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  • Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)

    ...medicine, fumigant, and insecticide. It is known in traditional medicine for its ability to stop bleeding, and indeed, it contains an alkaloid called achileine that enhances blood clotting. Habitat:...

  • Rubus idaeus (red raspberry)

    ...sterile in their first year, and produce delicious berries in their second year. It is one of the most common species to colonize open sites following logging or fire. Red raspberry is delicious to hu...

  • Leontodon saxatilis (little hawkbit)

    ...having two types of seeds in little hawksbit found that seeds with pappus hairs (hairs at the tip of the seed that aid in wind dispersal) displayed few other characteristics beneficial to colonizing s...

  • Ligustrum obtusifolium (border privet)

    ... Family: Oleaceae Genus: Ligustrum Notes on Subspecies and Varieties: Ligustrum obtusifolium Sieb. & Zucc. var. obtusifolium is known from CT, MA, NH, RI, VT. L. obtusifolium var. suave (...

  • Betula pubescens (downy birch)

    ...to its species name, its twigs are covered in short, stiff hairs. Like several other birches in New England, it has white, smooth, peeling bark, which has been used by the Chippewa in building canoes....

  • Centaurea stoebe (spotted knapweed)

    ...classified New England Distribution and Conservation Status: Distribution: Connecticut: present, invasive, prohibited Maine: present, invasive ...

  • Glyceria grandis (American manna grass)

    ...their attractive panicles. American manna grass has been known to cause cyanide poisoning in cattle. However, the grains are edible, as in other manna grasses (Glyceria). Habitat: anthropogenic (man...

  • Helianthus debilis (weak sunflower)

    ...Helianthus debilis Nutt. var. cucumerifolius Family: Asteraceae Genus: Helianthus Notes on Subspecies and Varieties: Our subspecies is Helianthus debilis Nutt. ssp. cucumeri...

  • Eupatorium perfoliatum (boneset thoroughwort)

    ...variety of medicinal purposes, and European settlers considered it something of a cure-all in the 18th and 19th centuries when they learned of it. An infusion of Eupatorium perfoliatum will relieve co...

  • Liatris novae-angliae (northern blazing star)

    ...Liatris borealis, Liatris scariosa var. novae-angliae Family: Asteraceae Genus: Liatris Notes on Subspecies and Varieties: Our variety is Liatris novae-...