Large plant (3 m) growing at the edge of the willow swamp at the N end of Egg Lake, on our property. This is the first plant of this sp. we’ve seen at the lakes but there could of course be more. Keyed out in the Vaccinium key in H&C2018.
On the edge of Egg Lake. Linda P keyed it out as divaricatum using the new Hitchcock and Cronquist.
Ran thru the Valerianaceae key in H&C2018. P. brachystemon begins blooming several week after congesta begins. The two are visually easily distinguished, and brachystemon grows much larger under optimal conditions. The flowers of brachystemon are smaller and pale pink whereas those of congesta are dark fuscha pink. There are no intermediate plants among the fields of millions of congesta. Brachystemon is much less common, but not rare and forms its own colonies amongst the sea of congesta.
Run thru Rubiaceae key in H&C2018.
Ran thru Collinsia key in H&c2018.
Linda ran the specimen through Caryophyllaceae key in Hitchcock and Cronquist 2018.
Ran thru Fragaria key in H&C2018
Ran thru Apiaceae key in H&C2018.
Very rare pale form of congesta. One out of hundreds of thousands.
Identified by means of Lysimachia key in H&C 2018.
Keyed out to R repens in H&C2018.
We keyed it out using the Apiaceae key in H&C2018.
Keyed out to Vicia hirsuta using Fabaceae key in H&C 2018.
Keyed to T microcephalum using Trifolium key in H&C 2018. Our plant had a hairy calyx and involucre.
Subspecies either gracilis or holosericea, both native.
Growing in dry coniferous forest. Common. Keyed out to A madioides in H&C2018.
Keyed out in H&C2018.
Keyed out to P major using the plantago key in H&C2018.
Keyed out to T arvense in H& 2018, but note that flowers seem proportionately small. Awns straight collected. No involucre bracts. Specimen collected. Might actually be T japonica.
Keyed out to S asper using Sonchus key in H&C2018, but we didn’t key it to genus. A familiar weed.
Keyed out to Sium suave using Apiaceae key in H&C2018. This plant from our headland at Goose Landing.