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cedar-glade · 4 years

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Pearl’s fen, Greene co. OH

Nabalus racemosus

Glaucous leaved hairy topped rattle snake root,

A fen endemic in the southern states and a high PH boreal species in the north, you really only see these in areas of fens where calceric waterlogged gravel beds are with permiated marl like qualities

Symphyotrichum firmum

Smooth swamp aster, taken out of S. puniceum complex due to flower morphology, sparcely pubescent to glaberous stems and ploidy.

two common ones,

Verbesina alternifolia,

Alternate leaf mesic forest wingstem.

Ageratina altissima,

Tall snakeroot, tall milksickness weed,

The plant that cows eat that occasionally cause milk sickness and killed honest Abe’s mom, thanks @locallysourcedtrauma for the history lesson btw.

#Nabalus racemosus #nabalus #symphyotichum #firmum #symphyotrichum firmum #verbesina alternifolia #verbesina #ageratina #ageratina altissima #ohio #wildflowers #botany #nature #naturecore #ecology #plantblr

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cedar-glade · 3 years

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One of the many woodland Symphyotrichum spp. This one is blue flowering, occurs with cordate foliage, leaf section is not offset cordate closer to the petiole like Symphyotrichum urophyllum, and this one is also not aggressively dentate like S. cordifolium or Euribia divaricatus; the Euribia spp. is called white wood aster too, so it may help the issue with coloration of flower. Instead what we have here is Symphyotrichum drummondii, or Drummond’s blue wood aster, and upland wood aster, known for karst preference or dry oak upland forest.

Here it’s along an semi exposed dolostone area with ferrous parental top soil (iron rich clay), growing in sympatry( together) with Solidago flexicaulis (Zig Zag goldenrods), at Clifty Falls State Park, IN.

#solidago flexicaulis #solidago #in #indiana #clifty falls #wildflowers #botany #plantblr #ecology #symphyotichum #symphyotrichum drummondii

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