by admin | Sep 17, 2009 | Field Trips, NY Flora Association
The tropical storm last Friday threatened to cancel the field trip to Napeague last Saturday but the rain ended by Saturday morning and allowed a group of hardy plant enthusiasts to look at plants in the dunes, swales and salt marsh. The search for Schizaea pusilla...
by admin | Sep 14, 2009 | Plant Identification
From Steve Young: Until the last few years, whenever I saw Virginia creeper-looking leaves I always called it Parthenocissus quinquefolia. Looking through the grape family keys one day I realized that there are actually two common species of Parthenocissus, P....
by admin | Sep 13, 2009 | Fungi
From Steve Young: While climbing up Dial Mountain in the Adirondacks recently my son Alex found these imprints of leaves on the top of a shelf fungus. It looks like they may have landed on the fungus as it was finishing its growth and the imprints were made. This is...
by admin | Sep 10, 2009 | Plant Identification
From Steve Young: Newcomb’s wildflower guide says that Arctium minus, common burdock, has hollow leaf stalks and A. lappa, great burdock has solid leaf stalks. It would be nice if this was consistent so these species could be identified before they flower since...
by admin | Sep 8, 2009 | Rare Plant Surveys
From Steve Young: I searched a powerline in southern Albany County today looking for plants of Blephilia ciliata, downy wood-mint, that were last seen there in 1998. This is only one of three locations in the state for this rare plant. The area was on dry limestone...
