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NEWS
Last Updated:
July 24, 2017
The
Amateur
Botanist
Current Article:
Rare Plants of City Park,
Warwick, RI
For past Amateur Botanist
articles, click HERE.
Big River MA
Rare plants found in the
Big River Management Area
RI Ferns
ARIW has teamed up with
Don Lubin to produce an article
about the ferns found in RI.
RI Equisetopsida,
Lycopodiopsida
and Isoetopsida
Horsetails, Club-mosses,
Fir-mosses, Spike-mosses
and Quillworts
Formerly known as
the Fern Allies
RI OrchidsRI Violets
Oddities
References
Who we are
What plant is that?
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Top: Olivier Pichard, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
2nd & 3rd photos: © Katy Chayka,
via Minnesota Wildflowers,
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.inf 4th photo: Patrick J. Alexander, hosted by the USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
Bottom:© Katy Chayka, via Minnesota Wildflowers, https://www.minnesotawildflowers.inf
April’s mystery plant
is an invasive biennial/perennial
from Eurasia. While not fussy
about soil types, it prefers
sunny well-drained meadows
and disturbed sites.
The plant can reach 4 feet in height
with alternate, pinnately divided,
and coarsely toothed leaves.
The leaves have a long petiole that
encircles the stem at the nodes
and are yellowish-green in color.
The yellow, 5-petaled flowers
are small and grow in umbels
that are 4” to 8” in diameter.
Each fruit contains two seeds.
Warning: contact with the sap of this plant can cause sensitivity to sunlight and
result in a burn-like dermatitis.
Stop back next month to find out
what this mystery plant is.
Click here
for last month's mystery plant.
Mystery Plants from
past months, click, here
E-mail your guess to us and,
if you're right, we'll list
your name below.
Congratulations to the following
for correctly identifying
last month's mystery plant.
Emma Brown
Brian Maynard
Wendy Miller
Alan Newton