Wanted to select Sect Stellulatae but didn’t see that as an available option. This species is reported from this location but some question on whether this might be C. atlantica? @grantfessler
@sedge @ammophila @grantfessler is this yellow birch???
Strongest contender I have seen so far for lupuliformis but probably still lupulina.
Same plant in flower one month earlier: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/174229014
Local fern expert and naturalist Bob Bryant reported finding this species here a few years ago.
Growing at edge of mowed lawn in pioneer cemetery with remnant sand prairie. I suspect this could be C. inops heliophila.
Growing on the margin of a pond directly adjacent to the Middle Fork river. Many dozens of individuals.
Rough count revealed 22 individuals in one population, no other subpopulations found. Exclusively growing on large, polished limestone gravel on riverbank.
Idk the difference between V. palmata and V. triloba or if V. triloba is now a syn for viola palmata.
Found at Forest Glen. The habitat was by a stream in a wooded area. I also found what looks like Monarda clinopodia also growing on a stream bank way down stream from this population. The flower heads of the M. clinopodia were much larger and the flowers were very white with no hint of pink apart from spots on the edge of the corolla lips. May be a new populaion for the species in Illinois?
1/18/2023
Alder leaf buckthorn NATIVE AMERICAN ALDERLEAF
may be smallest mushrooms I have ever seen... growing on old acorn shell
Curious doubled specimen. This is the second one I’ve found.
This species is very similar to C. sericea, but has stones that are flattened, not globoid.
One anthocyanin free plant and the darkest one I have ever seen. About 10 feet apart. Gotta love nature and variation.