A couple clumps
Using this ID as a place holder. I remember thinking this was a fern-leaved plant (but not a true fern) when I first saw this but can’t remember the reason now.. maybe a weak stem from the base. Could be an escaped garden plant. Looking for inputs
mid-stem leaves in comparison photo: S. flexicaulis (L), hybrid (centre), S. caesia (R). Lower stem leaves of hybrid were broader, with obvious lateral veins (see e.g., plant at bottom left of photo 1)
Could this be C. annectens? Stem longer than leaves, however this path has been mowed before. I think the spike looks more like C. vulpinoidea
Calyx lobes approximately 2mm long
Found on gravelly/sandy shore.
I'm unfamiliar with this species and would appreciate input from others as it has not been posted on iNaturalist in Ontario to-date and not recognized by NHIC, to the best of my knowledge. I used MFO to arrive at the identification.
Did not have the strongly curled lower leaves of D.spicata. Inflorescence branches ascending. Leaves approx. 2.5mm wide and scabrous. Spikelets purplish. Lemmas pilose on margins and at base, and glabrous on the back, and 5mm long.
Drainage ditch into Speed River.
Stipules without united margin forming a tube, spike axillary. Distinct border along midrib? @g_buck ?
Roadside ditch adjacent to creek and large patch of reed canary grass
All of the wild gingers (Asarum canadense sensu lato) I was able to find throughout this sandy floodplain forest had glabrous, short-acuminate, strongly reflexed petals like this plant. I am not sure how widespread this variety is in Canada, but certainly is expected to be Carolinian in distribution.
WDV 255 (to UWO).
Only one individual found, growing in the centre of the trail.
Carex viridula featured on the right. This photo is a convenient comparison of three members of section Ceratocystis, all growing in association with one another on the mineral sand shorelines of an alkaline lake. Carex cryptolepis is in the middle; C. flava on the left.
Comparison of Bartonia virginica (B.v.) and B. paniculata (B.p.) found in different microsites of the same wetland complex in Muskoka District, Ontario.
B.v:
B.p.:
A very strange maple with leaves overall A. saccharum shaped but densely pubescent on abaxial surfaces and petioles. Doesn't resemble the black maples (A. nigrum) I'm familiar with from rich bottomlands in the Carolinian zone, which have leaves pubescent on both surfaces with shallow sinuses and blunt lobes.
Growing in shallow soil over limestone bedrock in a degraded treed alvar-like community.
Massassauga Point Conservation Area, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.
Truly stumped by this one. Vaguely leptalea-ish, with single erect spike and narrow leaves, growing in a boggy roadside ditch adjacent to Black Spruce bog. ~19 perigynia in each spike.
Achene tubercle longer than wide, lowest scale wraps >75% around culm.
Rich upland Acer saccharum forest on stony soil. Rare.
Single patch of 8 plants in rich, sandy forest. Growing with lots of garlic mustard.