Question: Hi: These plants are growing in a jeep and snowmobile trail, alongside a Central Maine Power Company transmission line corridor …
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Hi: These plants are growing in a jeep and snowmobile trail, alongside a Central Maine Power Company transmission line corridor in Sidney, Kennebec County, Maine. They are uphill from a small wetland area. The plants and flowers are small, and growing in full sunlight. Other plants in the area include asters, purple loosestrife, goldenrod, sedges and grasses. Don
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Dear DonLemieux, good morning. The plant pictured is Penthorum sedoides (ditch-stonecrop), a native wetland plant in the ditch-stonecrop family. It has flowers similar to the saxifrage family, but with more carpels (5-7 instead of 2). Best wishes.
