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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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to view larger image.
Top photo: Courtesy Stephanie Brundage,
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Center two phototos:
©David G. Smith,
http://www.delawarewildflowers.org
Bottom photo: Courtesy Bennie Bengston,
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
The mystery plant for January 2021
is an herbaceous perennial,
which grows up to eight feet tall.
This plant produces green to
yellow-green, six-petaled flowers
which produce bluish to purple berries.
The flowers are fetid.
This plant is dioecious and
male and female shrubs grow separately.
The alternate, entire leaves,
which produce tendrils near the base,
are thin and glabrous with veins
following the contour of the
somewhat rounded edges of the leaves.
The peduncles with flowers
grow axillary to the leaves.
This plant blooms from the
middle of June to late July.
It grows along wetlands and swamps.
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.
Marco Arcand
Emma Brown
Max Fontes
Brielle Michener
Wendy Miller
Justin Moore
Elvis Morales
Mia Ray
Elaine Toribio
Matt Zucconi