Author Topic: A few more woodland flowers/plants in NB (Read 2961 times)

SwampDonkey · « **on:** June 14, 2008, 07:51:53 am »

I think we have identified most of these before.

#1

#2

#3

#4

There are two little flowers at the bottom (light pink) and one off to the top left of the picture. They are attached to that orange fringed plant. That's as tall as the plant grows and it has runners like strawberry. Edible to.

#5

#6

#7

#8

#9

There is a fruit stalk to the right of the top leaf, kinda turned black. Hard to see.

Timburr · « **Reply #1 on:** June 16, 2008, 07:03:38 pm »

Time to get this thread rolling eh?

#1 Fireweed/Rosebay willowherb.

#4 Stone bramble Rubus saxatilis

#8 Yellow ladyslipper orchid Cypripedium calceolus

The rest I'm working on, or should say, hav'nt gotta clue!

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #2 on:** June 17, 2008, 04:47:06 am »

#1 nope, leaves are clasping and stock is round and hairy on this one.

I'm not sure of the species yet of #1 and #2, but they strongly favour the sunflower/aster family in my mind's eye.

#4 It is a Rubus, known as dwarf raspberry R. pubescens.

#8 Yes, provincial flower of N.S.

#9 is a type of fern.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #3 on:** June 17, 2008, 03:48:51 pm »

Jeff probably has # 9 in small openings on his woodlot.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2008, 04:12:49 am »

I've got one more sample to add in here today. It's a herb with a small range, but it grows in NB and in a handful of US states. It's under my feet in a section I'm thinning out. Looks kinda like poison ivy leaf.

But, not exactly or I'd be blistered and lamb basted.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2008, 02:18:39 pm »

#10

Here is the plant and I haven't a clue. It grows by rhizomes I think because it was covering a large area of 20 m wide in under mixed growth of aspen and sugar maple and ash. The ground has rich soil and no surface stones. The kind of stuff out of the bag. It was a couple feet tall. It's not the plant I thought from this morning.

It's not bane berry and not poison ivy, no vine or oily hairs.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #6 on:** June 20, 2008, 07:50:28 pm »

This plant is not in any book I have. $:-\$ It seems to be doubly serrate and lobed somewhat. Quite a difference in the basal leaves and the top leaves. They are in a whorled arrangement coming off one point on the stem as you can see. The stem is hairless, round and succulent.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2008, 05:04:53 am »

#5 is edible, but be sure to cook the root before eating or your mouth will be on fire far worse than any chilly pepper you ever ate.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2008, 05:30:04 am »

# 3 is a very deceptive little plant. Those white parts are not petals of a flower, they are sepals and the tiny flowers are in the centre.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #9 on:** June 25, 2008, 12:53:32 pm »

Been finding the odd butternut seedling around our current thinning site. None have been taller than 3 feet so far. There is a small clump of mature ones about 1/4 mile away along a nearby road.

And of all things to find on a hardwood site is mountain holly. That's usually a swamp or bog shrub. They must have seeded in by birds from along the lower Guizaquit Brook, which isn't far away.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #10 on:** June 29, 2008, 08:51:24 am »

Well here are some answers:

#3 bunch berry

#5 Jack-in-the-pulpit

#6 spotted touch-me-not / jewel weed

#7 false Solomon's seal

#9 sensitive fern

Timburr · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2008, 07:46:02 pm »

SwampDonkey, hate to see you goin' this thread alone, so I've invited myself in!

Are you any closer to identifying #1, 2 and 10 yet?

Could #1 be Anaphalis margaritacea? Or it could belong to genera solidago, gnaphalium, senecio (fluviatalis?) or even an inula? It looks well stipule-ated with a distinct lack of a petiole. Are the leaf margins entire or serrate and what's it's vein structure like?

#10 looks like a possible candidate for the Rosaceae family. An odd one. I've never seen anything like it!

We'll let #2 develop!

Lanier_Lurker · « **Reply #12 on:** July 01, 2008, 07:45:20 am »

Quote from: Timburr on June 30, 2008, 07:46:02 pm

SwampDonkey, hate to see you goin' this thread alone, so I've invited myself in!

Unfortunately, I am forced to lurk on this thread because I have no clue about any of them.

jon12345 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 01, 2008, 02:31:55 pm »

I think #2 is a baby joe pye weed

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #14 on:** July 02, 2008, 04:28:59 am »

Quote from: Timburr on June 30, 2008, 07:46:02 pm

Are you any closer to identifying #1, 2 and 10 yet?

No, I can't find any these in my books. I did send a link to this page about # 10 to a couple folks involved in ecology and botany. No replies yet.

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Could #1 be Anaphalis margaritacea? Or it could belong to genera solidago, gnaphalium, senecio (fluviatalis?) or even an inula? It looks well stipule-ated with a distinct lack of a petiole. Are the leaf margins entire or serrate and what's it's vein structure like?

#1 is pubescent above and below and on stem. You can se a rather large mid-rib. It looks like the plant grows at least 4 feet tall, maybe taller. Not solidago. The stem was at least 1 cm thick when the picture was snapped.

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#10 looks like a possible candidate for the Rosaceae family. An odd one. I've never seen anything like it!

No clue here, have a link sent out to a couple folks as stated above.

Quote from: jon12345 on July 01, 2008, 02:31:55 pm

I think #2 is a baby joe pye weed

No, I had thought it could be at one time but there are some Joe-pie near by and the plant looks different. The picture was taken in wetland though. But, since then I have seen them in the back yard. I seem to recall some kind of blue flowered aster coming off them in years past. Will have to wait another month for the flowers I guess. The red tinged young leaves tell me they are something of color other than the common yellows and whites of a lot of wild flowers here.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #15 on:** July 03, 2008, 01:59:02 pm »

Went out today with the camera for a few more pictures of plant # 10.

Dodgy Loner · « **Reply #16 on:** July 03, 2008, 03:52:42 pm »

It certainly looks Rosaceaey to me. Flowers would be infinitely helpful, as always.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #17 on:** July 03, 2008, 05:22:21 pm »

I was leaning more between Araliaceae and Apiaceae. Sure would like to see that flower.

Timburr · « **Reply #18 on:** July 03, 2008, 05:44:15 pm »

There is a need to retract my original supposition of Rosaceae. I'm channelled more towards Apiaceae.

DanG it S.D. you posted whilst I was researching on your behalf.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #19 on:** July 03, 2008, 05:48:07 pm »

It seems to grow like Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum' . We call it Snow on the mountain, but it's a different species.

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