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- Hi Ace Botanists! Earlier this year you helped me identify that my Garden In the Woods-purchased Conoclinium coelestinum (Blue mistflower) was nowhere to be seen under a patch of invasive Campanula rapunculoides (Creeping bellflower). I pitchforked out the bellflower tubers and have been plucking single and alternate leaves as I see them. You have helped me save this patch! Are these little ones likely rhizomatous remnants from the same individual I planted last year, or did it self-seed?
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- Dear waggledance, good morning. It would be hard to answer your question without being there to observe what is occurring in the soil. Given the large number that have seeded, it certainly seems plausible that these self-seeded, especially because they occupy a patch (not just a few lines along a rhizome). I am glad to read the patch was saved! Best wishes. (Friday, 13 June 2025)
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- South Bend, Indiana. Off Ironwood Drive, just north of Douglas. How prolific is this plant in the area?
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- Dear Chris, good afternoon. I can't see the plant well in the image you sent. Do you have additional images? If so, please post or feel free to email them to me (ahaines@nativeplanttrust.org). Best wishes. (Monday, 9 June 2025)
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- Hello, Picture This repeatedly identified this plant as Silky Dogwood. Before I post it as a sighting, I wanted to check with an expert. It was in my yard in Woodbridge, CT, at the edge of our wooded lot. The soil is clay and in that area, varies between moist and wet.They are appearing in some spots where we have been euthanizing multiflora rose. Their companions: spice bush, sensitive fern, goldenrod, winterberry, jumpseed, & arrowwood viburnum. None were blooming. Thank you!
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- Dear LydiaFT, good morning. The confident answer is that we can't tell. This is certainly a dogwood (genus Swida), and we can rule out some species, but we can't tell with certainty which species this is from the images provided (Picture This isn't giving you a realistic answer). However, one way we can determine it is Cornus amomum (silky dogwood) is to cut one of the two-year-old branches and look for brown colored pith (the other dogwoods have white pitch in the center). Feel free to continue the conversation through email (ahaines@nativeplanttrust.org). Best wishes. (Monday, 9 June 2025)
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