S. sericea seems like a good fit: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242417204
https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/salix/sericea/
Drier site for a willow. Edge of a field in a thin strip of first successional forest that's flanked by mature woods. Disturbed site.
Leaves not decurrent on stem
River shore outcrop habitat
reproductive stems partly green - could this be a cross between E. arvense & sylvaticum? Both are in the area.
Note that many fronds were conspicuously larger than any G. dryopteris I’d seen (though still within range for G. dryopteris according to FNA treatment). The key to this hybrid is the basal pair of pinnules on the 2nd pair of pinnae, which are strongly assymetric, indicative of some G. disjunctum parentage…even though that is a western species. I will return to collect fertile material later this summer (as long as I remember to do so). Habitat was a rich northern hardwood forest on a steep, bouldery, northeast-facing slope at about 1000’ elevation.
The Degraff Property (managed by Winooski Valley Park District)
Cottonwood with numerous Mordwilkoja vagabunda galls.
On Eastern White Pine.
Erupting from the bark of fallen paper birch log
Sreading on decorticated log. 24-63. Leaf shape variable from shallowly lobed to entire. Underleaves deeply bilobed with teeth beneath lobes (seen at top of stem in last 2 photos).
I’m thinking it’s Tilia americana but unsure.
on Apocynum cannabinum. voucher taken (S.B.Robeson #186)
By the snowmaking pond at Cranmore Mt
The Degraff Property (managed by Winooski Valley Park District)
Montshire Museum of Science (both native and non-native species introduced here)
Cobb Town Forest (Strafford)
Tick species ....... cookei
At the Helen W. Buckner Preserve at Bald Mountain
A population where characteristics of S. incurva and S. arcisepala seemed to blend together, with only a few clear examples of the former. Most plants were single-ranked, and only a select few were multiple-ranked.
NOTE: the plants pictured here are among the most similar to S. arcisepala, and may be rightly identified as such.
Growing with both progenitors along the base of a boreal cliff
Area heavily disturbed by flooding.
At Macrae Farm Park
The fungus: this observation
The host plant: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/144528546
Novel Isoetes species collected by Mike and Sharon Rosenthal, being described by Carl Taylor.
New species discovered by @mirosen — thanks for showing me! (we put this plant back into the substrate)
Notice the gradual transition in sporophyll form from strobilus stalk to strobilus.
Annual constrictions visible (unlike D. digitatum), while the strobilus stalk is stouter than that of D. complanatum.
Berberine fluorescent yellow in 365 nanometer UV light
I’ve never seen this before so I’m just selecting what inat suggested.
Identified by Art Gilman. Tetraploid. Hybrid between 3x P. connectilis + 1x some other parent (but not P. hexagonoptera). Triangular pinnules on (some) second pinnae.
Rugg Brook watershed (St. Albans)
Rugg Brook watershed (St. Albans)
Fruiting on small diameter hardwood log. Very small (1-2mm) spines on underside. Slowly bruising smoky grey around cap edge and on underside with handling.
Rare in our area; note in pic (to distinguish from E. arvense):
1) white-margined (vs. black-tipped) sheath teeth
2) scabrous stem
3) more sheath teeth (than E. arvense)
4) deltoid (triangular) branch teeth
This population grows with E. arvense and E. sylvaticum. It has never been observed to be sexually reproductive( to have a spore-bearing cone). I wonder if it could be a hybrid.
More info to distinguish from E. arvense here https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/stevendaniel
At Lucy Mallary Bugbee Natural Area
A wetland off Duclos Rd (Forest Road 298) in the Green Mountain National Forest (known location)
At Snake Mountain Wildlife Management Area
Flowers and leaves on the same stem; spurs not as long as Viola rostrata
Eubranchipus bundyi — male with antenna —
previously identified as bundyi (the only similar VT option) as found at this vernal pool.
Numerous today.
I didn't realize the Mad River had this kind of diversity. What a cool tree!
Fruiting from moth pupa buried in rotting wood.
Fruiting from moth pupa buried in decaying wood.
Best guess but could be wrong, cap was mottled light brown with dark brown splotches and a slightly darker ring of color around the margin. Found growing from a piece of wood, presumably hardwood in a densely mossy area of mixed forest. Spore print was dark purple.