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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-06-2023, 04:52 AM
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Yep, that's Claytonia virginica all right.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-12-2021, 05:29 AM
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Stinging Nettle, look and enjoy the fragrant flowers, but don't touch!
Edit: That is, Cnidoscolus stimulosus, not Uritica dioica, the more widespread plant with the same common name.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-23-2020, 05:57 AM
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Pinesap (Monotropa hypopithys), a saprophytic (and hence non-photosynthesizing) member of the Heath family:
 Pinesap by Jeff, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-06-2020, 02:23 PM
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 Goodyera and Galax by Jeff, on Flickr
Downy Rattlesnake Plantain (Goodyera pubescens)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-23-2020, 10:39 AM
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It's officially spring in the northern hemisphere, so time for this thread to wake up again!
Claytonia virginica, the appropriately-named Spring Beauty:
 Claytonia by Jeff, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-08-2019, 05:06 PM
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Clintonia borealis, I believe. Down here Trout Lily refers to Erythronium.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-28-2019, 11:21 AM
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Looks quite a lot like Hairy Bitter Cress, which is very common (non-native) and an early bloomer. The leaves don't look quite right to me, but maybe it's frost damage.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-03-2018, 05:59 AM
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Tiny flowers of Horse Balm (Collinsonia canandensis) along the Appalachian Trail above Wayah Gap:
 Appalachian summer by Jeff, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-25-2018, 10:08 AM
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Vinca, actually, very nice!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-18-2017, 12:41 PM
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My guess is some species of St. John's Wort (Hypericum).
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-08-2016, 07:45 AM
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Something in the milkweed family. Start with butterfly weed.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-06-2016, 02:23 PM
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An Echium, looks just like Echium vulgare (Viper's Bugloss or Blue Weed), which we have in the US (it's not native here, but was introduced from Europe centuries ago and is now a widespread naturalized plant here).
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-25-2016, 03:23 PM
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No, it's harmless and good fun -- the seed pods "explode" to scatter the seeds. The plant is also known as a poison ivy remedy, but that's questionable.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-25-2016, 09:47 AM
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Yellow Jewelweed (Impatiens pallida). Come back in a month or so and give the seed pods a little squeeze, to learn the reason this plant is also known as touch-me-not.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-26-2016, 04:43 PM
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Some variety of Vinca, I'd guess.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-22-2016, 06:02 PM
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Nice set hangman43, great detail. Looks like you've got all the pine pollen you could wish for, too. :)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-24-2015, 12:35 PM
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Nice image of witch-hazel, not closely related to hazelnut (filbert).
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-28-2014, 05:21 PM
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The last one is Elephant's Foot.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-14-2014, 03:27 PM
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Excellent, so delicate.
Very striking! Nice contrast, and the dewdrops look great.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-14-2014, 12:56 PM
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The flowers resemble Liatris although the leaves seem not to, but there are quite a few varieties.
Would love to see some shots of the Ladies Tresses.
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