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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
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What plant is that?
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All photos: © Peter M. Dziuk,
via Minnesota Wildflowers,
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.inf
This month’s mystery plant is rare in RI.
Its stems are 10-30 inches tall
and are densely hairy.
The leaves are compound and
alternate along the stems and
these are divided into 10 -25 leaflets
which are hairy, and ½ to 1 inch long.
The flowers are terminal and have 5 petals which are ¾ inch long.
They are usually bicolored.
The standard is yellow to ochroleucus and the wings and the keel pink.
The seed pods are long and numerous.
This plant grows in fields, and
open woods in usually sandy soil.
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.
Nadine Alvarez
Emma Brown
Brian Maynard