From local ecotype NJ Pine barrens seeds. Thrown down here as an experiment - near their host plant. Took about 5 or 6 years to come up, apparently!
Specimen collected with permit as part of a BioBlitz
Rumored to be a patch found by Canby!
Added to PA iMapInvasives on 7/30/2024.
Culms > 20cm, pistillate scales not purple to midvein, mid-spike staminate scales not acuminate and without toothed midveins
A common ornamental sedge native to central and western Europe. This sedge appears to grow in adventive fashion northwest of Lyme Regis around Holcombe, Devon County, England.
Carex stipata (1), C. annectens (2), and C. vulpinoidea (3). At this site C. annectens generally was growing between a population of C. stipata and a population of C. vulpinoidea, and in some ways was morphologically intermediate between the two.
Peace Valley Nature Center,
Undescribed species
Growing near Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon Co.
CMNH 164 - At least a dozen plants were growing right along the lake. They were all in similar condition.
Seedlings first-year post-fire. Their leaves are very different from older plants.
A note to anyone editing data quality or annotations: This specimen was alive when I collected it, and the data given reflect the time and place when the insect was observed alive.
Please adhere to iNat’s guidelines and do not mark this observation as “captive” or “dead”, as this causes problems for researchers attempting to find species records.
iNat's definition of a "wild" observation explicitly includes "your museum/herbarium specimens that are appropriately marked with date and location of original collection". The data given are the date and location of original capture, and as such, this observation should not be marked as captive. See #5 of the observation FAQ on the forum: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/help#captive
The "dead" annotation should only be used if the organism was dead at the time of the observation. The question of insect specimen annotations has been had on the forums, and specimens which are dead in the photo but were alive at the time of capture should be annotated as "alive", not "dead". See here for discussion:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/annotate-dead-or-alive/17537
Thanks!
This is a new location for this Carex. I am very happy to have found it here.
Plant picture by Chris Leighow from our Alaska road trip
Comparison of stemmy Dichanthelium species commonly found in woodlands, from left to right: D. boscii, D. commutatum var. commutatum, D. commutatum var. ashei, D. dichotomum.
Always a fan of this sedge
Carex disperma (left), Carex trisperma billingsii (right)
Comparison of Carex cephalophora (left) and Carex leavenworthii (right). The spikes are very similar, but the plants are different sizes and the perigynia are shaped differently.
Impaled by a species of juncus in a wet meadow at Unami Creek Park, Bucks Co.
Mid-spikelet scales subulate/awned, reddish brown and shorter than the perigynia; perigynia >4mm long; inflorescence arching
Comparison shots: C. tonsa (left), C. albicans (middle), C. nigromarginata (right). All growing within a foot of each other.
Medley 17669-87
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Observation location and date match the collection information from the specimen.
Along the shoreline area, in a wetter (wetland) area
Listed as a threatened species in New York.
The red ones.
Notice the height of these Okefenokee Hooded Pitcher Plants compared to the alligator. Definitely giants!
©williamwisephoto.com October 28, 2022. Paddling from Suwannee Canal Recreation area, south down the pink canoe trail through Chesser Prairie and Grand Prairie to Monkey Lake and Buzzards Roost Lake.
See and learn more about the incredible Okefenokee at www.okefenokee.photography
Giant willow growing on the edge of an oxbow along Muddy Creek.
aka sharp fruited rush, growing in a degraded upland wetland, tufted erect plants with weakly septate leaves (see red diagnostic arrows). Galls are reported to be caused by Livia maculipennis Fritch. No. 850628014.
See also: https://illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/shfr_rush.html
and
Gleason & Cronquist (1992)
known pop, seems to have responded very positively to increased sunlight penetration
Wavy-lined Emerald Moth; Synchlora aerata; camouflages by attaching bits of flower to itself; PA,
Voucher at Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Characteristic glaucus green leaves and orange rhizomes.
I'm posting 3 "trios" of photos from this patch of low-growing, rhizomatous & cespitose Carex...found by Ellen Uhler on a grassy north-facing slope on San Bruno Mountain. The other two "trios" are here and here.
This first "trio" has the best images, though none of the photos show stigmas, a clear view of male spikelets, or various other characters. Nevertheless, with luck an ID may be possible by Carex cognoscenti (a group which doesn't include me! ;-). The 1st photo here shows the habitus of a culm; the 2nd photo shows a detail of its basal spikes (with pistillate spikelets below, and staminate spikelets above); and the 3rd a detail of the non-basal (i.e. longer-pedunculate) spike.
In the field, Ellen was thinking gestalt & morphology suggested C. brevicaulis or C. rossii were the most promising candidates...though this seemed an unusual location for the latter. (Note that C. rossii is "mostly a mountain species" and there are no records of it from San Mateo County on CalFlora or the California Consortium of Herbaria...the closest record is from northeast of Mt Diablo . On the other hand, C. brevicaulis is a more coastal central CA species, and both CalFlora and the CCH have numerous records from San Mateo County, including some from San Bruno Mountain.
Checking the Jepson eFlora Carex key the plants do seem to have a number of diagnostic characters associated with C. brevicaulis and C. rossii, including:
Leaves glabrous, "peri" (gynia) hairy (Group 2); some or all flowering stems bisexual, with both staminate and pistillate flowers; basal spikelets present; pistillate flower bracts prominently 1(3)-veined; etc.
Below are links for the descriptions of the two species:
C. brevicaulis : Jepson eFlora; FNA
C. rossii : Jepson eFlora; FNA
The two species are separated at couplet 5 of the FNA key. But I'm not clear on how to resolve the choices at that key break...as, on the one hand, in my photos the "bracts of the proximal nonbasal pistillate spikes" appear to exceed the inflorescences (which would suggest C. rossii); whereas on the other hand the pistillate scales mostly "equal or exceed the perigynia" (suggesting C. brevicaulis).
This is the 2nd of three "photo trio" posts documenting a patch of low-growing Carex on a north-facing slope of San Bruno Mountain. (One point of this post is to illustrate how easy it can be to overlook the presence of diagnostic flowering spikes for this Carex in the field!)
The 1st photo of this series shows the densely rhizomatous & cespitose growth habit of the patch. The 2nd photo is a detail from below-right-of-center in the 1st photo...where, with effort, one can make out culms with basal spikes at lower left and two longer-pedunculate spikes a bit to the right. The 3rd photo is identical to the 2nd, but includes pink arrows to the basal & pedunculate spikes.
My best shot at the species ID here is either C. brevicaulis or C. rossii. For further details...see remarks under this companion post.
plucked goldfish from small, litter-strewn retention pond near NE Philly airport
Growing near the edge of a wetland, standing water surrounds area. Found growing within a patch of swamp loosestrife & swamp milkweed. Leaves were glossy and underside was a paler shade of green, but not terribly different from top of leaf.
Growing in open gravel site along small ephemeral stream, Monroe Co.
Approx. five feet tall!