Sedge growing in standing water in a swamp. Up to 2 ft. tall. Never in large patches.
Equisetum sylvaticum (wood horsetail), West Greenwich, RI
Carex albursina (white bear sedge), Cumberland, RI
Spicebush? Not a plant I see often. Near a spring within maple swamp
Aletris farinosa (white colic-root), Charlestown, RI
Botrychium matricariifolium (daisy-leaved moonwort), Cumberland, RI
Piptochaetium avenaceum (black-seeded spear grass), Cumberland, RI
Triosteum aurantiacum (orange-fruited horse-gentian), Cumberland, RI
Carex gracillima (graceful sedge), Cumberland, RI
Dichanthelium depauperatum (starved rosette-panicgrass), Cumberland, RI
Could this be a hybrid of R. typhina x R. copallinum ? Many in between traits. Found just before the beach on Snake Island.
Younger growth was fuzzy but not nearly as fuzzy as other Staghorns on the island. New twigs were thinner. Fruits looked unorganized & many drooping. Leaf scar wasn’t completely encircled.
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae (New England American-aster), Griswold, CT
Scleria reticularis (netted nutsedge), Plymouth, MA
Quercus montana (mountain chestnut oak), Cumberland, RI
Aureolaria pedicularia (fern-leaved false foxglove), Voluntown, CT
Panicum verrucosum (warty panicgrass), Voluntown, CT. State Historic. Growing in a 1.2-acre, vernal pool, dry in the summer.
Polygala verticillata (whorled milkwort), Johnston, RI
Gentianopsis crinita (greater fringed-gentian), Johnston, RI
Hypopitys lanuginosa (hairy pine-sap), Johnston, RI