at the apex. The green cells of the branch leaves seemed equally exposed on both surfaces. Some hyaline cells of branch leaves had many pores along the margin. For a while I wondered if this was S. subsecundum but the leaf shapes didn't seem to match. Elsewhere the pores seemed to favor the ends and corners of the cells. I thought it had the "drowned kitten" look.
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Dotted Thyme-Moss (Rhizomnium punctatum)Observer
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Wet ground in swampy forest. Capsules nodding. Leaves entire. Costa extends to leaf apex.
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Delicate Fern Moss (Thuidium delicatulum)Observer
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On a shady rock outcrop. Ottawa National Forest. Microscope photos show a stem leaf, a branch leaf, and paraphyllia. The costa in the stem leaves ended below the acumen. Laminal cells unipapillose; leaf margins papillose-serrulate.
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Ciliate Hoarmoss (Hedwigia ciliata)Observer
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Flat open bedrock by Forest Road 7020. Ottawa National Forest.
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Bristly Haircap Moss (Polytrichum piliferum)Observer
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Flat open bedrock by Forest Road 7020.
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Methuselah's Beard Lichen (Usnea longissima)Observer
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Lots of pendulant Usnea on branches of a dead white spruce that had recently fallen. Spring Creek is in a deep, cool, narrow valley. North-northeast facing 35-degree slope. Forest of red maple, white spruce, paper birch, sugar maple, box elder, and black ash. Shackleford #691.
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Smooth Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)Observer
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One clump by a berm on north side of Forest Road 5350. Discovered by Katherine Schneider. I suspect this was introduced somehow.
