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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 Photo:Alun Williams333 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Second photo from top:
kbarton
Third photo from top:
Stefan.lefnaer / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Fourth photo from top: Rasbak / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0),
Bottom photo: Stefan.lefnaer / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
The mystery plant for August
can be an annual, biennial or perennial.
It grows 3-10” tall and has sessile,
hairy and alternate leaves.
The flowers grow in umbels.
The corolla is blue with 5 petals
which
soon become deeply split into fine segments. The plant is not native,
but can occasionally be seen in RI.
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.
Elizabeth E. Dickson
Nancy Fullerton
Erik Gardner
Alan Newton