Among Rhode Island Wild Flowers and Native Plants
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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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Photo credits: © Francis R. Underwood 2018
The mystery plant for April 2018
is a twining herbaceous vine with
pinnately compound leaves of 3 leaflets and
flowers with colorful pale purple petals.
This plant has two types of flowers;
the visible flowers are above ground and
the second type of flowers grow underground and produce small edible fruit.
The fruits produced
along the above ground stem have 3 seeds
and the underground fruits
have only 1 seed.
This plant blooms from
mid-July through mid- 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.
Robin Baranowski
Nancy Fullerton
Brian Maynard
