2011 spring wildflower thread

[nartreb]

Thanks, I clicked through the mint family on the CtBtnclScty site but somehow I missed it. (sometimes the link location shifts and you end up clicking "next white flower" instead...)

 

[cushetunk]

Harder one: damp location and bladelike leaves had me thinking this was an iris, but could it be a lily instead? I wasn't really paying attention to the leaves and didn't get a photo.

That is probably blue flag iris (Iris versicolor), or maybe the non-native yellow iris (Iris psuedocorus). They're both found in wetland habitats.

 

[Elizabeth]

Moosilauke's Gorge Brook Trail, 9/11/11:


Aster, Gorge Brook Trail by Elizabeth W.K., on Flickr

Maybe White Wood Aster (Aster divaricatus)?

 

[Jason Berard]

I was on an island in the CT River this week, and came across these:

alium tricoccum (ramps)

chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen)

Note the silty ground below the wintergreen. This island, which is generally above the flood zone, got almost completely flooded!

 

[Jason Berard]

anyone know what this is?

sorry for the bad photo...looks like maybe in the wintergreen family?
I don't have my Newcomb's handy :-(

 

[arghman]

sorry for the bad photo...looks like maybe in the wintergreen family?
I don't have my Newcomb's handy :-(

looks like a Pyrola (rotundifolia or chlorantha?)

 

[Jason Berard]

Okay, this will likely be the last "spring" wildflower I post for this year!

I know it is a terrible picture, but I'm trying to decide if this was either a Hooker's Orchid, or a Round-leaved orchid (or maybe something else altogether!)....I found this in western NH on the edge of the White Mountains.

 

[audrey]

My guess would be Platanthera orbiculata (large round-leaved orchid). Hooker's doesn't have bracts on the stem. I can't compare sizes, but I'll assume it's not the really large-flowered round-leaved orchid (P.macrophylla) which has flowers about 2" compared to P. orbiculata's 1" flowers.

 

[cushetunk]

Also Hooker's Orchid generally flowers in May/June and I think would be further gone than what you've got there.