nartreb
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Thanks, I clicked through the mint family on the CtBtnclScty site but somehow I missed it. (sometimes the link location shifts and you end up clicking "next white flower" instead...)
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Harder one: damp location and bladelike leaves had me thinking this was an iris, but could it be a lily instead? I wasn't really paying attention to the leaves and didn't get a photo.
That is probably blue flag iris (Iris versicolor), or maybe the non-native yellow iris (Iris psuedocorus). They're both found in wetland habitats.
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Moosilauke's Gorge Brook Trail, 9/11/11:
Aster, Gorge Brook Trail by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr
Maybe White Wood Aster (Aster divaricatus)?
Aster, Gorge Brook Trail by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr
Maybe White Wood Aster (Aster divaricatus)?
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I was on an island in the CT River this week, and came across these:
alium tricoccum (ramps)
chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen)
Note the silty ground below the wintergreen. This island, which is generally above the flood zone, got almost completely flooded!
alium tricoccum (ramps)
chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen)
Note the silty ground below the wintergreen. This island, which is generally above the flood zone, got almost completely flooded!
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anyone know what this is?
sorry for the bad photo...looks like maybe in the wintergreen family?
I don't have my Newcomb's handy :-(
sorry for the bad photo...looks like maybe in the wintergreen family?
I don't have my Newcomb's handy :-(
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sorry for the bad photo...looks like maybe in the wintergreen family?
I don't have my Newcomb's handy :-(
looks like a Pyrola (rotundifolia or chlorantha?)
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Okay, this will likely be the last "spring" wildflower I post for this year!
I know it is a terrible picture, but I'm trying to decide if this was either a Hooker's Orchid, or a Round-leaved orchid (or maybe something else altogether!)....I found this in western NH on the edge of the White Mountains.
I know it is a terrible picture, but I'm trying to decide if this was either a Hooker's Orchid, or a Round-leaved orchid (or maybe something else altogether!)....I found this in western NH on the edge of the White Mountains.
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My guess would be Platanthera orbiculata (large round-leaved orchid). Hooker's doesn't have bracts on the stem. I can't compare sizes, but I'll assume it's not the really large-flowered round-leaved orchid (P.macrophylla) which has flowers about 2" compared to P. orbiculata's 1" flowers.
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