by admin | Jan 11, 2011 | Rare Plant Surveys
Will this be the new way to get around lakes and ponds to spot that elusive pondweed? A sighting at Lake George can’t be far away....
by admin | Jan 8, 2011 | Plant Sightings, Rare Plant Surveys, Rare Plants
From Kim Smith – NY Natural Heritage State Parks Botanist This was an exciting year for botanical discoveries in New York state parks. Everyone heard about the federally-threatened Isotria medeoloides (small whorled pogonia) that turned up in Orange County in...
by admin | Sep 27, 2010 | Rare Plant Surveys
From Steve Young, NY Natural Heritage. In August and early September I searched grassland habitat on Long Island for Sandplain Gerardia, Agalinis acuta. There are only a few sites left on Long Island for this federally endangered plant but some new sites have been...
by admin | Sep 5, 2010 | Rare Plant Surveys
Steve Young, New York Natural Heritage Program – During our last week of searching Steuben and Allegany Counties for the federally threatened Northeastern Bulrush we did not find any additional populations but we encountered good habitat dominated by other...
by admin | Aug 21, 2010 | Plant Sightings, Rare Plant Surveys, Rare Plants
From Steve Y0ung, NY Natural Heritage Program – This federally-threatened plant is known from Virginia north to Vermont. Learn more about it at the Center for Plant Conservation website HERE. In New York, there was only one historical collection, from the...
by admin | Aug 12, 2010 | Field Trips, Rare Plant Surveys, Taxonomy
From Steve Young – NY Natural Heritage Program. In New York two varieties of Viburnum dentatum are found, var. lucidum, northern arrowwood, also called Viburnum recognitum in some books, and var. dentatum, southern arrowwood. Viburnum dentatum var. dentatum is found...
