Question: From Hanover Center, NH, 12/1: I have been keeping my eye on this little, slow-growing vine-like plant for a number …
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From Hanover Center, NH, 12/1: I have been keeping my eye on this little, slow-growing vine-like plant for a number of years. It grows on the edge of a wet area with partridge-berry, bunchberry, dewdrops, and spruce among other plants and mushrooms. I have never seen it flower, but it is really only in the past year or two that it has put energy into vertical growth.The leaves are about the size of a partridge-berry leaf. Any idea what it might be?
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Dear kasmus.nh, good morning. You have photographed Linnaea borealis (twinflower), a native plant that is most common in northern New England (within the region). It will eventually produce the classic twin flowers on a common stalk that gives this species its name. Best wishes.
