Question: Hello, I just moved to Freeport, ME near the coast. Our landscape is wooded and has some wet areas. There …
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Hello, I just moved to Freeport, ME near the coast. Our landscape is wooded and has some wet areas. There is a variety of moss and ferns. I am trying to identify many of the woodland plants on our property. I have taken several photos. The first is a photo of a plant that is everywhere in the forest and along the roadside. I'm not sure if it is a seedling but it has not seemed to change over the last month. The color is now starting to yellow on some of the plants.
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Dear orocketw, the plant in your images is Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla), a native species of the Apiaceae (celery family) and a common understory component of Maine forests.
