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?
Tepals orange to red at base, spines present to some extent on nearly all individuals, though some plants are nearly spineless.
Observed in a disturbed area adjacent to a side road with very sandy soil. This area is open and receives full sun.
ID by Jesse Bellemare who show us these plants that have naturalized on the forested slope. Adding more than the usual number of observations to assist with the 2024 Western Mass City Nature Challenge Project. Thanks to fellow iNat folks for any and all ID verifications or comments.
Pubescent perigynia with 2 teeth at the apex. Leaves smooth, hairless. Perigynia with numerous, conspicuous veins. Plants found growing in open, disturbed/previously logged very sandy soil.
collected 4 June 2021 in Beckett, MA but photographed 13 June 2021 in West Boylston. Note the "flags" on the leaf tips, essential to the ID, as well as leaf size and vestiture. Keyed out using Flora NovaeAngliae, Haines 2011. Minnesota wildflowers, of course, has a great photo of leaf tip "flags" versus no flags. https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/flower/howells-pussytoes
UPDATE: Based on the conversation generated by @karro_frost 's similar observation (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/99743999), and the subsequent discovery of this write-up (https://pvfernsociety.org/n/13079/Unusual-Fern-Found), along with @mjpapay 's comments, it looks we have a unusual expression of Polypody virginianum. Fun to get some resolution on this one - Thanks!
I have no idea what this is. There was a small patch growing on coarse talus, mostly covered with Polypody. Perhaps an abnormally cut expression of Polypody?
I'm not sure what this is, but am guessing it is not a typical expression of whichever species it is. Might be a hybrid. I'd love some opinions.
@wernerehl Responding to your 9/15 observation of Greeneochloa coarctata. @margaretcurtin and I collected the pictured plant as Calamagrostis cinnoides in 2016, identifying it with the key of Flora Novae Angliae. Weakley treats Calamagrostis cinnoides as a synonym of Greeneochloa coarctata, but iNaturalist accepts both Calamagrostis cinnoides and Greeneochloa coarctata. Kew’s Plants of the World Online uses Greeneochloa coarctata (treating Calamagrostis cinnoides as a synonym of C. canadensis) so I chose to enter this observation as Greeneochloa.
@janetwright I see you also have observed this species.
Identification provided in the field by @wernerehl, @mcharpentier and Robert Bertin.
Coleataenia longifolia ssp. longifolia (long-leaved redtop-panicgrass), Voluntown, CT. Growing in a 1.2-acre, vernal pool, dry in the summer.
I'm not at all certain but i think this is a good guess.
Bisexual inflorescence, terminal spike entirely staminate, perigynia pubescent without obvious teeth, spikes sessile, scales awnless place this in Acrocystis (Master Key to Carex in Sedges of Maine). Within Acrocystis, the key points to C. communis because the perigynium body is about as wide as long, and the widest leaf is >3mm wide (maybe 3.7mm). However, the perigynium beak is well over 1mm long, the carpellate scales are reddish brown, and the lowest proximal pistillate bract overtops the staminate spike, all of which are wrong for C. communis. Based on the perigynium shape, particularly the beak length, this is C. lucorum despite the wide leaf.
Shiny achene, yes, but not smooth at all, which apparently makes this P. hydropiper and it certainly had a very sharp peppery taste!
White-flowered variant lacking any purple pigments growing near more typical purple-flowered plants.
The only plant living within the understory of a patch of Atlantic white cedar
Seems to be a hybrid between post oak and something else. Plenty of stellate hairs on the underside of the leaf. The acorn cap scales are too bumpy to be pure Post oak and, of course, the leaves are not the right shape for Post oak. This was a clonal but upright 12 ft tall shrub or small tree with bark similar to White oak. With @kaomand
Sandstone crack on northern tier island in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Location obscured.