ljardin29's Identifications

The abaxial surface of the leaves and the stem are markedly pubescent. The base of the leaves are minorly clasping.

This specimen was found at the edge of an overgrown mesic field, in the shadows of pines and other trees.

Tall herbaceous plant (~ 0.5m) with a self-supporting stem and bright yellow flowers. Flowers have many filaments and anthers (> 10). Flowers have 5 sepals that are green (sepaloid), with very fine white hairs. The sepals are not longer than petals. Flowers have 5 yellow petals (flower diameter is 20 mm; petal length is 10 – 12 mm). Cyme-like inflorescence. Leaves are distinct, simple and palmately lobed with small white hairs on them (leaves appear to be more deeply lobed towards the tip of the plant).

Small herbaceous plant with raceme (plant is ~ 30 cm tall, inflorescence is 6.5 cm). Fruit is present (red berry). Berries are 8 mm wide. Two alternate leaves with parallel veins (1 distinct main vein down the middle). Leaf shape is cuneate with no stalk (wraps around the stem). Leaf blade length is 10 - 12 cm and lacks hairs on the underside of the leaf.

Small herbaceous plant (between 20 - 30cm tall) with showy purple flowers. Flowers have deep purple/blue tips with distinct fringe and 4 petals (corolla length between 2 - 4 cm). Leaf width is not more than 1cm (between 0.5 – 1cm ). The base of the flowers range from white to deep purple, with deep purple vertical stripes. Some of the petals are “open”, revealing 4 yellow anthers/filaments, and 2 connate carpals. Some flowers remain closed. Large green sepals surround the petals, but are never longer than the petals. Opposite leaves through the entire stem, most of which are green with deep purple tip. Plant is growing in sparse clusters (between 3-10 plants in nearby vicinity). The length of the calyx is between 2 - 2.3cm long and flower length is between 3 - 3.5cm.

Plant found in a small forested area.

Flowers growing in clusters, 5 small white petals.

Disk flowers

Long stigma extending far beyond corolla.

Opposite, simple, large serrated leaves, leaf tip from apiculate to aristate.

This plant was located in a small forested area in a rural village.

This species contains yellow disk florets, but no evident ray flowers in the capitulescence. Green sepals are present.

The leaves are once pinnately compound with strong toothed edges, green in colour.

Glabrous