Favoritos de karro_frost

-pics 1,2,3,4 are from 7/1/2024.
-pics 5,6,7 are the same individual plants from 7/1/2023.
-pic 8 is the hibernaculum 10/4/2023.
-biggest sundews i’ve seen at location. i frequent this location, and am well-familiar with Drosera. this one always makes me wonder.
-it is far more robust and taller than surrounding intermedia, and rotundifolia. could this be characteristic ‘hybrid vigor’?
-location obscured. message me!

I waited for confirmation from 2 professionals before posting this. The Tall Beech ferns are scattered amid various patches of P. connectilis along the same road.
The last photo of the fern with a paper background is the largest of the 4 we sampled that day. It was hard to see how long the stipe was without pulling it out of the mass of ferns.
My husband Randy and I found these in one of our favorite places.

Four plants present. A few have been at this location for at least the past several years. The four plants ranged from about 6 to 8 feet tall. Two of the four had a large individual Black Swallowtail caterpillar (see photo #7), and at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/226566895 .

I use this genus & species name but wonder if it is actually something different? The leaves are very similar to the pink, but they are all about half the height, and seem to have a slightly but consistent difference in shape of flower with the large open hole in the front of the pouch.
Any ideas on ID?

@karro_frost @natemarchessault thank you again for letting me come with you!

This belonged to a patch growing in drier conditions next to pitch pine and eastern white pine.

See also:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/214663832
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/214663835

Lycopus rubellus (stalked water-horehound), Middleborough, MA. State Endangered.

The fruits have long narrow sepals exceeding the fruit; the fruits are flat across the top; the plants have tubers on long runners.

Setaria parviflora (knotroot foxtail), Haile Farm, Warren, RI. Special Concern. A new EO.

The plants are perennials with bumpy, knotty rhizomes. Our only native foxtail, our only perennial foxtail.