Plant ID help

[NH_Mtn_Hiker]

Forget the Mulberry...

There are several northeastern trees with catkins similar to those.

How about going back and getting us a good pic of the leaves.

 

[nartreb]

Well I couldn't photograph the leaves because they were still budding. Maybe next week.

After some searching through my book I think the catkins belong to some kind of alder - that's the only genus I can find that produces the right kind of conelike structures. Also photos I've found of the catkins look like a good match (they're certainly not birch catkins).

 

[audrey]

#4 - chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)?

 

[nartreb]

Yep, chokecherry looks good for #4.

Anybody want to take guesses at #3?

 

[NH_Mtn_Hiker]

#3 Blossoms...Serviceberry, I think it's also called Juneberry.

 

[nazdarovye]

OK - here's another one; grows in wet ground after the snow melts in the Sierra Nevada and Snow Mountain Wilderness (probably elsewhere too - but that's where I have seen masses of it):

 

[audrey]

Nazdarovye,
Looks like a false hellebore (Veratrum) but not enough information to tell which species. Californicum is the western variety, but our eastern species viride also grows in California.

 

[nazdarovye]

Ah - aka California Corn Lily. Thanks - that could be it; if so, it grows out a stalk with flowers, and I caught it early on in the season.

 

[Neil]

How about this one ? It's a shrub that was growing in the understory in the ADK's. Mid-May.

 

[Pat T]

It looks like Hobblebush which is a viburnum.

Try this link for more info.

Pat T

 

[arghman]

#3 Blossoms...Serviceberry, I think it's also called Juneberry.

yup, although which Amelanchier species is anybody's guess.

the one with the catkins is almost certainly an alder (Alnus sp) which have catkins that persist (vs. birches which disintegrate). If the leaves are out, another clue is that the leaves are sort of folded/corrugated along the veins.

 

[Trudy]

Catkins plus cones: My guess would be seaside alder.

 

[nartreb]

2 more:

http://www.summitpost.org/image/320780/207615/wildflower.html

http://www.summitpost.org/image/320779/207615/wildflower.html

 

[vegematic]

First one: Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)


Second one: Not sure. My first thought was that it reminded me of Wild Basil (Clinopoddium vulgaris) or Heal-all (Prunella vulgaris), both mints. But it isn't exactly either of those two.

-vegematic

 

[Tom Rankin]

2 more:

http://www.summitpost.org/image/320780/207615/wildflower.html

http://www.summitpost.org/image/320779/207615/wildflower.html

Laurie says the 2nd one is Turtlehead, aka Chelone glabra.

See here for another example.

 

[nartreb]

Thanks again!

 

[bikehikeskifish]

From Isolation on 8-22-2007

Can any of you put a definitive name to these?


Daisy or some sort?, perhaps a Vegematic?


These would appear to be the same

Thanks,
Tim

 

[Pat T]

Not sure about being "definitive" but the first picture might be an aster. The asters are blooming now and there are many different ones.

The second photo looks like a Turtle Head.

Pat T

 

[Danielle]

I agree with Pat T on the second photo. I have a Turtle Head plant blooming in my garden right now that looks exactly like your photo.

 

[arghman]

Not sure about being "definitive" but the first picture might be an aster. The asters are blooming now and there are many different ones.

The second photo looks like a Turtle Head.

correct on both counts (I think!). To ID the particular aster species, though, you'd need to look at a bunch of things, like leaf shape (incl. whether it is toothed along the edge or whether it clasps the stem), roughness of leaves, hairiness of leaf/stem, etc.

the only other thing it could be is a fleabane (Erigeron sp.) but those usually have more rays than the one in the picture (your picture shows a ray count around 30-40 or so, fleabanes can have 100).