Observaciones de rwainsley

5 petal white flower. Alternate pinnate leaves. Flower looks a little like Biglow's tobacco except the flower is much shorter lacking the long tube at the base of the petals. The sepals do not have noticeable hairs and neither does the stem. The plant is a vine that wraps the stem around other plants

Floating aquatic plants with geranium like leaves. Has not bloomed since mid summer. I recall a yellow flower but I never spent time looking at the flower. This plant is not migrating westward in large masses like water hyacinth and Mexican water fern are now doing. Floating masses seem to grow into the shore anchoring them unlike water hyacinth and Mexican water fern which are foating freely.

The iris plants are ready to explode their seeds from pods like these. Large yellow blooms flowered in May and are very common and easy to spot when in bloom anywhere along the canals and ponds inside Browns Island. Less common on the shore of the main river channels.

March 29, 2018: about a third of these plants have open blooms. All have flower buds clearly visible.

The clumps of this plant appear all along the canal banks inside Browns Island, but are not much present along the banks of New York Slough.

Probable Lathyrus latifolis common name isperrenislpea or everlasting pea.

Widely spaced plants fairly common all along the shore of the canals inside Browns Island. Rooted back about 2 feet from waters edge at 3 foot tide but may hang over the water.

Rare on Browns Island. Listed only one individual plant located on the north side of the east-west canal just before the large pond. Never noticed this plant previously. Located about 3 feet away from water at 3 foot tide. Flower is bright fire engine red and is very noticeable among all the green stems and leaves.