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  Hello again, I sent 1 photo a few days ago. I just found the second one. I am hoping it will help with ID. It was on a swamp edge. Thank you! Sue L-B

  
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  Euphrasia on an island near Grand Manan, New Brunswick. The bracts are ascending, but the teeth are not. Is this Euphrasia nemorosa, based on bract teeth not ascending, although the bracts themselves are ascending? I did not collect the plant, and do not know if the bract bases are cuneate or rounded.

  
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  Hello and happy holidays! Is this Glycerin acutiflora - Sharp-scaled Manna Grass? Thank you, Sue L-B

  
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  May I know the name of this plant, please?

  
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  Please identify

  
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  Hello, I need help ID'ing this Willow please! I've been working on this one a long time. How delighted I am to have found you! Thank you!

  
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  I would appreciate your help with identification of this grass. You can readily see pretty purple seed pods if you enlarge the photo. Much thanks, Sue L-B

  
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  Hello, Thank you for your time. I have figured out not to ask for help with trees! Is this plant Atriplex acadiensiss - Maritime Orache? Found on the beach. Sue L-B

  
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  Hello, I live in SE Michigan and these two types of horse tail have invaded my yard. The more I try to eradicate the more they spread. Please help me. They have encroached my vegetable garden so I would rather not use harsh chemicals. The bamboo looking one are only in the ditch so far so they are not as troublesome. The feathery ones spread faster and they are all over.

  
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  Hi- I found this plant (heavily browsed) growing on a hilltop in Mohawk Trail State Forest in Mass. Flowers were around 3/4" inch in diameter and the plants were around a foot tall, although height may be due to browsing. Please id if possible, thanks!

  
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  Is this a plant detritus that was observed under a microscope?

  
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  This was growing in the yard. I have no idea what it is. It has thorns on the stem and on it leaves. Located in Cottage Grove, Oregon.

  
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  Hello! I was wondering if you could identify this plant? Thank you!

  
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  Hello there, After looking at all the true grasses in Massachusetts I've come up with an unlikely match. this grass was found at the edge of a swamp. I am hoping you can help! I have matched my photo with Poa secunda - Curley Blue Grass. What do you think? Thank you for your help! Susan L-B

  
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  Hello again, Is this an Annual or Perennial Rye Grass on the left? Thank you very much! Sue L-B

  
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  The last two pictures of ferns on the Simple Key page have invaded my yard and nothing I do has helped. I even tried to burn out the last picture. I have been told they are both called horse tail. The feathery ones in the first picture have now spread to my strawberry patch. Please help me eradicate them, preferably without chemicals. I live in SE Michigan. Thank you

  
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  Could you please identify the plant? I bought it from a nursery and they could not name it. All it says is "Home foliage" Would like to know what kind of a plant this is and type of care needed. Thanks, SK

  
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  Hello! new here! I have a Norwegian Red cone spruce that I have put into a bonsai pot late fall/early winter here in Montana, though it has been indoors to prevent temperature shock (It was shipped to me from California) I recently noticed a very dark brown color creeping through the needles from the tips of most of the branches and wanted to see if you thought it was repotting shock... or something more worrisome. Thanks for your time!

  
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  Identity of this plant

  
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  Hi I have this plant infesting my lawn can you advise what it is and how to eliminate it please

  
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  What type of plants have a naturally high nitrogen/phosphorus nutrient intake? Plants that absorb nitrogen and phosphorus rapidly, either in the form of ammonia, phosphates, etc. I'm looking for plant species capable of rapidly absorbing nutrients for a research project. Thanks!

  
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  Hi I am doing a project in my Environmental Science class on creating a Wetland Field Guide. This is one of many plants I am having trouble identifying. I found it in Danvers, Massachusetts. We took photographs of these plants around a month ago if not a couple weeks ago. I would greatly appreciate it if this plant could be identified, along with if any botanist could help me identify more of them for this project due soon. All of my plants were found near or at a wetland. Sincerely, Dustin

  
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  Found in northeast Nebraska on a prairie

  
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  Found in northeast Nebraska on a prairie

  
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  Found in northeast Nebraska on a prairie

  
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  Found in northeast Nebraska on a prairie

  
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  Found in northeast Nebraska on a prairie

  
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  Found in northeast Nebraska on a prairie

  
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  Putnam County NY wooded area. Plant is about 5 foot tall. Leaves still green in late November. Note white fruit. Thank you.

  
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  I am looking for seed of different Suaeda spp. Where can I get them?

  
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  Please help me identify these two ferns. Photos were taken in Litchfield County, CT in October, 2017.

  
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  Hello, I have this amazing houseplant on my porch and cant seem to find it ANYWHERE! I have even asked several staff members at local nurseries and nothing! Only answer I heard that comes a little close is that its related to an elk or staghorn fern. Help! :-) Should I be growing it in something else? Thanks,

  
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  I'm interested in developing some "living pathways" through my small garden. I've been reading about "stepable" plants, such as creeping thyme and roman chamomile, and am inspired by the work of Lionel Smith on grass-free lawns in the U.K. (http://www.grassfreelawns.co.uk/). Do you know of any resources (people I could talk to, or online) that might steer me towards some lists of native creeping (clonal) forbes that might be suitable for such a project? Thank you!

  
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  What is this? 15' shrub (tree?) in woodland, 35 Baptist Rd, Canterbury NH. Don't know if this is full grown. No larger specimen in the immediate area. No evidence of berries or spent flowers. TINY clusters of white buds(?) found on some stems. Hard to determine if one main trunk as many trunks are growing among maples, oaks, etc. Have lived in New England 81 years and don't remember ever seeing this plant. Leaves are similar to azalea or holly in texture.

  
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  I recently collected some seeds and decided to plant them, I just need help identifying what kind of herb has sprout!

  
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  I know the family is Chenopodiaceae, but what is the genus and species of this plant?

  
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  I have this sago palm that has bloomed this weird-looking Bloom this year. It's approximately 15 years old. I was wondering if you knew what it was? I live in the San Joaquin Valley in California.

  
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  Hi, I live in Los Angeles area and my question is about Japanese hedges that I have grown for past 20 years. Since last year, some plants stopped branching off. Stems got naked and eventually whole plant died and i ended up replacing several of them. I dug up around the roots and no abnormal signs that I could see. Attached pictures show this condition happening on another side opposite to where I lost several plants. Anything I can do save them please? Thank you in advance!

  
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  I have come upon some discrepancies regarding the naming and identification of Wild Lettuce. In Wikipedia, it is referred to as Lactuca virosa and distinguished from Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola). Your description of the pharmacological effects of L. serriola seem to match those of L. virosa. Your description of L. sativa would seem to match more closely what Wikipedia is referring to as L. virosa. Can you clear this up, especially given the interest in this plant for pharmacology?

  
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  Hi found this plant growing don’t recall growing it in my conservatory green house in hull East Yorkshire can u email me as need to know what the green balls are that are there after petals fell off tia

  
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  I’ve got this plant but I don’t know it’s name. I need to know so i can take good care of the plant.

  
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  Found near Newton by the Skating rink. This plant with yellow flowers is small.

  
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  Found in Cambridge, MA flowered in September.

  
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  Found in Lincoln, MA. Very small soft pink/purple flowers.

  
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  Found by Charles River, Boston side

  
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  Found in Cambridge

  
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  Found by Charles River, Boston side

  
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  Found in Cambridge, MA

  
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  Found in Cape Cod (Eastham)

  
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  Found by Charles River, Boston side. Mixed colorful (bubble gum colors) fruit in September.

  
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  Found along Charles River. It does not seem to have flowers (I have been observing and looking for awhile).

  
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  Found in Lincoln and in Cambridge. Flowered in early September.

  
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  Found in Cambridge, MA. This plant has flower flowers earlier in the summer.

  
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  Found in Porter Square, Cambridge. This grass is small.

  
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  Found in Plymouth, MA, sandy soil. This plant has very small blue flowers.

  
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  Found in Cambridge, MA

  
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  Hi, I am trying to identify this shrub or tree with serrated dull green oval leaves. It is growing in sandy soil in Scarborough, Maine. Could it be ninebark? Thank you!!

  
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  This plant (weed?) came up a few days ago, and I have no idea what it is. I have gone through hours of searching on botany websites, but cannot find it. Can you please help with identification? It is in Massachusetts, on my front lawn on the edge of our foundation plantings.

  
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  Hello there, I would like to confirm or not... Is this Common Boneset - Eupatorium perfoliatum? In my research I noted that the leaves are uniformly triangular. These leaves aren't. What do you think. Thank you so much. I am very glad to have found you!

  
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  I'm going to try again with more details with the mystery plant you answered on 6/11/17. Several plants were close together, but not in a tight clump. I couldn't find anything that seemed to be a match among the Solidagos. but it did look rather similar to Euthamia graminifolia, except the leaves on this plant had widely spaced teeth. Perhaps the details on the seeds will help.

  
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  I'm hoping there is enough detail in these pictures to identify which species of Goldenrod this is on the Grounds of Joppa Flats Education Center, Plum Island Turnpike, Newburyport, MA.

  
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  Is this an albiflora specimen of Oldfield Toadflax. I have seen many many specimens purple Toadflax plants but never a white one! Found on the coast of Salem, Ma. Thank you!

  
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  Hi, these Vaccinium spp. were found in open forest in northwest Somerset county, ME (lower elevation, well drained). One blueberry plant is abundant, has light blue berries with a distinct bloom. the leaves are lighter green with finely serrated leaves. The buds are bright red (pic without the berry). The less common blueberry has a glossy dark blue fruit with darker green leaves and green/red buds.

  
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  It is used for stopping the bleeding,it is a creeper plant,normally found in bushes

  
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  Hello! I thought this plant was a hibiscus but it turns out I am wrong. Are you able to identify it from this picture? Thank you

  
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  Hi! The beautiful red fall color of this plant caught my eye. It is growing in pine duff. Are you able to identify it from the image?

  
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  It does not look like common winter berry that grows near wetlands. Is this smooth winterberry? Located in a woodland with standing water earlier in the year. Leaves are thin, almost papery, and smooth.

  
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  Does Betula lenta always have a wintergreen smell? We were identifying woody species in a forest with lots of B. lenta, but came across many smaller individuals(often with multiple stems of 1-2 cm DBH each) that have characters spot on for B. lenta, but without the smell. Could they be B. alleghaniensis? (Didn't see any large B. alleghaniensis.) The bark is too young to use that for information. I was also thinking that perhaps the smell is less prominent this late in the year? (Oct 18) Thanks!

  
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  Hi, I asked about the two similar asters: one white, one lavender. Here are a couple more pictures. The lavender one has basal foliage, as you'll see, but the white one doesn't seem to have any. (It's surrounded by miscellaneous leaves of dandelions, etc. Wish the pictures were better.) Thanks!

  
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  Hey Guys, Is there a way to induce a plant to create flowers sooner than it natural would if left to grow on its own? For plants that just flower, and plants which flower to create fruit. Also, which nutrients and substances does the plant provide to the flower-fruit while it grows? And, this may sound strange, can these be replicated, like if a flower falls off can it be 'fed' these nutrients to get it to grow the fruit still when separated from the plant? Thanks, was curious. Scott

  
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  I photographed what I thought was a hawkweed flower, but have come a crossed a reference that identifies the flower as "fall dandelion." The basal leaves do not appear to be scalloped. It was growing in a crack of asphalt bordering a creek. Thank you in advance. CY

  
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  I have pulled up small woody plants with blackish or bluish green leaves that planted themselves in pine duff. Are you able to identify the plant from the photographs?

  
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  Hi, I have found somewoody seedlings on my property with leaf color that is glaucous black green (see photos). Are you able to identify this from the photos? The habitat is a small open area of pine duff.

  
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  I've been running into a type of flowering shrub often found on the sides of streets and along the highway. It grows with dense tall shoots I estimate 8' tall that form a low canopy. I've noticed variations on the plant with it's leaf form, flower and also as low ground cover. Hopefully a trained eye will be able to clear this mystery for me.

  
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  I'm trying to find the type of ivy this is. It grows all along walls on our campus at the University of Minnesota. It has red stems and blue berries that grow on it. The bigger leaves have about 3 points (I don't know what the points are called). Please help me identify the type of ivy this is.

  
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  This popped up a few weeks ago. We've been told it's a hickory tree. We do have some shag bark hickories on the opposite side of our house. If it is a hickory, we are going to transplant it. Thanks for your help. It seems to be growing off a big tap root.

  
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  Found this on the cliff side overlooking the Bay of Fundy at Cape Forchu...Yarmouth Co. Nova Scotia...Oct.4/17

  
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  Helianthus along the bank of a small stream in WIlliston VT 9/19/17

  
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  Hi! Is branching on Lysimachia quadrifolia due to genetic variability? The typical Lysimachia quadrifolia form (same place, same day) is posted in the right.

  
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  I am sorry that I am not in the New England area but the Midwest. I just want to ask the Botanist what this structure is that my Magnolia tree has sprouted. In May this tree will flower white flowers, before the leaves. Then it may bloom a second time. This structure is red, and has a cover over it, like a bract. Then it exposes perhaps a pod. Are there seeds inside? Why do the seeds erupt without flowers?

  
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  This sensitive fern on the left has an interesting spoked form. It's neighbor has a typical form. Might this be the result an environmental mutation?

  
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  Hey I am having difficulty identifying this plant! It was found along the College of the Atlantic parking lot and road. The habitar was very disturbed and fairly dry, trees were cut in the area. It ranged from a few inches across to almost a foot in diameter. Was not flowering.

  
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  This plant was found in between a parking lot and road near College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, ME. I have used the simple and full key and have had no luck. The area it was in was a cut forest that was fairly dry.

  
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  Hi, This small tree is growing along side white pine, oak and maple. The tree is appox. 15' tall and the crown spread appox. 10' wide. Hope you can identify it. Thank You

  
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  What do you suppose these two "asters" are? They're similar in size: one white, one lavender. The leaves are more narrow on the white one. The leaves on the lavender one are wider and denser. I found these in Pawling, NY, Dutchess County - just over the border from Sherman, Connecticut. They're growing in more or less open areas, almost side by side.

  
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  I am confused by a posted sighting of White Snakeroot: "Sighting: Ageratina altissima at 42.2875, -71.82444 by Levin1 on October 16 2016" In Newcomb's wildflower guide p.436, White Snakeroot is called Eupatorium rugosum. Is this a different plant or has the name been changed? Thank You. Joan

  
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  I photographed this plant in Millers Falls Massachusetts at my sons farm. The land it is located on is conservation protected. Is this a climbing dayflower (commelina diffusa)?

  
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  Plant is located on rt 122 in Pelham Mass on the side of the road in a lot of growth. There were a large number of these plants and I am trying to figure out what they are and if they are edible.

  
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  Photos show something that looks like quercus muenlenbergii to me but I gather that is rare so may not be likely. Found 4 individuals on a wooded path between the highway and an office parking lot in Burlington, MA. The tallest is about 20', trunk shown in photo. Also saw aphids on the underside of one leaf as shown which I cannot remember seeing on oak before. The area also has white oak, white pine, viburnum acerifolium, sassafrass, and juniper.

  
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  What is this plant's name? Short, occurs in groups, shady forest, needle like leaves. Looked all over internet but cant find picture to identify it. Location found in New Hampshire.

  
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  First time I've ever seen this curious yellow fruit here on the river bank. The plant must have been quite tall when in flower and fully grown, but is now laying down amongst the other growth around it. The Ulverton River (Southern Quebec, Canada) floods abundantly in the spring and often brings new plants to our land, including things I'd rather not see! Thanks for your help in letting me know if this is rare for our latitude? Oh and where it could have come from...

  
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  I saw this plant in a county park in upstate New York. Though it looks a bit like Pachysandra, I don't think it is. It had a distinctly succulent-y look to it, thick stems and a juicy look to it. Thank you!

  
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  I think this is an aster, but wasn't able to key it out. Found along dirt road in Sandwich, MA. Pitch Pine-Oak Forest and powerline scrub nearby. Found Oct 5, 2017

  
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  Hi, I'm trying to ID a small tree. It's 12-15' tall and 6-8' wide, growing on the edge of a dry field with maples, oaks and white pine. Location: southern NH. Thank You

  
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  I found this mint in Rough Meadows Preserve, Rowley, along a trail close to the salt marsh. I'm guessing it's one of the Water Horehounds, perhaps virginicus?

  
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  Any suggestions of what to grow under a mature Black Walnut tree that won't make collecting the fallen fruit impossible? I've found dozen of lists online of "jungalone tolerant" plants, but many of the suggestions don't make sense to me - it doesn't seem like a good idea to plant a sugar maple under the canopy of another tree, tolerant or not! Right now there's a patch of black raspberry and some rhubarb; the remainder is dusty wasteland speckled with the remnants of lawn grass. Sudbury, MA.

  
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  I was visiting a small slat marsh preserve across Route 1A from Rye Harbor, NH yesterday, Oct 14, and there were many of these milkweed-looking plants. I am used to (I guess) Common Milkweed and these did not have the same pods I am used to seeing... Do you think this is a milkweed or something else? Thank you very much!

  
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  found at shirui hills, ukhrul manipur, india

  
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  Here is a plant I feel I know well, yet I don't know what to call it. In Wikipedia, it is referred to as Northern Bayberry, Myrica pensylvanica, and Morella pensylvanica. The MA costal plant ID Guide calls it Myrica pensylvanica, and it seems to be listed in Go Botany as Small Bayberry, Morella carolinensis. Moreover, the distribution map in your website shows a much more southern distribution than does the map in Wikipedia. Can you make sense of this confusion?

  
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  Greetings, This plant was plucked from the roadside of Route 56 in Leicester, MA. It stood about a third of a meter in height. I know the two pictures are not ideal, but the specimen is currently being pressed. Any ideas? Many thanks, as ever. --Carl

  
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  I saw this tree in Shelton, CT, at 41.337836,-73.123555. I think it's a mockernut hickory, but I see no teeth on the leaflets, and the undersides of the leaves do not seem hairy to me, although I see some hairs on the leaf stems. The bark is not flaky. The nuts are close to round.

  
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  Growing along small stream Williston VT 9/19/17

  
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  Helianthus divaricatus? Along small stream Williston VT 9/17/17. Thank you.

  
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  Hello, When we touch a plant, do some of the living cells from the plant get on or stick to our skin? If the living plant cells do get on our skin, do the cells stay functioning in any way while on our skin? Thank you very much in advance,

  
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  Can you help identify trailing composite from cultivated bed outside Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary's visitor center? Don't think it's Packera.... Thanks, Connie Parks

  
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  Hi the plants in the picture are in Waltham MA. We have a stream in our backyard And the plant is growing in mostly shade- not sure if this info will prove more insight. Thanks!

  
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  Hi, just wondering which rue this is. I haven't seen it bloom yet. I'd like to know if it's native to NE and NY. Thank you! I got it at a plant swap in NY.

  
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  please tell me what do you call this??I found it near connecticut riverin Wilder Vermont...thanks

  
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  First time this one has been seen. Within 50 feet of Cobbet's Pond in Windham, NH. I have not enhanced the image at all. Love to know what it is. Lots of mushrooms popping up within the last week, I'm guessing this is a fungi of some sort.

  
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  I grabbed a sample of Bidens from a narrow alluvial flat, just upstream from the Florida Rd Bridge over the Assebett in Maynard. It appears have the characteristics B. eatonii, but the non-estuarine habitat seems wrong. It's tucked in at the bottom of the Pontederia image. Is my ID likely?

  
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  Hi I live in Rhode Island and found this plant in my yard, trying to find out what it is. Thank you

  
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  I live in Rhode Island and found this growing in my garden do you know what it is? Thank you

  
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  Hi, I live in southern Maine and I have a bunch of this plant in my back yard, someone said it could possibly be poison sumac, if that’s the case obviously I need to take special precautions before removing it, any help identifying it would be helpful

  
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  I wonder if this plant is the red berried elder. It started growing years ago, under a bird feeder and right next to the house. It had little white flowers and red berries at one point, but I had to cut it back since the wood was rotting on the house. I was thinking of moving it, but if I have IDed it correctly, one article said it was "short lived." is this a red berried elder, and what do you know about this plants longevity? Thanks.

  
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  I bought this plant at the Northampton plant sale about four years ago. It was listed as a Japanese Clethra. It is a shrub with two main branches and many side branches, and is now about six feet high. It has not flowered. I was wondering if it was mislabeled and is a native plant. It does not get a lot of sun but it does grow every year. Thanks.

  
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  I believe I've narrowed this down to a Salix discolor / pussy willow. Can you confirm? It was found near Yellowstone in lodgepole pines and a quaken aspen woodland environment.

  
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  Fount this plant on 9/9/17 at Joppa Flats Education Center in Newburyport. The small flowers reminded me of beggar-ticks, but then the plant form was quite different.

  
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  This vine keeps showing up in my yard everywhere any idea what it is? I live in Rhode Island thanks

  
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  Hello, I found a plant on a traprock outcrop in New Britain, CT at the edge of the tree canopy (partial shade). It looks very similar to holy basil in my garden (Ocimum tenuiflorum) but is not near any garden or farm. Please identify thanks

  
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  This isa wild flower I found near Connecticut river in Wilder Vermont.What s it?thank you

  
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  Hi,this was found in Vt. Nesr Connecticut river..what is it?thank you

  
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  No flower, just leaves. Located in a terrestrial setting in Massachusetts. I think it's a false spiraea, but I'm not sure. I would appreciate any help you can provide. Thank you Emma

  
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  Hello! I found this strange-looking vine growing on the Joppa Flats grounds in Newburyport in September. Among the lianas, I couldn't find anything with seeds like it. The seeds look very like elm seeds.

  
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  Can't find this plant in your listings. It may not be there since it is located in Idaho near Yellowstone. Woodland area. Do you know what it is? Picture taken in August. Thank you. Brice

  
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  Is this aletris farinosa? It doesn't really have a basal rosette and it seems smaller than as described in online guides. Picture from Limerick, Maine.

  
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  Found in Warm Broad-leaved forest, please help me to get the scientific name of this plant.

  
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  I don't have a question about a particular plant, but I wanted to ask a botanist about something that's been making me curious. If a plant, either it's stem or leaves, or petals, had been subject to a snake's venom, how would it react? Would there be discoloration or would it begin to die? I tried to look it up online, but I couldn't find anything.

  
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  Hi,I have more to asked you but I wasn't sure if all the photos went thru when I uploaded them.I cannot see them here but it says "uploading" though.anyway,what kind if plant is this?please tell.me.Thank you.

  
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  This was found in maawanaka conservation down in Wilder Vt..Please tell me what kind of plant it us..thank you

  
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  This plants didnt grow tall but it has like fruit in it..what is it? find them in kilowatt park near connecticut river..thanks!

  
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  I found them near connecticut river in Wilder Vt. What is.it?thanks

  
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  Central MA. This plant showed up suddenly and in such massive numbers I think the seeds may have come in with last year's hay which ends up as garden mulch. Highly invasive, sun to partial shade, ~2 feet high. Flowering reminds me of nettles, but doesn't seem to match overall description. Thanks for your help!

  
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  Central MA. This plant showed up suddenly and in such massive numbers I think the seeds may have come in with last year's hay which ends up as garden mulch. Highly invasive, sun to partial shade, ~2 feet high. Flowering reminds me of nettles, but doesn't seem to match overall description. Thanks for your help!

  
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  ..I found them in Wilder Vt near Connecticut river..what is it?thank you.

  
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  What do you call this.one?they are on the road in Wilder Vt..thanks

  
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  What kind if f plant is this? It was located near kilowatt trail in Wilder Veemont.Thanks

  
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  Hi,this was all over kilowatt park in Wilder Vt.What are thety ?thanks

  
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  Hi,I found this near Connecticut River when I was walking to tthe kilowatt trail..what are they?Thanks!

  
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  Hi,I have more to asked you but I wasn't sure if all the photos went thru when I uploaded them.I cannot see them here but it says "uploading" though.anyway,what kind if plant is this?please tell.me.Thank you.

  
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  This large cluster is in the Native plant garden in Milton Mass' Trailside museum. We can't identify it. The seed pods resemble Amsonia, but that is the only similarity. The foliage is not alternate. The cluster is around 3 feet tall.

  
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  Good evening. I had submitted an inquiry yesterday but failed indicate the location. I live in Malden, just north of Boston. One weed that has perplexed me is a heart shaped broad-leafed weed with tuber-like roots. It resembles garlic mustard, but lacks the classic shape and smell. The attached image is of the root sytem of this weed. What is it?

  
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  Hi, I found these growing in my backyard and would like to know what they are. The first picture- the leaves look similar to some mountain laurel we have growing nearby but I'm not sure.

  
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  I'm stumped. This is all over the place now, going to seed in white, fluffy puffs. 6" to 7' tall. No petals that I can see. Smooth stems. It's not wild lettuce. What do you think? Thanks, Julia

  
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  Hi, a friend took this picture in a field in Western Mass., Would love an ID. Thanks!

  
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  I don't know if this is a gall or a plant I don't recognize. It was photographed in the Helderburg Escarpment, NY Thank You,

  
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  These plants were regenerating in a moist forest clearing (small clearcut) in Somerset County in late June. Can you help me to ID?

  
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  I'm having a hard time identifying this plant, there appears to be just this one in a small open field. It's growing with goldenrod,asters, raspberries etc. Thank you Dolly

  
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  I took more photos of the potential Euphorbia nutans. It is upright, standing close to 10" tall. Thank You,

  
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  This plant was found in a dry sandy area in Woodlawn Preserve, NY. I suspect that it is Jimsonweed. Thank You

  
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  Hi,can you please tell me the name of this tree and the species ...its grows in our backyard...thanks!

  
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  Please help me identify the species of this ..this grows in our backyard and its a talk tree...thank you

  
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  Hello. I found this plant regenerating in a moist forest opening in Somerset County, Maine. I am guessing it is in the aster family. Can you help with ID?

  
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  Hi, I found this plant in a field growing with goldenrod,asters and raspberries. I've looked through a number of wildflower books but cannot ID it. Hope you can help, Thank You

  
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  Please help.me identify the common species name of this plant.I include a picture of the leaves..thank you

  
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  Hi,what do you call this type if maple tree leaf????please let me know.Thank you.

  
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  Hello, I found these in a swampy area in Wayland, MA. The area is within a kettle hole that fill and empties seasonally. Thanks for your help identifying.

  
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  I enlarged the Sandmat that I sent you. I'm not sure that you can see the detail you need. Thanks

  
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  I found this plant in the same habitat as my earlier submission regarding the Polypodium. Not sure if it is considered an herbaceous plant or a small shrub. It looked like Red Elderberry and also somewhat akin to Red Baneberry. Not sure if the leaves are considered once or twice compound. Interesting variation of leaf shape!

  
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  Arthur, I'm trying to ID an orchid; I think it's either Spiranthes cernua or ochroleuca. The labellum bends downward and is slightly yellow, but I don't know if it's enough to be S. ochroleuca. I took a photo with Ted Elliman's book (ruler), thinking I'd measure the gap between the lateral & upper sepals, but I'm afraid I don't have a clue what to measure. Dedham MA; habitat is a bit unusual, sandy area adjacent to boggy soil - arid wetlands? At least 2 leaves on stem, no basal leaves present.

  
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  This flower was found near a stream in Saratoga County NY. Thank You,

  
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  This small plant was found in a very dry sandy area of Woodlawn Preserve. I'm guessing it's a Euphorbia? Thank You,

  
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  By the Sonesta hotel in Cambridge

  
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  Can you help with identify this plant please, found in the woods of Biddeford Maine. It looked like fur from away, felt course.

  
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  There are common in my area, an urban area and people think they are weeds and pull them out in the garden. Cambridge, MA

  
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  Hello. Everything about this plant looks like Wild Carrot, but in minature: foot high, diameter of inflorescence size of a quarter or less, nothing like any similar plants in Peterson. The Daucus pusillus (American Wild Carrot) is a western, possibly southern plant. Now coming north? Fully formed. Daucus carota is in the same area, but nothing like this fully-formed small one. On the edge of a paved parking lot in woodland area, on a ridge, not swampy. Ossining, NY. Thanks.

  
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  This is found in my back yard. I have about 20 pictures/questions. Can I send it to you a different way so I can upload more than just one picture at a time? I have been looking for wild plants in the urban area near the road and on the edges of things--where they will be pulled or mowed over. I collected all summer long and are using them for an exhibition that will open on 9/22. Would love to know what they are, fast. Thank you thank you!!

  
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  This aster was found near a pond in Woodlawn Preserve, NY Thank You,

  
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  This mostly dead flower was found in a dry sandy area in Woodlawn Preserve NY Thank You,

  
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  I am seeking a native sedge to help stabilize a hillside after a tornado in Concord MA in August 2016. The south facing kame hillside was formerly shady but is now partially sunny and dry. The hillside includes 1840-50s garden terraces sculpted by Bronson Alcott. I am imagining a soft carpet of woodland sedge to accentuate the terraces which are now vulnerable to erosion due to loss of tree cover. Can you recommend a species and seed source?

  
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  I found this polypody around Ausable Chasm near the western shore of Lake Champlain. Your guide only mentions 2 similar species, but the sign labels it as Polypodium vulgare. I thought this might be an older synonym for one of those species, though this is not mentioned in your guide. I thought if the managers of the site are incorrect in their signage, they should be notified. Can you clarify? BTW, Wikipedia describes the species P. vulgare, so they might need to be corrected as well.

  
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  A grove of about 30 small trees on Lexington's Lower Vinebrook path. No fruits or flowers seen but it seems sort of like the Asimina Triloba I got at NEWFS a few weeks ago.

  
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  Hi, I'm just trying to identify this moss? Seen on an old woodland road near Lake George NY... It was not growing on the birch bark, that was my plate. Growing on clay soil. thank you!

  
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  Thank you for answering my question about the Fumaria-looking species in Waltham! I will watch for flowers. Is it also possible that it is Capnoides sempervirens? This was suggested to me because it is a sunny, recently disturbed site. Thank you!

  
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  I found this plant in Penny Lake Preserve and was wondering if you could identify it for me. Some of the leaves were a remarkable blue color and I'm uncertain whether it was like the red leaves on a poinsettia, of whether the leaves were turning their autumn colors. (see attached image) 43.858972, -69.628826

  
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  This shrub was found in a marshy area of the Hudson River in South Glens Falls NY Thank You,

  
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  This spent plant was found near a pond in the Adirondacks. I could not find another bloom in better condition, I'm sorry. Thank You

  
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  This shrub? tree? popped up in an area where we planted lilacs. It is currently about 12-15inches tall. Can you help identify it? Many thanks!

  
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  I understand there are many kinds of coleus plants. However, I can not find the name of the coleus in my attachment. Would you be kind enough to identify the coleus in the attachment?

  
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  One more image...sorry...

  
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  Sorry, here are the images.

  
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  Is the attached photograph one of Aureolaria pedicularia? I took this photograph yesterday on Rattlesnake Island in Lake Winnipesaukee. Thank you.

  
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  Can you tell me what type of plant, or the name of this plant? My daughter saw it in Cincinnati and was wondering what it is? Thanks so much.

  
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  Just a simple gardening question: can two plants grown from the same fruit cross pollinate each other? For example: If I have two tomatillo vines that are flowering, which were grown from seeds originally from the same single tomatillo fruit, can they cross pollinate? What are the limitations around cross pollination, if there are any? Thanks!!

  
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  Great website, really love what you have got going on here, Could you please identify the attached plant pictures of fruit and leaves and confirm if the species is Synsepalum dulcificum (known as Miracle fruit, miracle berry) Pictures where taken of the plant near my house in karnataka India.(not England) Please let me know if any additional pictures are required to further identify it correctly. thanks a lot in advance.

  
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  Hi, Several of these plants popped up last spring at a site in Waltham where we are building a garden. The area where it is growing was formerly a thicket of bittersweet and buckthorn that we ripped out a year and half ago. Everything else that popped up I could recognize as a garden weed of some kind, but not this one. It came up in June but has not flowered yet. Any ideas?

  
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  https://newfs.s3.amazonaws.com/upload_images/question/jeannette_0e34fdd6b938a1bb447b36c3f36a18b9.jpg I think that the following is a Northern Bugleweed (Lycopus uniflorus)? On Cape Cod, along a small road in a disturbed area, in a moist/wet area. Others disagree and say it's American Water Horehound (Lycopus americanus). Is Northern Bugleweed synonymous with Northern Water Horehound? Are they both Lycopus uniflorus?

  
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  Location: Toronto, Canada. I have attached one more picture, this is all I have.

  
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  This is an ornamental on the campus of Becker College, Worcester. I give you pictures of the leaves, flowers, and bark, all taken in the beginning of September. Thank you for your continued help. --Carl

  
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  A clump of these ferns were found in the Helderbergs of NY along a marsh trail. Thank You,

  
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  Is this the Northern Bugleweed (Lycopus uniflorus)? is it the same as the Northern Water-Horehound? Location: Cape Cod, in a disturbed moist/wet area, on the edge of a small road. I'd like to know that I'm on the right track. I recognized it as a plant in the mint family but had never seen the Bugleweed before. Thank you.

  
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  location: Toronto, Canada I need help in identifying the plant attached. It had lots of thin beans and narrow leafs, they were growing in wilderness until the construction came up on the site. The plants used to attract loads of house finch, I want to re-plant them to attract the birds. Any help to identify the plant would help a ton.

  
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  This plant was found near the shore of the Hudson River in the Adirondacks of NY Thank You

  
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  This plant is growing in my yard in Beverly MA, near a tidal river. Morning sun, afternoon shade. I have been here for four years, it has "flowered" biennially. I can't say for sure that it is "wild", since I have never seen anything like it anywhere. It is the only one in my yard, so it doesn't seem to spread on its own. I would like to identify it, and if it is rare or endangered, I would consider donating it to a qualified recipient. Thanks, Joe Mahan

  
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  I purchased this perennial in Northern NJ 10 years ago. I forgot its name. Have never seen another like it, have searched plant data bases but have not been able to identify it. Hope someone can help. Plant dies back completely every winter. New growth of about 6 stems in late spring eventually reaches 4 feet tall and wide. Blooms in late August. The flowers clusters grow only in the angle formed between stem and petiole, about 5 clusters per stem. Each deep purple flower has 4 recurved petals

  
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  This plant was found at the edge of a man made pond near Albany NY. Thank You,

  
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  This fern was found along a path in a marsh near Stillwell, NY Thank You,

  
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  I found this unusual plant or part of a plant in a sample of submerged plants from Clarks Pond, Amesbury, MA. Do you have any ideas?

  
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  This plant or weed has been taking over our backyard. Very very slowly but each year it's a bit more. I have two small children and want to make sure it's not poisonous. We live in Nebraska.

  
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  This is a flower blooming now in a meadow restoration by Muhlenberg College in Lancaster Co. Park, Lancaster, PA. There are many yellow natives in bloom there now that I have been able to identify, but I haven't been able to identify this one. Can you help?

  
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  Greetings, On the off-chance that you're not too busy, I give you this grass (Panicum?) growing in a disturbed area in Leicester, Massachusetts. The first picture shows the inflorescence pretty well, but the second picture showing the general gestalt is, unfortunately, a bit out of focus (note the second specimen to the left of the picture). I will collect and press the specimen this week. Thanks, as always, for your help. --Carl

  
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  Hi, I found this Salix on the shores of Lonesome Lake, in the White Mountains (NH). Despite your very good dichotomous key, I can't get a name on it. Thanks

  
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  What is this plant? Found on country road in Ohio.

  
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  I am wondering if you can identify this groundcover. It is growing on top of a large boulder that was inaccessible for up close observation. The This was in a very shady situation on Cape Ann Ma, no visible flowers

  
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  This was spotted in the woods of Vermont, what kind of plant is it?

  
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  I was told this plant was sea lavender years ago, but evidently sea lavender doesn't grow here in Vermont. Can you identify it for me? It has a lot of similarities to sea lavender. It will be blooming in the fall - the bloom is purple. The photo of it flowering includes asters in the background. Thanks!

  
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  Can you tell me which fern I have photographed? I took the pictures in a mixed hemlock forest beside a lake in the Adirondacks. Thank You

  
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  Please help me identify this plant from South of Barcelona, Spain.

  
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  This shrub appeared after I cleared trees for my garden about three years ago. On a rocky hill Mount Desert Island, Maine. Mature leaves are about 4" long and 2" wide.

  
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  I found this plant in a newly formed wetland at the mouth of 2 streams, 5 years after a storm washed the soil off the hillside to form the area. It is on a lake in NW CT. Our lake was studied by the state DEEP a few years back and found to have the most diverse collection of aquatic plants of any lake they studied.

  
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  This shrub was photographed in a theoretical 'native plant' garden near Albany NY. Thank You,

  
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  Found in a roadside thicket in Jackson, NH along with feral apples. sandy loam near beavered habitat. https://goo.gl/photos/a86dCLmU2avnvuiYA

  
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  I'm trying to id this plant. I used the simple plant identifier and found that it looks similar to Veratrum Viride, but not quite like the pictures. It seems to grow alone, not in bunches, and seems to grow best in sandy, rocky soil. I've also seen it by the road at my camp growing in the gravel at the side of the road. Flowers appear only at the top of the single, main stem and form little seed pods. The plant produces only this one stem with alternating leaves.

  
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  Here are some pictures I've found of a purple stemmed and hairy goldenrod-seeming plant. I would love to get all the way to species. Any ideas? Thanks!

  
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  Is this Salix bebbiana? Found Cooperstown, NY.

  
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  Hi I would love to know what plant is this it’s growing in my front yard and I never planted it

  
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  This was photographed in the Adirondacks of NY several weeks ago. Thank You,

  
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  This Lobelia was found along a rocky sand spit in the Hudson in the Adirondacks of NY. Thank You,

  
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  Recently saw Euphorbia ipecacuanhae on flickr. I've been searching but cannot find a definitive answer to: "Is this a succulent?"

  
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  I saw this plant while walking at Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge. I have not been able to ID it and there wasn't any staff available to ask. It was about 6 feet off trail growing with sarsaparilla, blue bead lily, Canada mayflower, Solomon's seal and low bush blueberry in a forested understory of mainly pines and oaks. The spathes were between one and two feet tall and the leaves were about 8 inches long (these are approximations as I didn't want to go off trail).

  
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  Creeping Bush-clover (Lespedeza repens) This is a follow up from last Sunday. This plant is over 100 miles away from me so it took awhile to get more pictures. Most stems in bloom do not have leaves. Leaves are at the base. I have 2 pictures. One shows some leaves by the flower. The other is at the base of the plant. So, is this the correct identification?

  
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  This was taken on a rocky shore of the Hudson in the Adirondacks of NY. I thought it was a Solidago, but the leaves don't really match? Thanks,

  
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  This woodland plant was found in Putnam Valley, NY. No emerging flowers or seeds at this time (mid-August). Thanks for your help. Roxi

  
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  Wondering what this is, common in NY and southern Quebec hardwood forest, looks like a tree seedling but doesn't seem to get bigger. I have not seen it bloom. Thank you!

  
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  Cook County IL Lactura Tall Lettuce update: Please see attached leaf structure pictures. Plus one image of small yellow dandeloin like flowers. You nailed it! Thanks again

  
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  This was spotted in Jamestown, RI Any help with the ID would be appreciated. Thanks!

  
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  I don't have any pictures unfortunately, but a question: does Solidago canadensis exhibit purple color along its stem? Not the whole stem, usually, but at some points is it common for S. canadensis to have purplish color? Or is this another species of Solidago?

  
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  Garden solutions blog cannot id this one, and neither can I. Cannot find in any guidebook. I've been frustrated by this plant for a few years. Very similar in many ways (not the flower) with sand spurrey, but it is not that. In two places by the side of the road in my locale, Harrisville NH, dry places. This flower blooms early and stays blooming into early Fall. Leaves are whole, not toothed and opposite. 5 petals, pistil hard to see, difficult because of how tiny it is. hard to photograph.

  
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  Hello, location: Cook County Forest Preserve Chicago IL This plant is nearly 5 feet tall, very straight up, flowered in late July as branched loose yellow cluster; flowers narrow and not very interesting and upper stem leaves are alternate pointed with margins toothed with leaf base tightly wrapped around the stem & no lobes, yet lower leaves are deeply pinnately symmetrically 5 pointed lobed and also wrapped around stem. Any idea? Thanks

  
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  I don't have a photo of the leaves of this flower, photographed in June and July in Harrisville, NH. I think it is growing among other plants so the surrounding leaves don't belong to it. But the flower has gone by and I'm not sure where the plant is in the jungle of green. What is it and what are the standing orange "petals"?

  
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  Hi: Ive had this plant for two-three years and not sure what it is or how I acquired. It was probably mixed in with several other plants I bought at year end discounts etc.at my local nursery. It is currently planted in a very shady area and has not bloomed as of yet (early August). Im not sure if it is supposed to bloom or whether it requires more sun. It is about 3 feet high which is about the height it grew to last year. (No bloom).

  
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  Found this yesterday in western CT near Cornwall Bridge on Breadloaf Mtn. Looks like Lespedeza repens (creeping bush-clover) to me but need confirmation.

  
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  Hi, there are several of this plants with spiky fruits appearing on the lawn of my house in Toronto, Ontario. They are about 4 feet tall. I wonder what it is and is it poisonous?

  
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  Does common nightshade (Solanum nigrum) have both white and purple/yellow flowers? I want to thank you all for your excellent "full" key. It doesn't keep me from consulting you, and it is a great help!

  
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  I am confused about the field marks that distinguish Silene cucubalus from Silene latifolia. I do not find the latter in my field guides, even under the name Melandrium album. The first photo shows cucubalus (?) in Brattleboro, VT; the next three, latifolia (?) in Burlington, VT. The last photo seems to be a pink variant of the previous three, growing on the grounds of Keene State College in Keene, NH.

  
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  I've been trying to identify this plant. I think its a type of nightshade but can't find a photo that matches. It has white flowers that turn purple with yellow stamens. It stands about 18" and the baffling part is the thorns throughout. Any information will be appreciated. I am located in Saginaw MI. Thanks

  
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  I'm in Southeast Connecticut, and I've stumbled upon this plant, which I've had absolutely no look of discovering what it is. It's underneath a tree, meaning that it doesn't get much sunlight, it's a terrestrial plant, it seems to be anomalous because nothing else around it resembles it, and while it's not directly next to the woods near us, it's near a particularly tree area. There are hairs along the stem (not evident from photos). Do you know what this is? Thanks in advance for answering.

  
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  I'm in Southeast Connecticut, and I've stumbled upon this plant, which I've had absolutely no look of discovering what it is. It's underneath a tree, meaning that it doesn't get much sunlight, it's a terrestrial plant, it seems to be anomalous because nothing else around it resembles it, and while it's not directly next to the woods near us, it's near a particularly tree area. There are hairs along the stem (not evident from photos). Do you know what this is? Thanks in advance for answering.

  
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  This flower appears to be Campanula punctata or spotted bellflower. It grows in my garden in Harrisville, NH. The Go Botany key shows it growing in NH but in no neighboring state. However, it appears also in Connecticut. Why would the range be discontinuous?

  
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  Growing in Wilton, NH. A penstemon? Pardon the fuzzy photo.

  
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  Township of Mamakating, NY. Uprooted from New Rochelle, NY. Gardener who introduced it to NR lot called it a Christmas Fern. I have seen similar ferns in the tropics, where they grow much longer leaves of coarser texture. They, too, reproduce by spores. This plant has done much better than in New Rochelle in this lakeside location in a hillside rock garden. I cut one spore laden leaf hoping to propagate. Instructions?

  
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  Just wondering whether this is a native or not. it sure was popular with the bees! we used to call it agrimony, but not sure if that is correct.

  
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  Found in Cooperstown, NY in a wetland area/former farm field. I believe it is Salix spp. but at hoping to get to species level. Young leaves and young stems have white hairs. Older/ more green leaves have white hairs restricted to the mid vein and have a slightly leathery feel.

  
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  This fern has us flummoxed. Can you identify it?

  
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  Here is a photo of what i believe to be Asclepias purparescens [sp?]. found on the Connecticut River near my family's land. I'm not exactly sure that it isn't A. incarnata. Please let me know. thanks!

  
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  here are some of the best shots i got of the Jessup's Milkvetch and those strange runners. they are extremely small, so it was difficult to get a good shot. now i wish i had taken the time to investigate them more carefully. i was trying to not touch the milkvetches at all.

  
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  This photo was taken on Lake Desolation, NY in the Adirondacks. I think it is a Nuphar species, but which one? Thank You

  
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  I recently sent a message about a Lilium philadelphiam in North Chatham, NH. It is on private land and I will give you the precise location, if you wish, after I obtain permission from the land owner. I also found a few locations for Goodyera pubescens in the area of Keysar Lake and North Chatham. Also, some Aralia racemosa in the back of The Basin (Cold River Campground) off route 113 in the White Mountain National Forest. Thanks

  
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  I've been exploring these ledges near my family's place on the Connecticut River and i found Jessup's Milkvetch growing on them. There are other plants around them which i'd like to id as well. The first photo is a very tiny little plant which spreads around on these long runners. I thought the runners were coming from the milkvetch, but that just doesn't make sense to me, since they form little basal rosettes. The second photo might be a Maianthemum stellatum, but doesn't look quite right.

  
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  I found what appears to be Asclepias purparescens along the Connecticut River near my family's land the other day, and just down the river - on my sister's land, i found these other milkweeds growing mostly in shade. The ones in the sunnier locations appeared to have all dead flowers. I know there are lots of crosses, so that might be what i have here. Down a little further there are lots of A. syriaca growing with the Joe-pyes.

  
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  i'm sorry to keep pestering you, but here is a salvia growing on my family's land along the connecticut river. it appears to be a Salvia of some kind, but i couldn't find this one anywhere. by the way, i answer many of the same kind of questions you get everyday, but here in California, where i now live [and have become a professional of sorts too].

  
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  Can you help identify this volunteer maple (?) found in the woody part of my Lexington, MA background? Does not seem to be one of the common maples found around here. I called the file acer spicatum based on other reference books, but your site says it is very rare in S New England and your leaf pictures are quite different.

  
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  Couldn't find this plant in any of our publications (even weeds?) has tough burrs around each berry, worked at Science Center gardens, herbs, pollinators in Norwell MA

  
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  This tiny fern we found along the Hudson in the Adirondacks in NY. Thank You,

  
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  This fern was found in a boggy area beside Lake Desolation NY. Thank You,

  
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  Trying again. Hopefully the images come through. Is this lonicera maackii? If so, any help you can give me would be appreciated. Thank you.

  
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  I took these photos in the pitcher plant area of Garden in the Woods on 7/28/2017. Can you confirm that this is Alisma subcordatum? Sorry the pics aren't better -- it was as close as I could get. If not, do you know what it might be? Is it too aggressive for a home pond? Thanks.

  
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  Your website identifies a vine growing on our field in Andover, NH as a "hedge false bindweed" (photo attached). It is identified as a NE wildflower--three types native; one type non-native. Can you ID the type? Is it invasive? I have never seen it before this year and it is spreading rapidly on our open field and climbing everything in sight. Thank you.

  
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  Thank you for your answer. Ilex mucronata makes sense. I don't see this shrub much. I do have a question though. The leaf margins on the shrub in the first photo I sent you are toothed. I found several other examples of I. mucronata on the property too, now that I know what it is. The purple petioles is a really helpful tip. However, on those shrubs the leaf margin is smooth (as shown in field guides and your website as well). See photos of others, same location. Sometimes they do have teeth?

  
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  Dear Botanist, I've tried to key this out but no luck. Any help IDing would be much appreciated! Disturbed ground, 3-4' tall, upright, axillary lateral branching - branching looks like spokes when seen from above. No flowers yet (late July). Thank you!

  
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  Hi, Is this plant Lambs Quarters? It & others like it suddenly started appearing in & around my neighborhood in Brookline MA about in mid-July. This specimen is from the curbstone area in front of our house which gets sun almost all day but no water save for the rain. It is growing in very dry soil near concrete. Thanks!

  
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  Hi, Can you please identify this large-leaved plant? It is a ground hugging plant, growing in an area that probably gets light no more than 1/3 of the day. It only gets water when it rains. It has been growing since mid-July near the foundation of our house in Brookline, MA. Thanks!

  
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  Hi, What is this flower seen on July 4 in a park in West Roxbury, MA? It was spotted in a large patch of similar plants on a sunny otherwise grassy hillside. Thanks!

  
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  I've recently moved into a home on 2 acres in Vermont and found 40-50 of this plant at the border of our yard. I am concerned that it is lonicera maackii. Can you you tell me if I am correct and if so, what is the best way to get rid of it?

  
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  I found this shrub/small tree in a moist woodland in Athens, Maine. I am stumped, although I feel I know what it is and am just having a numb spell.

  
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  Just viewed these plants in the Christian Dior Garden in Northern France. Looks like rhubarb but is more glossy and upright.

  
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  I need help in identifying this plant. The location is in the transition zone between the Hill Country and South Texas plains. It is brush country. One drop of sap from the plant can numb your tongue for several minutes. Even though the plants grow individually, they can be found in groups as seen in the first photo. I don't recall seeing any flowers or fruits on these plants.

  
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  Thank you for your response. I'm sorry I did not provide the location - I've seen this tree throughout New England. The specific location of this photo is from Rhode Island in an upland location. Thank you again. Karen

  
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  Here is a plant...growing on a slope going down to a stream, pushing up through some brush that had been piled on there. Wayland, MA. Thanks for your help.

  
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  A photo of that fern I posted a few days badk. Here you can see the bottom of the fern better. Thanks

  
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  I see this tree everywhere, so I know it is common in the region - located both terrestrial and near wetlands. Can you please confirm the name of this species? I appreciate your time.

  
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  After developing a poison ivy-like rash after gardening, and finding no poison ivy plants near where we were, I discovered this plant in our blueberry bush and surrounding area. It doesn't fit habitat; this very wet area as we have had a lot of rain in central Vermont, and the roof runoff is heavy here. Local landscaper was questioning whether this could-be poison sumac, and I'm curious of your thoughts. I have more photos that I can send you in a different correspondence if you need. Thanks!

  
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  Hello! I now suspect this little guy is actually two plants, though I initially thought it was one :). I saw it last weekend, so mid-July, hiking in a wet-ish part of eastern NH in the White Mountains. I haven't been able to figure out what the dark purple, star-shaped collection of leaves (petals?) is. Hard to see from my photo, but is has a single stalk of the same color and is roughly 5" high. Thanks for any help.

  
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  I recently found a single Lilium philadelphicum in North Chatham, NH. I am wondering about the conservation status of this plant. I believe it is rare or extirpated in some of its more southern range. I will withhold the exact location for now. Thank you

  
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  Recently, a large number of the plant attached below has appeared in my yard. I am sure it must be a somewhat common plant; but I've never seen it before and I haven't been able to id it. Do you know what it might be? I am not in New England. I am in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's growing in a very sunny spot in my urban, front yard garden.

  
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  please tell if this is poison, or not? also what is its name

  
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  Is this a dandelion? I've never seen one that grew so tall before. From Upstate NY USA. 7-24-17

  
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  This was in the same area as the fox sedge, the wood fern, and the wild cucumber. On land that slopes down to a swamp and a stream...in Wayland, MA. Thanks

  
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  I know this is a bedstraw. Wondering if it is rough bedstraw. Found towards the bottom of a slope near wetlands and a stream in Wayland. Thanks

  
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  I took these photos in upstate New York. The leaves look like a Thalictrum to me, but I don't know where else to look. Thank You,

  
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  Hi! I tried keying out this plant in a swampy area in the Amesbury Town Forest. Can you help? Chaffee Monell

  
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  These photos were taken outside of Albany NY. I believe it is a Helianthus. Thank You,

  
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  We've just started noticing this around the park in Basking Ridge NJ. We have clay soils and the area is always wet in the swamp. We suspect it is Water Hemlock but would like to have it confirmed. If it is, we need to educate the public about this plant. Will brushing up against it cause a negative reaction or just upon consumption? Thank you.

  
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  Hi, this plant is a vine like plant....growing near a stone wall close to a stream in Wayland Mass. Thanks for identifying.

  
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  Hi, this sedge was found in field...bottom of a hill heading down towards a stream in Wayland, MA. Thanks for any help you can give.

  
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  Trying again...the photos did not load.. This fern, found by a stone wall that borders wetlands and a stream in Wayland. Including photos of the front and the back. Thanks.

  
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  I came across this flower while walking in the woods behind my house (Monson, MA) and I've been unable to identify what it is. It's fairly small, maybe 4-5" height. There's an acorn near the bottom left leaf which will help with size comparison.

  
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  This square stemmed plant was found on top of a rocky outcrop overlooking Lake George NY Thank You,

  
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  Is the last photo, furthest to the right, accurate for the rosette foliage of Symphyotrichum tradescantii in the GoBotany listing? Are the rosette leaves that wide? Thanks.

  
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  I found this plant growing in my wild weed yard I never water the yard it is all natural only mow it down in summer I live Yuba City, California USA. I don't know if it is a grass, weed, or tree. The photo shows it picked but the stem was longer approximately 10.5 inches coming strait out of the ground with the beautiful kind of flower top photo was taken in late June. I just loved the way it looks. I live the Northern valley flat land my house set in an old almond orchard if that helps.

  
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  Is this Monotropa Hypopitys? I've never seen it before in the Estabrook Woods, concord, MA. I thought it was Indian Pipe, but the color was wrong. It was a pale buttery yellow. Thanks.

  
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  This plant is found in open areas; dryer sandier towns of northern Connecticut. It seems to need much sunshine. Its odd color makes it different than others that also have tiny leaves and creep along the ground. Most landscapers consider it a weed; difficult to remove, although a vinegar and soap spray tends to wither the greens. It tends to grow along the ground putting down new roots as it moves along. We cannot identify it; any ideas?

  
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  Greetings. I am going to ask another question about a plant for which I have only one picture taken a decade ago. I want to call it Polymnia canadensis, but, as this has not been recorded from Massachusetts, I am somewhat reluctant. This photo was taken at the end of August somewhere in Paxton, Massachusetts. (I was not as good ten years about recording exact localities. Yours truly, --Carl

  
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  This was found along a stream in upstate New York. Thank You,

  
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  This bush is growing right outside of the house I just purchased in Quincy, MA. I don't know if it's native to New England. I am having a hard time identifying it. Thanks!

  
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  Haven't found this yet to id?

  
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  This picture was taken near Diane's bath in North Conway NH.

  
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  This was spotted near the Saco river in North Conway NH.

  
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  I found these two beauties from my wild yard, northern MA. Who are they?

  
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  Can't find this in my books...I think it was near a pond, but in dry area. Couldn't see leaves.

  
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  A plant can live without - one of these 1-root 2-. Shoot 3 - fruit

  
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  Hi, I just signed up for your site and then noticed that you can help identify wild New England plants. I am looking for help identifying a shrub that is growing outside of a house I just purchased in Massachusetts. Is this the right site, or is there someone else I should reach out to for help identifying a plant that may not be native to the area. Thanks! Tim

  
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  I found the plant along the sea shore in Kennebunk Maine. It appears to be Black Mustard (Brassica nigra) but the database says it is rare so I am probably mistaken. Your thoughts appreciated.

  
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  There are no flowers and only lateral buds on this plant I found in a wetland area in NY (but very close to Vt. Instinct says genus Swida but I was wondering if without flowers, fruit, or buds (I think herbivory took away the good ones) we could get to species? Thanks!

  
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  I could not locate this flower in my Wildflowers of ME, NH, VT book - It is growing along the foundation of my house (1 plant). It is white and about 18" tall - pic to follow

  
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  On a walk in Leominster State Forest today I photographed (but very poorly) a plant/flower I have never seen before. It looked like a corralbells growing on a sarsparilla. The flowers were pink fading to white, on long arching stems. Couldn't find anything in the keys on this site. Anther sighting by the water was what looked like some sort of Kusa dogwood, but not what I have in my yard. Better photo attached as well.

  
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  It appears the uploading is having a problem - I will send the photo to ahaines[at]newwenglandwild.org , I could not locate this flower in my Wildflowers of ME, NH, VT book - It is growing along the foundation of my house (1 plant). It is white and about 18" tall - pic to follow.

  
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  This is a new weed that has grown up along the edges of our dirt road in the last couple of years. I am in Poland Spring, Maine. It's a vine with long tendrils and is spreading extremely fast. I wondered if it was Mile-a-Minute but the leaf shape is not right. I certainly hope it is not that, but suspect this is a non-native invasive that came in with some road fill. Sigh.

  
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  I don't have a plant identification question,but you might be able to answer this one. I was eating cherries a while ago and I found a double cherry. This was two cherries on one stem. Each contained one seed,the seeds looked normal. What made the cherry grow double like this? I have included a picture of the double cherry beside a normal one. Thank you

  
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  Hi -- Last week I attended the "fern walk" at Weeks State Park in Lancaster NH. Elizabeth Farnsworth, the tour leader, showed us Goldie's Fern. I found a similar fern in an area of rich mesic forest on our land where we have previously identified maidenhair fern, blue cohash and squirrel corn. Some images of the fern are uploaded below. Can you advise whether this is Goldie's Fern? Thanks in advance for your help! Best, Sandy

  
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  This mountain knapweed (that is what I believe it is) has multiplied throughout my gardens in Amherst, MA. I tried to upload the picture on the post a sighting section but the uploading just goes round and round. Is there another way I may send you this picture? Thanks you.

  
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  Hello! I found this plant in Southeastern Connecticut, in a beech-oak forest. The plant was approximately 4 inches in height. The area was just below a rock outcropping at the base of a slope. There were no other individuals in the area. My only guess would be young Taxus canadensis. Thanks the help.

  
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  The plant in question for your second photo below is Itea virginica and it is a native species.

  
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  I sent you pictures a few days ago of a plant I now think is an invasive garden plant, Spiraea japonica, Japanese spirea, which you have in your key, but which I didn't see because I didn't think to check the plants listed under "Woody Plants." I should always check "Woody Plants," even if the plant doesn't seem at all woody to me.

  
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  Hello, I cannot seem to identify this plant. It was found growing along the upper portions of a stream bank near Boston. The leaves are shiny and have pink/reddish veins. Unfortunately I only took the one picture but hope it's enough. Thank you very much for any help you can provide!

  
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  Hi, I'm in the Boston area and trying to identify this plant. Can you help?

  
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  Greetings! This "sunflower" appeared in June/July, 2007, Southbridge, MA. Note that the stems are quite hairy, the leaves small, and the rays reflexed. Any ideas? Thanks, so much. --Carl

  
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  I have another sedge that I sent pictures of in May (Concord, MA), but they were not very clear. At the time you mentioned that it might be a member of section Laxiflorae, but you needed better images. I hope these help. If not, I do have a better camera I can use. Thank you!

  
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  Can any let me help to find this plant name? Its from Nepal, Mid hilly region.

  
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  Hi, I have 2 more shrubs I'm hoping you can help me identify. They are in the yard of the house we bought in Worcester. The first one looks very much like the cotoneasters you help me identify, but it has thorns & the leaves are not shiny. I don't remember it have flier or berries, but I could be wrong. The second has larger, almost velvety leaves. Again, I don't remember seeing any flowers or berries. Thanks again!

  
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  hello, i found this by the ocean shore but in florida, on the gulf coast; it was in a bag for months with some sea shells; it had started to bud when i took it out a few weeks ago; can you help me identify what plant it is??...thanks, jean marie..

  
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  We hiked in to view Elowah Falls on the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon on Saturday, July 1, 2017. In places we saw moss that seemed to be turning from green to blue, as in the attached photo. Can you explain? Is it possibly because of the recent extreme heat they had there? Thank you!

  
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  Hi, Can you please identify this shrub with berries growing within 10 feet of shoreline of a swampy part of Millenium Park in West Roxbury, MA on July 4? Thanks!

  
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  We hiked in to view Elowah Falls on the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon on Saturday, July 1, 2017. In places we saw moss that seemed to be turning from green to blue, as in the attached photo. Can you explain? Is it possibly because of the recent extreme heat they had there? Thank you!

  
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  Hi there! Was wondering if you could identify these two plants? I'm based in London. Many thanks!

  
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  Several weeks ago I sent you photos of a plant that you identified as Valerian officinalis with the caveat that it should have opposite leaves (the plant in my garden in Harrisville, NH has alternate branching). The 7' tall plant in these photos does have opposite branching and the leaves look very similar. It grows only 20' from the other "valerian". I haven't smelled the flowers or the root but will do so. Does it look like valerian to you?

  
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  This plant with 5-petaled yellow flowers grows along the Halfway House Trail on the south side of Mt. Monadnock in Jaffrey, NH. The petals are split, reminding me of a pink. The leaf (it is the lobed leaf with a spear-like point in the second photo) looks very much like that of a Prenanthes. What do you think this is? Do composites always have disc and ray flowers?

  
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  Unknown plant that has appeared in flower garden in North Waltham, Mass. plants are approaching 4 feet tall.

  
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  Hello. I am having a difficult time identifying the plant on the left in the picture I attached. I found it in Lake Winnipesaukee in NH. It covers the bottom of the lake in the shallow swimming area that ranges between 1 to 5 meters deep. The leaf blade length in the sample is about 57mm. The largest plants I saw of the same species had blade lengths of no more than 150mm. I appreciate the help. Thank you.

  
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  Sir can you please tell me what kind of plant is this. Thank you!

  
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  I am in ontario canada and have a ground cover I can not identify..low growing dense green mat with small blue/purple flowers

  
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  Hi, can you identify these plants? My neighbors are clearing out their yard and gave them to us but we don't know what they are. Thank you!

  
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  Another plant I can't identify. Can you help?

  
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  I asked you about a sedge (Concord, MA) earlier this spring when the plant was too young to identify. The flowers have changed now so I took a couple more pictures. I hope these are helpful.

  
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  I found this growing in a garden in the Helderbergs in NY. I was looking at the evening-primroses, but it doesn't seem quite right. Thank You,

  
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  This little Rose is sprouting up into our yard outside Albany NY. Thank You,

  
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  I saw this plant along the streetscapes of a nearby street while out jogging and I can't seem to figure out what tree it is. I am not certaiin if you Identify trees but I first though maybe this is a zelkova. Its got brown bark with lenticles, had white flowers in the spring, and is located in zone 5. Can you confirm if this is a zelkova or if it is something else?

  
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  Climbing nightshade In woodland backyard in North Waltham. Read is invasive species

  
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  The parent plant is growing in a friend's yard in western Washington State, USA, Puget Sound area.The bush grows approx 2ft tall and spreads through the root system. No flowers, and ever green. The leaves have very short hair on top and underside, and are approximately 3 x 5". The leaves are very thin, not succulent. It thrives in filtered sun, generous water,and loamy soil. We would appreciate any help you can give. No one seems to know what it is.

  
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  This was (I think) in somebody's garden, in Granby, CT, 41.92772,-72.82237 . Is it a kind of sedge? Are those flowers in the close-up? I hope I haven't worn out my welcome on Go Botany! I try to identify plants on my own before I send a question to you.

  
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  Hi, I have this growing in my garden in seacoast Nh, sunny and dry. I tasted the fruit last summer and it was very much like the ground cherry I have grown from seed but I wanted to check with an expert. The leaves are quite different and it didn't appear to match any species listed on your site.

  
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  Hi. I am trying to find out the name of this plant/flower. Thank you.

  
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  These photos were taken SW of Albany NY near a waterfall. I think there are two species of fern here. I'm not sure, since the sori do not look identical. Thank You,

  
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  This small pink flower was found amidst some low blueberry bushes in the woodlands of Putnam County, NY. Thank you for your help with id.

  
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  I have tried several times to ID this plant with no success. All the leaves grow out of a single node but I wouldn't think they were compound. They all are on the same side of the stem...whorled? The stems and flower stalks are hairy. The plant is about 4 inches tall. I'd love to know where I'm going wrong during the ID process.

  
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  This Rose was found in the Helderberg Escarpment NY. I was thinking it was Rosa rubiginosa, but I have no experience with this genus. Thank you,

  
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  This Rosa was also found in the Helderberg Escarpment NY. Can you tell me which species it is? Thank You,

  
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  Good morning! Morgan, Vermont (extreme northeast, Canadian border) Forest floor, lots of conifers but not found specifically under conifer June 8, 2017 Thank you for help!

  
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  Discovered this plant under a mature hemlock very near the water on Lake Winnipesaukee in Alton, NH, this weekend. Tried Newcomb and the GB database but can't seem to nail it. Any ideas?

  
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  Saponaria officinalis? The leaves are paired, opposite, simple margins.

  
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  This plant is on Prudence Island, RI in the sandy shore area. It is blooming now (June) and is about 3' diameter and 2' in height. Can you identify it please? Thank you.

  
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  I found this plant on the upper beach by the mouth of the Merrimack River on Plum Island. It has the look of a nightshade, indeed very like a plant which was a nightshade on the beach near St. Augustine, FL.

  
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  I was wondering what species of Veronica and Achillea would be the northeast natives that I could plant in a garden? It seems V. americana is associated with very wet conditions (correct) and that would not be suitable. Thanks!

  
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  Here are the photos of what I think might be Dutchmans Pipe. Sorry they didn't upload with my original post.

  
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  I am in dire trouble identifying this ground cover / maybe small shrub. It has all the characteristics of a juniper variety, common green carpet in particular, what exactly is it? The star flowers are hard to match with my resourses. It smells like cypress on the tips of needle growth only. Found growing out of a coastal rock in northern territory Australia in full sun, there are a lot of these around the edges of the beach, half are yellowing or already shed completly, but this one is in bloo

  
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  This crawler with waxy thick three set spear leaves and assymetrical flowers found on an island on the equator above australia. Vey hot beach, no rainfall for three weeks we are in dry season, but this is juicy and flourishing. So many buds waiting to flower, at first i thought it was a morning glory, but the leaves spear out, and this flower is weird. What is it? The engine searches and plant identifier apps have limited data or maybe I am not explaining the characteristics properly.

  
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  Do you have any idea what this is? (It was found in Cassadaga, NY (a rural farm community)). My mother bought her childhood farm and the tenant farmer didn't care for the land well. These things have spread EVERYWHERE! I don't know what they are. The top is pictured below. They look like carrots. The are rampant--roots connecting them and then more carrots--If left alone they appear to become stiff like tree stumps.... They don't flower. The carrots pic here are small.

  
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  This member of Apiaceae grows in a garden in Harrisville, NH. It's about 3' high, the stalk is green (no purple mottling), round and slightly ridged. It has a large compound leaf (alternate branching) and an umbel of 5-petaled very small flowers at the top.

  
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  Is this red mulberry? Found in my yard, on slope after had landscapers clear,away trees,and overgrowth, in South Windsor, CT.

  
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  Good evening & thank you for helping me previously identify several plants. I have another one. Could this be Joe Pye Weed? I'm not sure, but are the leaves too wide to be this plant? No blossoms yet.

  
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  Needed know what this was

  
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  Good afternoon! This shrub was growing in open water in NH. The water level is thought to fluctuate. Thanks in advance!

  
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  I have a very aggressive vine growing in my yard (in RI) that I think is Dutchmans Pipe. I've been told that this plant is an important source for for Swallowtail butterflies. Can you confirm if this is Dutchmans Pipe and how I can try to manage it? It's taking over!

  
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  What are these purple flowers? They grow everywhere. They may have originally been a garden plant, but I didn't plant them!

  
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  One more "what is it" flower. I didn't plant it, but it doesn't look wild to me. These are very small, about the size of a violet, but sturdier. We are in south central Massachusetts -- the Blackstone River valley.

  
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  So I've been cleaning some side brush in my yard, trying to get rid of some invasive species taking over. This plant popped up, as I started opening it up to sun, I believe it is a smilax lasioneura but I don't believe they are native to Maine, although I doubt somebody would've planted it. What is this plant? Thank you in advance

  
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  I realize this isn't a gardening website, but I am in search of some sort of perennial plant that spreads. Specifically, I'm trying to find something (other than grass of course) that is capable of quickly crowding out weeds so they don't grow. The weeds I'm dealing with have huge taproot systems and they are quite troublesome and no fun at all to dig out. I was going to try creeping thyme but I'm not sure about it. Do you you know of something that could help?

  
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  I found this in my backyard in Rhode Island and I believe it is curly dock. Can you confirm?

  
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  This plant was at my new home in Dekalb Illinois when I moved in. We have a creek running through our back yard. There are several of them, so I am guessing that they spread?? Can you help me identify it please? Thank you!

  
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  If you get two questions about this plant, please forgive me. This was taken near Albany NY in July. I thought it was Cowbane (Oxypolis rigidior) but I can't find it on your site. Do you have an ID for me? Thanks,

  
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  The last couple of years I've noticed what appear to be mutant flowers on Black Huckleberry at Quincy Bog Natural Area in Rumney, NH. The plants have plenty of healthy/normal looking flowers, but then I see something like the attached flower. Does someone there have an explanation for this?

  
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  Eric Larson of the Marsh Botanic Garden at Yale identifies this as Liquidambar styraciflua 'Rotundiloba" - the seedless sweet gum!

  
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  Hi-I have this flower which looks like a violet of some sort but I've never been able to identify it. I live in central vermont, and it's only found in this one little cluster in my lawn. Dry area in the grass, Colonizes a bit every year, starts blooming late May, I'm in zone 4-5.

  
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  Hello, I'm wondering about the difference between Viburnum oculos and trilobum? I realize that I may of never taken enough notes/photographs of the following species to identify it properly. It was located along the edge of a freshwater marsh in Southwestern, NB.

  
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  A friend told me this giant beautiful bush in yard was poison oak or sumac. I live in Delaware but I'm guessing you can identify it -- hoping so! I live a mile from the Delaware River. Our area gets flooded often. I'm doing a 100-day art project (photos/sketches) on Instagram to learn the plants in my neighborhood but this one has stumped me. I'm so glad I found your site. I'll be posting the link on social media and sending it to all the friends I've bugged about this plant. Thank you!

  
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  I live in Midwestern USA, this is growing next to my house among a huge clump of nasty weeds. Doest appear to be a displeasing plant so I was thinking about transplanting. Can you identify this, and is it a weed or wildflower or something else?

  
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  This is a shrub which is floppy and maybe around 4 feet high in Maynard MA in a dry area in full sun. It was recently under a Norway Maple which was removed recently. There smaller plants that are spring up nearby. Thank you

  
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  I identified the flower on the left as Centaurea montana (Bachelors-button) several years ago but now am not so sure. The flower on the right is surely Centaurea montana, and they look very different. The individual flowers looks more like those of a blue "ragged-robin".

  
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  Sweet-William catchfly (Silene or Atocion armeria) ? The Peterson guide mentions "black sticky zones" on the stem of the Sleepy catchfly. I zoomed in on the first photo and see those zones and even what looks like a fly stuck to one - just above the center of the photo. The pink flowers grow above a basal rosette; leaves are opposite; found in New Haven, CT. PS The bachelor's button flowers just posted grow in Harrisville, NH (first) and in an "urban pasture" at Yale, New Haven, CT.

  
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  This tree, perhaps an exotic, grows in the Marsh Botanic Garden of Yale University. The leaf suggests maple but the branching is definitely alternate. It is not a tulip tree. What is it?

  
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  As a land trust biologist, I was asked to identify the attached flower. The observer states that it is about the size of a dime, and that no vegetation was apparent. The flower was found between a barn and house in Denmark, ME. Thanks in advance for the ID!

  
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  This was found in the Helderberg Escarpment near Albany NY. I'm wondering if it is another example of a Christmas Fern. Thank You,

  
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  This tiny succulent plant was found in the Helderberg Escarpment, NY. Since it doesn't have a flower at this time I haven't been able to find it. I thought you might have better luck. (i.e. more experience) Thank You

  
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  This is planted in a tiny flower circle in central Connecticut. Please help identify. Many stalks/stems together, 18-24" tall. No flowers just yet? June 8, 2017. Hope it is a flowering plant? It's in a shaded side yard, but doesn't mean it was properly planted. I can tell they are there deliberately, because they only fill half of the circle. The roots grow sideways in the dirt. Help pls. I'm desperate (I have to keep tags on my plants, whereas previous owners did not leave info.) Thx.

  
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  Found in a cow pasture in Edgartown. Siliques up to two cm long with two rows of seeds. Plants up to about 3' tall. Stems with very fine pubescence. Tap root.

  
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  Hello, I'm wondering if this is Mirianthemum trifollium? I discovered it while exploring a disturbed bog (powerlines, all-terrain vehicle paths) in southwestern, Nova Scotia. Thank you.

  
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  This plant has come up along with many poppies I started from a bag of mixed poppy seeds in my garden in Indianapolis. It is now over five feet tall and blocking the view to the rest of the poppies. I'm hoping it might be a prickly poppy, but when answering the plant identifier questions I came up with a field sow thistle. Neither plants' stock pictures seem quite right. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Pull it or leave it?

  
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  The photo that you identified as Nabalus reminds me of this, taken a month ago in Antrim, NH, just as the first herbs were emerging to carpet the woods. Is it also Nabalus?

  
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  These two photos were taken 13 seconds apart in mid June, in Peterborough, NH. Is there a spiraea with this maple-like leaf? (clearer in second photo)

  
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  a small group of us amateurs were in the woods north of Boston with our ID books, but were unable to do much with these two. The first one looks like sassafras except that this part of a small group of herbaceous plants, no higher than this one whorl. The second one appears to be suffering, but in my mind, maybe its bloodroot. Hope they look familiar to you. - Bruce

  
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  This shrub was near Hinesburg VT. I thought it was a Viburnum, but after checking the photos of each species I'm confused. Thank You,

  
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  Hello! I found these proliferating in a meadowy area of what was once a farm (now a park) in southeastern Connecticut in mid-May. I have not had much luck identifying them. They look like a vetch, but I've never seen any vetch this wacky-looking before.

  
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  I am still trying to identify the many species around our southern NH home. The white trumpet-clusters(they're 3-4" long) seem to be on a vine. The small clustered white flowers are popping up in a damp bed abutting a low area. And the 3rd is in a flower bed but can't figure out what it is. The leaves are ominous. I can't imagine what the large buds will become.

  
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  Anyone know what this plant is or is it a weed. It appears every year and I usually pull it out thinking it's a weed.

  
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  Hello. I encountered this small, but striking flower in West Newbury yesterday. It was growing roadside on the edge of a meadow in a partially wooded area. Also blooming in the same area were Wild Geraniums and Dame's Rocket. The plant was about 1.5' tall with opposite, lanceolate leaves at about 5" intervals along the stem with about a 30 degree rotation of each pair. The way each petal was divided was particularly striking.

  
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  Hello. I just moved into a new home in Colorado (elevation 5,000 ft). There is a small area of these plants in my backyard. They are positioned in a more shady area underneath some small trees. I am really hoping that this is not poison ivy. Please help me identify these. Thank you!

  
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  I was told this is a Ornamental Mulberry, but I can't find any information on line. It's about 6' tall. I am in Northwest Ohio

  
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  I am having trouble identifying this plant. It's located in lower michigan and in a wooded area. Help?

  
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  I've discovered a shrub at Quincy Bog Natural Area in Rumney, NH that I can't identify. Leaves are alternating, shiny, and lanceolate. Flowers are small, white, and trumpet shaped and the flowers appear in threes with the flower stalks dropped over the leaf axil. 2 photos are attached.

  
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  Yes, sorry I didn't include the location as it was clearly required. This is the first time I've seen this plant and was very surprised at the size of it, with it being at least 2 feet tall. It was located in Southern Ontario along the Niagara Escarpment in a open area. I thought it was comfrey. The stems are very hairy and angular.

  
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  Mystery plant on the Satchel Moll power dam trail, between posts two and three. Location: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/41.77521/-72.90697 . Angelica atropurpurea, purple-stemmed angelica, great angelica?

  
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  can you tell me the name of this plant please

  
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  I'm having trouble finding resources on this apiaceae. It has taken over a lot of my yard this spring (in so. NH). Too early to see any type of flowers, but is clearly parsley family. It doesn't show any of the danger signs i.e. no purple at all and has hairs you can see 10ft away. looks to be basal at the moment I see no branching. The stalks have a curious open "C " shape, all along them. like a very thin celery. If this is a Q.A.Lace, then they have the biggest taproot I've ever seen on them

  
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  I'm trying to idntify this plant that appeared in one of my raised beds that I grew some veggies and herbs in last year in MA.

  
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  Hi my name is Christine and over a few years now i have found a small flower - pant under my apple tree. It is just a light green stem, with a cluster of red/orange berries in a lollypop shape. would you contact me. Thanks in advance. Christine. wolvesinthepark@aol.com

  
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  I believe this is a sedge. It is a prolific volunteer in my yard and I enjoy its filling in where i have removed grass. I would like to know what it is. Thank you. Concord, MA

  
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  I have another sedge, just one individual, in another part of my yard where I believe the soil is not very good. I am interested to know which one it is. If better pictures of specific aspects of these 2 sedges would help, please let me know. Concord, MA

  
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  The pictured fern was found in a damp woodland near a seasonal stream, near Albany NY. I am also wondering if I could be seeing both Phegopteris species (P. hexagonoptera and P. connectillis) in the same general area? Thank You,

  
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  This bright orange flower has popped up this year growing amidst a grassy field in Concord, MA. I'm guessing its a non-native species. It looks a a bit like a wild mustard. The plant has alternate leaves on a stem that ends in a stalk with multiple small flowers with 4 petals (each petal just under 1cm in length). Thank you : ) I'm having trouble uploading images and will email

  
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  I think this Hudsonia from a fire lane in the Manuel Correllus State Forest on Martha's Vineyard is H. ericoides. The pedicels are up to 6 mm long. The leaves are up to 4 mm long. Is the pubescence of the leaves abundant enough to make one consider the possibility of Hudsonia x spectabilis? Thank you.

  
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  Hi there! I'm new in the area and was intrigued by these plants. Would you mind identifying them? Many many thanks in advance!

  
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  I have seen this plant on our property in Cabot, Vermont and have been unsuccessful in identifying it. I see it in a small stream, as well as in a wetland area. I've seen it in the same area as Marsh Marigold. The plant seems to have basal leaves and one stalk with multiple flowers. Can you help identify this? Thank you.

  
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  This tiny flower is growing in several places in our wet yard near Albany NY Thank You, Ruth

  
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  May I send a photo of a plant/tree that is spreading all over my property? I'd like to get rid of it but the root system is endless & annoying. Thank you😃

  
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  Last message locked up on me. I have this plant that comes back every year...same spot..not sure what it is. Could you help identify? Not sure if it is a weed or what? Thanks..Mark

  
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  In my planter, I sowed Sweet William seeds..but this is what came up? Doesn't look like the seedling pictures I have seen on line? Did I waste my time? Should I start over, cause I am not sure what this is. Thanks again, Mark

  
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  Most of our phlox leaves have a distinctive marginal vein and grow in opposite sets of two. Each set is rotated 90 degrees from its neighbors above and below on the stem (decussate). Recently I observed what looks like the identical plant growing in the same group, but with three leaves per node instead of two. These sets of three are also rotated relative to each other, but by 60 degrees. I also have one plant with single leaves arranged alternately. Is this common? Mark M, Singers Glen, VA

  
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  Hello, I'm in SE Mass. Swansea. My first query is about the tree in bloom. Birds love the red berries in fall. The other tree has very few leaves, very old. Not sure if it's native.

  
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  Hello, I was hoping to get a more positive ID on a plant I've seen growing in patches throughout the woods, south of Concord, NH. I've always been lead to believe it is pipsissewa. Just found a patch in a deeply wooded area along the Merrimack river. I found that most descriptions online don't match up 100%. Not much teeth on the sides of the leaves and a purple-red on their undersides. Are there any look-a-likes I should know about?

  
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  Having a problem identifying this plant. Can anyone help?

  
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  I've found this plant in growing in quite a shady part of my garden, it looks familiar but I can't work out what it is using some online tools, any clues would be great as I do like the look of it.

  
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  Sir,, Please identify to that plant It is grown in village /mountain

  
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  Good evening. I'm hoping you can identify this shrub (there are 5 total) in the yard of a house in Worcester that we are rehabbing. The shrubs are about 4 feet tall, but could get taller. I have been trimming them. The flowers are small. The leaves are at most an inch long. Thank you!

  
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  The garden patch outside our house in a very wooded edge of Amherst, MA is often overtaken by mostly presumably native plants. I've been trying to leave as much as I can around our vegetable plots, especially if they'll flower and be beneficial to pollinators. I'm familiar with the morning glory vines and the wood sorrel, but I can't identify the lacy-leafed things here. It's quick-growing and familiar but I didn't introduce it. What is it? Will it flower?

  
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  So I believe I have a pink shell azalea here in Maine. I'm not quite sure though. I have uploaded two images I took a few years ago but I could take a couple more of the foliage right now as the blooms just died off. What do you think? Seems sort of rare I read. Thank you for your input, Nikki Green

  
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  Hi, I have what I believe to be a mockernut hickory, judging by the bark, nuts, and flowers that are similar to https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/carya/tomentosa/. After the flowers drop on the ground in the spring, I rake them up and put them in my yard waste bin. Would it be OK for me to compost them instead, and if I do, will they provide more carbon or nitrogen to my mix? Thanks in advance.

  
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  Here is a somewhat closer shot of the plant below to confirm whether it is Anemone canadensis.

  
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  This plant is growing next to my friend's barn in southeastern Pennsylvania. While her pig was alive this plant was always just part of her chow. Now that it's finally in bloom we are having trouble finding out what it is.

  
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  Looking for ID on this weed that showed up at house foundation. Upstate NY. Lots of fields surrounding us.

  
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  Hello, I live in Columbia County, NY which borders western MA. I've run across this perennial in a disturbed area that I'm clearing of invasives (Norway maples, garlic mustard, etc.). Can you tell me what this might be? At first, I thought it was wild geranium which is also nearby.

  
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  Hi, I am a newbie to this site... I saw this plant along with several others in a garden in Aberporth, Ceredigion, West Wales and hope that someone may be able to identify it. The house is very close to the sea but sheltered from it by other houses. Height wise they are about 15 feet tall and have small purple flowers. Many thanks in advance Whatif

  
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  Hello. I found this plant in the Hellcat Area on Plum Island, MA. It looks like Canada Rockcress, and the distribution map indicates it's in the area. The green seed pods have a strong mustardlike taste; however, other plants looks quite similar, and I would like confirmation. Plum Island being a barrier island with a sandy substrate, the habitat didn't seem to match.

  
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  yes i would like to know what type of plant this is in nevada

  
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  I found these little beauties in an area with very dry shade under a dogwood tree in my backyard in Worcester. Initially I thought they were violets, but I don't believe they are - they have 6 petals and are bell-shaped. Are you able to identify these for me? Please and thank you. Denise

  
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  Is there a way to tell how old a lilac copse is? Since pruning recommendations are to remove entire stems, the true age of the plant would be only seen in the roots, right? I've read that lilacs were often brought from Europe and popular planted in gardens in the 18th century - I have a well established (and in need of pruning) stretch of both purple and white lilac along the stone wall along the road in from of a 325+ year old house in E.MA... Would love to know if the lilac are just as old!

  
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  Thanks for the ID of Morrow's Honeysuckle! It seems the "foreign" species have more open and upward flowers compared to the native ones - is that a valid way to distinguish them? I've read the non-natives also have hollow stems? I ask because I'm trying to identify what to protect/keep in an upcoming anti-buckthorn-swallowort-bittersweet effort, and I'm worried about mistaken identity! (Photo: Is this another Morrow's? Pink flowers)

  
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  Hello, ace botanists! My name is Carson. I live in Bath, Maine, not far from a wetland area. Much of the soil in the area is heavy with clay. I've been seeing a couple plants like this one in my neighborhood. This particular one is located on a roadside. I thought it might be some variety of packera, but I'm not very good at telling! Any help you could provide would be excellent.

  
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  Grass like plant growing along small stream Williston, VT June 14th. Thanks

  
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  Taken July 6, 2013 along a road in eastern Tennessee. Stachys palustris?

  
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  Yes this large shrub/young tree is growing in a young hardwoods on a slight slope off the end of a field. It is located in western NY. If you need more information please ask and a bunch of us here are dying to know what it is, since we have checked numerous resources to no avail. Thank You Dave

  
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  In southern NH, we have a load of this ground-bound vine on a steep slope that doesn't get too much sun. I can't figure out what it is. Thanks.

  
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  Found in Sudbury, MA along southern edge of primarily coniferous woodline; photo taken on May 18th. Photo shows fresh white and spent yellowed flowers. Bush habit, textured bark, some specimens peeling. Flowers are in pairs and have separate ovaries. Full key seems to indicate this is a honeysuckle (a term that triggers a knee-jerk reaction "Ahhh! Invasive! Kill it!") and I was surprised to learn there are native species! Am I fortunate to have one, or is it pitchfork time?

  
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  If this image loads I would love an ifentification. Grows abundantly in Nashua, NH in a mostly pine, oak, maple, viburnum woods in filtered light.

  
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  Thank you for your recent id's. They are really helping me identify what I have in my yard. Here is a volunteer fern in my back yard I'm not sure off. Concord, MA

  
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  Here is tree sapling volunteering in my back yard (Concord, MA). It seems to be some kind of elm. I believe I see the same tree popping all over roadsides in Concord. Is there a way to tell what species it is?

  
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  And here is another tree sapling that has volunteered itself in a few spots in my backyard. It's leaves and stems are sticky and aromatic. My best guess was Black Walnut. Concord, MA. Thank you!

  
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  Is this a bulblet on the Bublet Fragile Fern (Cystopteris bulbifera) from near Albany NY? Thanks,

  
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  This Geranium was found blooming near the Thatcher Park Nature Ctr. Helderbergs NY I can't figure out which species.

  
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  Can you identify whether an endemic tree species is endangered based on population density alone?

  
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  Hello, Yesterday, May 22, I saw many of these plants growing in the Maine woods in the Moosehead Lake area. The leaves are hairy. It was not in flower. It was in an area that has been used for many years as a fishing and sporting camp. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks, Marty

  
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  Recently moved to a property in North Andover, MA that hadn't been cared for for several years. Trying to identify this (coniferous?) tree and a vine growing nearby. Can you help?

  
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  This is a sapling of some kind of tree. These or similar pop up around my yard every year. Concord, MA, suburban yard near wooded area.

  
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  Hi I have a roughly 8 inch tree seedling I'm trying to identify. Pictures attached. thank you! Concord, MA backyard near a wooded area (mostly oaks).

  
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  Tried to upload photos but not sure it worked.

  
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  Hi I''m new to the area and I found this in Pepperell, MA. Near the Nashua River but located in my yard that backs up to some woods.

  
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  This plant was found in a damp woods near Delmar NY. I wondered about Lepidium species, but it doesn't seem to match. Thank You

  
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  I found this on a small rocky rise in The Helderberg Escarpment NY. I think I've narrowed it down to a Polypodium species. Thank You

  
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  This fern was found on a rocky outcrop near Delmar NY. I thought that it looked like a fern I sent to you last week, that you suggested was a Cystopteris bulbifera. I do not see the bulblets on the underside of the leaf, although I checked several fronds. Would you always expect to see a bulblet on a frond in C. bulbifera? Or is there another ID for this? Thanks

  
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  Hello, this plant is growing in a landscape bed that used to be full of pachysandra. The pachysandra mysteriously died last summer, and now I have four of these plants in the bed. I have no idea what they are or how they got there. I am in Westchester County, NY (not exactly New England, but just a stone's throw from CT). Many thanks in advance.

  
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  Any idea what this plant is?

  
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  This plant, photographed in November of 2013, had few leaves left. Those I do see do not appear to have toothed margins, therefore Clematis virginiana seems unlikely. Thank you for your thoughts!

  
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  This plant grows along School Street in Concord, NH. It was in bloom this past week. It resembles Philadelphus inodorus. However, most but not all flowers seem to have 5 petals. And P. inodorus is not supposed to occur in NH.

  
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  Ah, spring in New England, such a wonderful time. My query is about this plant: it is a shrub, about 2 m tall at this point growing in my yard in Southbridge, MA; photos taken within the past day or so. I have, hopefully, attached a picture of the flowers and leaves, and of a cross-section of the stem. Thanks, as ever, --Carl

  
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  I recently moved to southern NH. I'm attempting to identify the huge variety of flora on our property. Here are two pics. One is what I believe is a blackberry species - it has 3 leaves & during winter, they're bare arched branches. They're planted on woods' edge facing/stretching eastward. Amongst those plants, see 2nd pic, I've circled an emerging plant - the stem is very different. Thanks for your help!

  
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  We've been noticing these popping up around our home! We like them. It don't know what they are! And want to know if they're poisonous please help! We're located in Oregon

  
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  I was sure this was Lonicera canadensis but now wonder if it is L. villosa. Found on one of our brooks and a piece taken to another brook, where we now have 5 plants (they did that all on their own). May 14, 2017 Barton, VT (northeast VT) Thank you!

  
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  We bought a house in Worcester that we have been rehabbing. The yard was a mess & we are slowly reviving it, trying to use only approximately native plantings. We have many plants that have popped up in a dry area between our driveway & street. Can you help me identify so I know whether they should stay or go? I think they had a yellow flower on them last year. Thanks.

  
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  I was wondering what this flower is, someone told me it was poisonous? Found on side of road in Grafton MA

  
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  Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea)? Growing in Benton Point State Park, RI near path.

  
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  Campanula patula? Newport RI growing to the side of a path at Benton Point State Park

  
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  I believe this is a skullcap (Scutellaria). It was growing in Pennsylvania in a garden, so may be neither New England nor wild. Do you know the species?

  
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  i have a plant that is really trying to takeover my wild flowers. Ill describe it at the young stage say 12-18" has a purple stem not hollow and rounded. leaves are alternate and about 6" long with single vein the length,and almost like short points on edges 1/2" apart.looks like they get lobed when they get larger. no separation between leaf and stem

  
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  Seen in Worcester, MA. Woody-tree but cannot tell what the species is... please help!

  
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  Hi, Here are some photos of a plant growing next to my house. They are in rocky soil next to a stone foundation. The pictures were taken this week. Can you identify the plant? Is it hawkweed? Thanks!

  
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  Hello I found this plant in my woods behind my yard in Massachusetts. Can you let me know what it is? 😁

  
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  Hello, this plant is growing in our garden in rural Royalston, Massachusetts (North Central MA) and we haven't been able to ID it to determine if it's a weed we should try to control. It was one of the first plants to begin growing in the early spring. We haven't seen any flowers on it yet. The leaf in the photo is 2" from tip to base. Thank you for any advice! Lydia

  
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  I have been trying to figure out what this is. I really want some in my yard.

  
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  Hi! I am new to CT (New England in general) and am super excited about discovering all the plants around. I recently came across what I believe is a Black Huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata). I would love to eat their berries when they start becoming ripe. Never had a huckleberry before! My question is, are there any look-a-like plants I should be concerned about? I want to be sure I am eating the berries of a huckleberry and not something potentially toxic. Picture attached. Thanks!

  
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  Good day! I'm Stumped! This is flowering now (05-14) in Northeastern Vermont. It's roadside....Leaves look like rhubarb...it's growing in a large patch that is often damp to wet with run-off, and then dries out. I just found your site, so if you need more info lmk and I will go back and get better details.... Thanks!

  
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  Several of these growths were seen growing on a Juniper in a brushy field near Rutland VT. We cut it in half and there was a hard center reminding us of a 'gall', but the tentacles were very gelatinous. Thank You,

  
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  This photo was taken May 4, 2013 somewhere in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire. The pink flowers each have four petals and bloom in a cluster. The leaf at the base of each flower stalk seems to clasp the stalk. The stem of the plant is hairy.

  
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  It is a fungi. Kindly tell me its name. I'm from Goa,India Thank you

  
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  Does PlantShare data (photos and locations) get used by invasive species tracking projects, such as PLANTS/EDDMaps/Outsmart?

  
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  I have thought that New England Violet 2017 Lee NH DSCN2973.png is just the Viola nephrophylla. (Larger image) We have a lot of them in the back yard this time of year. Our yard is on the edge of a forest. But New England Violet 2017 Lee NH DSCN2980.png (first one uploaded, smaller image) seems to have pointier leaves than I am used to seeing. I'm just a guy with a back yard, not a botany person.

  
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  Hi, I have been trying to identify a low-growing wet area woodland plant from a remote area of Wiscasset, Maine, for almost a year. I've had no luck and many hours involved. It has very dark green variegated leaves and I think multiplies through rhizomes. How do I upload a photo? Can I just email one to you? I've thoroughly searched the key with no luck. Thanks, L

  
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  Hi, The attached photos are of plants in a forest Brookline, MA. I took the photos on May 6, 2017. The area where the plants are growing is partly shaded. The soil looks rocky. Thanks!

  
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  Hi, I'm resubmitting this question because I'm not sure it went through to you. I took pictures of this flower in a forest in Brookline, MA on May 6, 2017. The area where the plants are growing is partly shaded & the soil seems pretty rocky. A meadow is about 50 feet away. What did I find? Thanks!

  
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  Several of these ferns were growing on a path near a creek in Troy NY. I'm wondering if it could be a Athyrium species? Thank You,

  
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  I think I see this plant frequently in the spring in moist places. Maybe it grows up into something that I could identify. I'll upload some pictures from today in Hebron, CT. Thanks!

  
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  Last summer I purchased and planted a bunch of different split plants from a local gardener here in St. Charles, IL. I had them marked, however - the markers did not weather the winter :( Can you please help me identify this plant? I am not sure if it is something I planted or, if it is an invasive weed. Thank you!! Sincerely, Lisa H.

  
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  I am looking for the best way to increase my knowledge about invasive weeds. On-line class? Feild class, Mass Audobon Society?? I started renting Goats in Central Mass and I need to have a knowledge base to Identify poison plants for the goats. Along with knowledge of non-native invasive Plants. Thank You, Tammy Hebert Central Mass Goat Rental

  
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  I found this white trillium with green petals and red in center next to some Trillium Erectus. This white/green flower doesn't fit descriptions or photos of other trilliums. Would you please confirm its identify. Location: Henniker, NH. PS - recently attended Ted Elliman's talk at Fox State Forest in Hillsboro NH and bought his great book (Wildflowers of New England Elliman & NEWFS) which doesn't include this particular trillium. Thanks for your input!

  
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  Hi, The attached photos are of plants in my yard in Brookline, MA. I took the photos on May 6, 2017. The area where the plants are growing is unshaded. The plants are growing next to my house which has a stone foundation. Are they all prickly lettuce at various stages of growth? Thanks!

  
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  These two ferns/plants were found clinging to a rock wall beside a waterfall in upstate NY. I'm just getting started learning my ferns and any advice would be helpful. Thank You,

  
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  What is this? The tiny buds along the outer edges of the leaves are seedling. That's how I grew these in about a month or so. I Just dropped them in water. Tampa Florida.

  
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  Good Afternoon, I live in Nh and am having difficulty identifying an early perennial that's popping up all over my perennial garden. I originally thought it to be mint or Greek oregano as I have a few varieties in the garden as well but it is not. It has very dark purple leaves, has no scent and seems to be spreading. Any thoughts?

  
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  Hi, I can't find the name of this plant. Can you help me?

  
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  What is this plant please. I live in south western Pennsylvania. Just found it laying on the ground a tree the edge of my woods. Oak and maple trees around.

  
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  Hi! I'm hoping to identify these 4 plants for a class I'm taking, but they are so young that their features are a little ambiguous and I am not sure how to use the key for them. All of them are growing in Greenfield, MA. Thank you!

  
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  Hi, I am trying to investigate dimorphism in Pyrrosia Piloselloides for my school project but I'm not sure how. I know there are two types of fronds in this species- the fertile frond and sterile frond and I tried to study the fern cycle. How far do environmental conditions affect the dimorphism in Pyrrosia Piloselloides or is it age that affect the dimorphism? How do I quantify this data? This species can be found in North eastern India, Malaysia and almost every part of Singapore.

  
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  What is the name of this lichen growing on an old rotting birch log... I'm in Canada, Ontario, Algoma District Thank You!

  
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  This plant was found in a very wet forest near Rensselaerville NY. I believe it is a Ranunculus species. The one irregularly shaped leaf in the second photo puts me off of R. arbortivus. Thank You

  
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  Hello, we have been digging these up and eating them for years but do not know the name of them can you please help me in finding the correct name? Found in Lookout, CA. USA

  
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  The McCabe Forest in Antrim, NH is a mixed soft/hardwood forest. May 2, after heavy rains, much of it was very wet. These flowers were spreading in dense patches. The first photo is Anemone quinquefolia. To its right, a small white cluster. The second photo shows an open cluster: Panax trifolius? My books show bigger umbels.

  
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  Good Morning! I live in the Mohawk Valley in the state of New York. I found this cute little flower growing all by itself next to my pond this Spring. Can you identify for me? Thanks very much, Brenda

  
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  Dear Ace Botanist; Please identify this tree that volunteered in our garden. I think it may be a Green Alder. The location is Newport, Rhode Island about 1000 feet north of the Atlantic Ocean. Rob

  
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  I'm trying to identify this plant. It is growing on the side of our driveway in southern Vermont. The sharply toothed leaves and reddish underside of the leaf seems like it should be make it easy, but I have been unable to find an identification. Can you help me? Thank you.

  
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  Can you please help me ID this plant? I found it a few days ago in the berkshires in a very moist wooded area. The flowers are on a bush. Thank you!

  
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  This plant is growing in my garden in Simi Valley California and I'd like to know what it is?

  
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  Would you mind helping me ID the plant in the attached picture? I was hiking on a rustic trail in the inner section of Cape Ann, Ma (close to Dogtown). This plant had two woody stems, one short upright and the4 foot stem pictured, was flopping over a rock. I think it resembles Sambucus. The environs were rocky moraine wetland. - Bruce

  
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  Looking for an ID on this shrub like plant growing in a woodland habitat in southeastern CT. Single white flower at the end with 2 deeply toothed opposite leaves on either side. Thank you.

  
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  I have been trying to figure out this plant. It is a shrub located about 10-15ft from a pond in Simsbury Ct, at Stratton Brook State Park. The plant is about 7ft tall. The longest leaves average 57mm from tip to base (not including the petiole), and average 20mm wide. The short leaves average 30-35mm in length, and average 20mm wide. The under side of the leaf is grayish and fussy in appearance. The leaf margins are serrated. The buds seem to be scales with hairs on them.

  
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  Would like to ID this pine tree. Located in NYC, Riverside park, alongside the Hudson River. There is a stand along the clay tennis courts. Maybe a pitch pine? Thank you!

  
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  Could you please help me identify this plant? Recently moved to Northern VT and it's growing over half of the yard. It has a single leaf per stem that is freckled on one side and solid colored on the other. If I try to pull it out of the ground only a white stem comes up, no roots. Also if it helps the soil is sandy and mossy where is it growing and the plants ranges from the height pictured to two inches currently.

  
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  Hello, I live in southeastern Wisconsin, and stumbled upon this website while trying to identify a plant I've seen growing in my yard. I first saw it two years ago, but not last year. This year, I was able to avoid it with the lawn mower and took a couple pictures. I am thinking that it is Barbarea vulgaris, but I think I see pictures of more than one plant specie in the sample pictures, and wanted to ask before posting: are the pictures I have taken of Barbarea vulgaris, or something else?

  
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  Could you please help me identify this plant I found growing in woods on my property?

  
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  Thanks for your reply (about the twigs). Unfortunately the tree was pulled down with heavy snow so there is just the stump left - here is a picture of the bark. Cheers Shaun

  
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  Hi. Im new to southern Maine and trying to learn plants. Just took the course in winter trees and got the Trees of Canada and the US - but cant figure out what tree this is. Here are pictures of the buds and leaf scar. Hope you can help. Cheers Shaun

  
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  Can you please tell me what this is

  
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  CAn you tell me want plant this is? It comes up every year in my flower bed, sometime has a whit bloom

  
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  these 2 plants have shot up in my greenhouse. I have never seen any thing like it but I do buy a lot of bird food (seeds ect) from our local shops. sorry just read about you being in new England .I am in cornwall uk.

  
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  Hi, I think this plant may be ginseng, but am not sure. The second photo shows a bit of the root. It is growing in woodland near a stream in southern Vermont. Thanks for your help. lmc825

  
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  Hi, I think these plants may be viburnum nudum seedlings, what do you think? They are growing in woodland near a stream in southern Vermont. As always, your help is much appreciated. lmc825

  
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  Hi I found this little plant in my yard and I'm wondering what plant it it and if it's edible ( next to some dandelions in my lawn). Thank you for your time😁

  
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  Hi, I am trying to id the attached small woody plant. The red venation of the leaves seems unique and is not familiar to me. This plant is in the Gill Town Forest, and the photo is from a couple days ago. Several twigs had been trimmed, presumably munched. I could not get the id with the gobotany process. Thanks for your help. Nora

  
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  May I ask if what plant is this?

  
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  Hello, Can you help me to select an evergreen ground covering plants.

  
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  This plant is invading my lawn and flower beds. Pic is attached. Can you ID? Method to control spreading? Thanks. Best, Ray Dona

  
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  Hello again, thanks for previous answer. I'm sending you a picture of a plant, and again I'm asking you if you can determine it? The picture so the plant is from Croatia. Best regards, Simon

  
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  What is this plant?

  
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  I bought this plant recently and I can't figure out what this is. I'm in Oklahoma.

  
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  Hello. My sister, who lives in Mansfield, MA, is looking for suggestions for wild plants that can be used to make yarn (by spinning). She knows about milkweed already. She'd prefer that they be ones that are ok to harvest, such as invasives. Do you have any that you'd recommend trying? She also spends time up in the Eastport, Maine area, so plants up there would be good to know about, as well. Thanks for your help.

  
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  I found a possible field pennycress in my lawn can you confirm if this is feild pennycress? Massachusetts usa

  
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  4/16/17 flowering woody stemmed plant along trail in Montpelier VT Pink 4 petaled flowers, no leaves visible. Thank you

  
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  What is the yellow thing? I am from Tunisia.

  
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  I am in north west Arkansas in the river valley. This plant is highly invasive, C an you tell me what this plant is?

  
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  Hello! I have been trying to figure out what kind of plant this is. The seed was small and black. The stem and leaves have trichomes that make it very fuzzy and leave a sticky residue on your fingers. The leaves are rounded, have netted veins, and have an alternate leaf arrangement. I am unaware of the location but I hope you can help! Thank you! -Mia Pagliuco

  
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  I apologize for the less-than-great image quality, but I found these tiny flowers in the grass and haven't been able to find a name for them. One is a blueish color, maybe faintly purple, with darker stripes radiating from the center. The other is solid orange, and looked somewhat like a rose that hadn't fully bloomed when I first picked it. Any sort of help or even just a point in the right general direction would be appreciated, I can't find anything about these little guys!

  
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  We saw this tree in NY on vacation peppered in the state parks near rivers in NJ & NY and in yards and along roadsides. We first noticed it in Ringwood New Kersey State Park and then in Barcelona, NY. It had a large, whitish-pink, cup-shaped flower pointing upward at tip of branches. It was not leafed out at all and the bark did not seem flaky but ridged. It was at least 60 feet tall with a very straight trunk. I am from Kansas and have never seen a tree like this. What is it?

  
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  I found Conopholis americana but I live in southern WV does it still qualify for your site?

  
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  Hello, a friend gave to me this plant, I don't know how is called, I'm trying to make her bonsai. Please can you tell me the name, and if I can realise a bonsai with her. Regards

  
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  Hi, I was wondering, are there any plants that when damaged will/can grow back stronger?

  
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  Hello, this is a plant which is photographed in Croatia, it grows at the slopes of Dinara mountain. Can you indentify it? It flowers in mid-May. Sincerely, Simon

  
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  I found this image on gobotany, described as Galium labradoricum. (This isn't my photo. It is attributed to Donald Cameron.) I am curious about the pink flowers (fruits) in this image. I've seen white variations in nature of flowers that are typically red, but not the other way around. Terry Serres

  
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  Thank you for your response. The ligule is at most .5 mm, but is membranous. The photos are not great, but the best I can do. I checked at the Connell Herbarium and none of the Juncus tenuis there had leaves and flowering stalks so narrow (< 0.5 mm). I greatly appreciate your assistance.

  
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  I am very new to farming. I have Indole-3-Acetic Acid (IAA) and Gibberellic Acid (GA3) and I am going to be using it on pole beans but I dont know how to use it. Can you let me know how to use IAA and GA3. Can you please be specific on the quantity and keep the answer simple because I am new to farming.

  
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  Many thanks for your suggestion of Sporobolus cryptandrus. While it does not seem to be a perfect fit, the location is one that I can return to this summer and hopefully find the plant in flower or seed. If you are correct, it would be a new record for New Brunswick. Thank you for sharing your time and expertise!

  
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  Found in tolerant hardwoods along X country ski trail, 25 km west of Fredericton NB. Most capsules had been invaded and seeds eaten. One capsule survived and had tailless seeds. Continues to key out to Juncus tenuis, but plant seems too fine. Leaves <0.5 mm wide, flat to inrolled, non-septate. Some flowers single, others in groups of 2-3. Is this just a fine J. tenuis? Thank you.

  
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  Hello, thanks for answering my last question! This wildflower was photographed last year in VT on June 8th. It was found at the edge of a pasture (that isn’t grazed much) near a wooded area. I'm not sure how tall it was, but I'd guess a little over a foot. What kind of aster is it? I can't seem to find any asters like it that bloom in the spring here. Thanks again for your help!!

  
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  This non-fertile grass was growing in close association with Panicum acuminatum along a cross-country ski trail margin going through a young tolerant hardwoods. It was hoped the incredibly long, thin leaves (<2 mm wide, 15-28 cm long) should be definitive. Location is just west of Fredericton NB. Any help would be appreciated.

  
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  Does anyone know what this plant is? My dad said it is a weed. Before I pull it up, I want to make sure.

  
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  Can you identify this plant that we found on a hike in middle Tennessee yesterday?

  
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  Hi, I got a lavender - I mean this is what I thought it was - but it grows a bit weird. I have not found a picture of a similar one. Any ideas? Thanks! Karolina

  
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  Hi, came across this fruit/flower in the Malaysian tropical jungle. Can anyone tell me what this is? Poisonous or not? Thanks. Cheers, Monica

  
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  I've been trying to identify this plant for a while now , it is a potted plant I got as a present so the location where it grows natively I'm not sure of.

  
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  Hello, I have been struggling to identify this flower I photographed in September almost 6 years ago. I think I found it in the driest area of my yard in VT. I do not have photos of the leaves. I don't remember much about the plant other than that it was very low to the ground and tiny (but its growth could have been stunted because it was in the middle of our mowed lawn). Here is a link to my photo: https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2861/33169588901_fcc5b9c022_c.jpg Thanks for your help!

  
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  Hello, I have no idea what region my plant could be found, but I have determined that it must be a eudicot because it has 5 petals on the flower. Also I think it must live in an arid region because the leaves are very thick and seem to be used for water storage.

  
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  Can you please identify this plant for me It was found on my farm in east texas Curtis

  
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  Is there any blue pine trees grown in round shape, not in cone shape?

  
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  i saw this plant in a nursery in FtLauderdale and it was growing in a large terrarium it didnt have any flowers just beautiful pink leaves . The leaves looked like coleus leaf but larger and pink , please help , Thank You !

  
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  Can you help identify this mustard found in Brookfield, CT? It is very large (~4ft) in upland areas.

  
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  Hi, thank you for the answer to the last question! This herbaceous plant was found in a forested wetland in June. This plant was located in Southeastern Connecticut. The plant was less than a 1 foot in height.

  
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  Hello. I found this growing in my hoop house in RI. I know the picture isn't great. It's Definitley in the mint family as it has a square stem. Could it be heal all?

  
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  I'm from India, but my question is just general. Why does beetroot have rings on it when cut horizontally?

  
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  This shrub was located along a dirt road in Jackman, Maine. The road bordered a alder wetland. The shrub was approximately 5 feet in height. These "cones?" were present at the end of each branch. These shrubs seemed to be numerous in the area. The buds were small and pointed. The terminal "cone" was new to me. Thanks!

  
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  From a coastal island in New Brunswick, near Maine. Polygonum buxiforme? Achenes are 2.7 mm long, and the pattern on the achene surface is arranged in somewhat longitudinal rows, not sure if this is striate-papillose. Pouch-like swelling is not at base of tepals, but at base of their distinct portion. Tepals are >3 mm long, plants were prostrate on shore.

  
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  Hello, I found this very pretty flower tattoo but I cannot identify or find the name of the flower. If there is any way you can identify it, that would be wonderful. Thank you so much.

  
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  Hi, I saw this plant in Tate Georgia today, it was obviously planted and not native but I cannot find any information on it and I am very interested to know more about it. If you can give me a clue I would be thrilled! Thank you

  
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  Hello, I have no idea what region my plant might live, but I have decided that it is a eudicot because it has flowers with 5 petals. It may live in an arid region because the leaves are very thick.

  
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  This plant was observed 2/1/17 in Southborough, MA in a roadside wetland/stream. As shown in the habitat picture, these plants were the only green vegetation in the area. Plants were rooted in soft sediment and extended 6-10 in above the water surface. The plants were very healthy and vibrant green when picked, but have deteriorated slightly since being indoors. The largest leaves are approx. 8 cm long and 3-4 cm at their widest point. Any ID assistance would be greatly appreciated!

  
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  Thank you so much for your answer, it is very helpful, and thank you for this amazing resource! I've found a dozen native plants I can use instead of imported & potentially disruptive ones.

  
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  Can you help identifying this plant please sir it was found on my land in south east texas Curtis

  
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  I found this a couple of weeks ago growing in a wooded area in RI? Can you help id. Thanks

  
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  Hello! I wonder if you have any suggestions as to what this could be. It's low-growing (I think only basal leaves are present) and spreads vigorously, it's bright green and appears in October and is cheerful and robust through springtime, when the bayberry it lives under leafs out. I've observed it for two years and have not identified a flower or seed. It's in a sunny dry location in Providence, RI. Bayberry leaves for scale. I'd like to know if it's native or at least benign!

  
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  Hi, Found what I believe to be a species of sedge. The photo is dated back in January in Groton, Connecticut. The Plant is still green and smooth. The leaf blade was approximately one half inch in diameter and 9-12 inches in length. The plant was clumped and located in a "floodplain" area along a large stream. The area is wet during parts of the year but flooding only occurs every 10 years. The surrounding forest composition is mostly oak, beech, hornbeam and red maple and Clethra. Thanks

  
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  Hello, This is a picture of a flower taken in Mauritius in January this year (summer there). It was in the forest, mostly humid region

  
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  This plant comes from Corfu Arillas not far from the sea about 1 mile the hight is 6-8 inches spreads This one has , a sort of green gooseberry type fruit When ripe the berry can pop and the "sap" is said to be poisonous. the leaves are hairy can you help to identify this plant please

  
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  Many thanks for your response. In comparing my specimen with herbarium specimens of Hylotelephium telephium I think you are 100% correct. I will look for tubers next time I see this species. With appreciation

  
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  Plant found on west side of Frye Is., coastal NB., 12 miles east of Maine. 10' in from the coast in open coniferous stand growning up around an old mining exploration site. No flowers present. Underleaf has little small sessile red glands. Small cluster of light orange glands at the base of the plant. Fresh leaf was succulent, now dried, it is semi-transparent (one can see the glands through the upper leaf surface. Leaves opposite with mostly entire margin. Any help would be appreciated.

  
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  I think this is Suaeda maritima. From a coastal sand beach in Washington County, Maine. Sepals are rounded, without keels. This must be ssp. maritima because utricles are 1.7 mm long and longest (dried) leaves are >20 mm long. Is the red color of utricles diagnostic?

  
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  Hello, I just want a clear explanation of blackberry roots, are they deep rooted? What type of root it has. I got different info on line, so I need to clarify it. Thanks for the help in Advance.

  
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  Hi, I think I have finally found a ground cover that I often see in the woods around eastern Ma -- goes by several names such as vinca minor, periwinkle... I like the variety that spreads rapidly and that can tolerate a dog running over it. At last, an alternative to failed attempts to grow grass. Part sun, part shade. Any suggestions on where to buy it or virtues of particular varieties. This is all part of my campaign to make my yard more forested! Thanks so much! Acidic soil?

  
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  A broken red oak (I think) tree branch had many of these scary things on it. Are they some kind of gall? These pictures were taken on December 23, 2016, in the woods in Windsor, CT.

  
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  I took this picture on October 7, 2016 in a forest on a basalt ridge in Berlin, CT. The plant grew in a thick patch, about eight feet across.

  
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  Hi everybody Could you help me to identify this plant? It looks like Echium vulgare (viper's bugloss) but its flowers are yellow.

  
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  Can someone identify this? It was growing in pots with Aloe Vera.

  
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  Lot's of these in the woods. They appear to be evergreen. Maybe Rubus dalibarda, also known as dewdrop? But Rubus dalibarda is supposed to be rare in Connecticut, and I think I see lots of these. Or how about Viola renifolia, also known as Gray kidney-leaved violet? Links to Google Photos are convenient for me, but maybe you need uploaded images, so I'll try that too. These were next to a fence with woods on one side and a farm on the other side,. https://goo.gl/photos/jhrkBEYz3czomrzG7

  
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  I saw this summer a nice stand of rose gentian, Sabatia kennedyana, in Plymouth. Do you know of a reliable seed source for this plant?

  
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  If the blackberry is burned,will the roots live and allows germination of blackberries?

  
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  Hello, my name is Jesse. Next to my driveway, I have four small trees/bushes that grow. I know that two of them are rhododendrons but I'm having trouble identifying the other two. They resemble that of a sweet bay or schip laurel, yet when I look closely at the leaves of my trees/bushes, they look apart from those particular trees/bushes. Also, I live in the Connecticut River Valley [in CT] and I've learned that plants such as Sweet Bays are unable to survive our colder winters.

  
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  20 years ago I was working in Falmouth and my boss gave me a cool plant cutting (it was 4' long at the time). I really doubt it's from Cape Cod, but so far nobody has identified it, and every 5-6 years the lower leaves yellow, it gets too long and I have to cut the stalks. Any thoughts???!! I need to understand how to keep this beauty alive and well.

  
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