Growing on a frequently mowed roadside.
Little weed tree at the edge of a road, photographed over several days.
Reminiscent of small skunk cabbages.
Destroyer of sweaters.
The last photo is of a seedling, derived from the plants pictured, photographed a couple of months later.
With developing fruit.
Quercus palustris × rubra, growing with both parent species, which are common at this location.
The last three photos are of fruit from (1) Q. palustris, (2) hybrid, and (3) Q. rubra at this site.
My thanks to Albert Garofalo for showing me this woodland.
Enormous tree for this species, perhaps 60ft tall and 2ft DBH. If it hadn't been flowering, from a distance I might have thought it was an old oak. Last year's infructescence collected off the ground beneath the tree.
Growing in a very dry, frequently mowed roadside lawn.
A weed with potted plants.
Growing wild in a field.
Alnus maritima subsp. georgiensis J.A. Schrad. & W.R. Graves
The third photo compares A. maritima (1) to A. serrulata (2), which were growing together at this site.
My thanks to Joel McNeal for bringing me to this site.
Cultivated tree. The four-season combo pic (last image) made of photos taken in 2014 and 2015.
A weed with potted plants. The fruiting plant pictured here (first two photos) likely is the offspring of this plant from a year earlier:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197883948
The last photo is of a seedling, photographed about four months later, likewise a weed in a pot and probably the offspring of the fruiting plant pictured here.
A weed in a pot, the source seed probably from contaminated potting soil.
Probable descendants of this plant:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197966899
Plant nearly 2 meters tall, a weed in a garden bed, not planted. Thousands of seeds rain down on everything, resulting in many generally unwelcome seedlings (last two photos, taken about six months later).
A weed in a frequently mowed area, near a mature plant of this species.
Germinating as weeds in garden beds and sometimes lawns, usually persisting for up to a couple of years, until they get weeded or mowed out of existence.
Old, cultivated tree, possibly planted over a century ago (as were many of the plantings in this area of the arboretum). Trunk and bark photos (last five) from February 2018.
My thanks to Heather Schibli and Zack Harris for accompanying me to this site.
Walking around on leaves of a shrub of Edgeworthia chrysantha.
Naturally occurring tree in a small woodland remnant.
Leaves abaxially glabrous, pedicels short.
Weedy, shrubby trees growing near the edge of a woodland.
Seedling photographed nearly one year later.
Growing on a frequently mowed roadside.
Chiococca pinetorum in some floras.
My thanks to Roger Hammer for bringing me to this site.
Abundant on fallen branchlets in this area. Galls represented here were beneath the trees shown in the last photo.
A weed in a lawn and garden beds.
Fruiting branches easily available due to a very tropical-storm-like event one day earlier. This tree is a tropical hammock woodland remnant, not cultivated.
Seed photos (last four) taken one week later.
My thanks to Roger Hammer for bringing me to this site.
Naturally occurring tree at the edge of a forest, not cultivated.
Photos of twigs and fruit from three cultivated trees:
Photos taken in January and November 2022.
Two species pictured, (1) Acalypha gracilens; (2) A. rhomboidea. Weeds growing together, photographed in the same few square meters in 2019 and 2021.
Very weedy in garden beds, the edge of a lawn, and with potted plants.
Most photos taken over a couple of months in 2011. Seedling photo from February 2012.
Acalypha gracilens and A. rhomboidea compared here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189657165
A weed in a lawn, garden beds, and with potted plants.
Seedling photo taken about two years later.
Acalypha gracilens and A. rhomboidea compared here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189657165
Creeping along the ground over oolitic limestone and leaf litter, in a microscopic remnant of pine rockland habitat.
A young tree with some acorn cap scales that show signs of introgression with Quercus macrocarpa, but otherwise is a nice example of Q. bicolor due to the long fruit peduncle, leaf shape, peeling bark, and swampy habitat.
Apparently rhizomatous plants growing in damp soil by a woodland pond.
My thanks to Albert Garofalo for showing me this site.
Growing on damp soil at a spot that's normally inundated for at least part of the year.
My thanks to Albert Garofalo for showing me this site.
Growing in moist soil in an open meadow that is becoming less open year after year.
A smelly, puffball-like fungus, growing in somewhat damp soil under oaks and maples.
A sad shrub that kept getting mowed in its small remnant of a natural habitat. My thanks to Ken King for bringing me to this site.
An aggressive, abundant weed in garden beds and also in cracks and gaps in nearby pavement. A few flowering plants under shrubs with inflorescences to about 3ft tall (8th photo). Many of these plants have been herbicided recently but only those in sun have been affected. Numerous juvenile plants and seedlings present (last five photos).