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Eriophorum gracile (slender cottongrass, slender cottonsedge)
...Graminoids Remaining Graminoids Facts About: Slender cottonsedge is a circumboreal species that inhabits bogs, fens and meadows in all New England states; it is listed as threatened in Massachu...
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Potentilla erecta (erect cinquefoil)
...roots are also medicinal. The plant grows to 1.5 feet (40 cm) tall and produces delicate yellow flowers in May to August. Habitat: anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats) All Characteri...
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Carex deweyana (round-fruited short-scaled sedge)
...Carex Facts About: Round-fruited short-scaled sedge gets its specific name (deweyana) from Chester Dewey (1784-1867), a botanist, educator, and minister in Massachusetts and New York. Habitat...
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Carex flava (yellow-green sedge)
...may get its name from the perigynia (coverings of the seeds), which have a yellow body and a green or yellow beak. It is an obligate wetland species that prefers high-pH sites. Habitat: meadows and ...
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Salix petiolaris (meadow willow)
...is associated with a short lifespan. Many willows (Salix species) have bitter-tasting bark that contains derivatives of salicylic acid, the main compound in aspirin. Habitat: anthropogenic (man-made...
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Hyoscyamus niger (black henbane)
...Non-Monocots Alternate Remaining Non-Monocots Non-Monocots Remaining Non-Monocots Facts About: Black henbane, a widespread weedy species in the deadly nightshade family (Solanaceae), gets ...
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Carex digitalis (slender woodland sedge)
...leaf blade is smooth and hairless, or rough and sandpapery. Scale awn: The carpellate scale does not have an awn (it may have a short point). ...
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Amelanchier arborea (downy servicberry, downy shadbush)
...Leaf blade vein pattern: the main veins of the leaf blade are pinnate (the secondary veins branch off at intervals from the main central vein) and non-arcuate (not arched tow...
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Lycopodiella appressa (appressed bog-clubmoss, southern bog-clubmoss)
...shores and in abandoned borrow pits along the Atlantic coastal plain and the Connecticut River Valley. It gets its name from its very reduced, leaves, that are appressed to the stem. There is a rare h...
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Datura wrightii (sacred thorn-apple)
...noon. All parts of the plant contain narcotic alkaloids, which are poisonous in high doses. Habitat: anthropogenic (man-made or disturbed habitats) All Characteristics: Specific habit...