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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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Upper two photos: © Francis R. Underwood 2018
Bottom photo by Franz Xaver [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], from Wikimedia Commons
The mystery plant for October
is a sticky-stemmed, 1-2 (3) feet tall
perennial not native to RI.
The leaves are rather small,
punctate and finely toothed.
The flowers have bright yellow rays and
also yellow discoid flowers.
The floral bracts are strongly recurved.
In RI this plant grows in waste areas
and also on the sandy shoreline
of theProvidence River
well above the high tide line.
Despite the sticky stems this plant is quite attractive when in bloom.
This plant blooms from
July through September.
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.
Brittany Amaral
David A. Christie
Hannah Dallas
Nancy Fullerton
Nicole Hagan
Zachary Hulmes
Allyson Lague
Brian Maynard
Krista Noe
Justin Purcell
Jessica Rizzo
Conner Rose
Carlee Wadding
Anne Wagner