Question: Good afternoon, I hope I am not breaking any etiquette by re-asking a question, or whether I should be using …
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Good afternoon, I hope I am not breaking any etiquette by re-asking a question, or whether I should be using other means, but I wanted to clarify on the plant I wanted to make sure was Aegopodium podagraria, with its white summer umbels. The plant is found abundantly in the willow copse, although it is scattered all over the riverbanks: in a wood of boxelder and black locust, over a meadow of sedges and joe pye weed, and so on. For a more precise location: Mettowee Valley of S. VT. Thank you.
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Dear ljalos, good afternoon. No, you are not breaking any etiquette. However, I won't be able to provide you an answer that is any more confident than the one I gave before. The young, expanding leaves do look like Aegopodium podagraria, but the only way to be certain would be to have a close-up of the fruiting arrays (the two styles at the tips of the ovary curve backward and down the ovary, a trait that is peculiar to this species). In the meantime, I can only state that your images are consistent with Aegopodium podagraria.
