Wildman Woods (second visit) 4/12/04

Each row is a species. Click on the species name in the table below or simply scroll down. Hovering your cursor over the first picture in each row will give you the species name and family. Clicking on each picture will give you an expanded version.

Berberis thunbergii	Cardamine douglassii	Cardamine hirsuta	Diphasiastrum digitatum	Draba verna	Elaeagnus umbellata
Erythronium americanum	Isopyrum biternatum	Lamium amplexicaule	Lamium purpureum	Polystichum acrosticoides	Ribes cynosbati
Stellaria media	Taraxacum officinale	Trillium sessile	Uvularia grandiflora	Viburnum prunifolium	Viola rostrata
Viola sororia

this exotic species is a popular ornamental shrub, but is quite invasive in forests in our region

a mid-sized shrub

note obovate, entire leaves and needle-like thorns

very early flowering (late March/early April), with lightly purple-tinged petals

note sessile, large toothed leaves on the stem, and the heartshaped basal leaves


small agricultural weed	note basal rosette of pinnately compound leaves with similar leaves on stem	flowers small and white, fruit is an elongated silique


scale like leaves (microphylls)	this species is evergreen, and an indicator of nutrient-poor soils	individual with cones (stobili) bearing sporangia


Leaves are all basal and simple. Fruit is an elliptical silicle	Often a tiny plant (2-3 cm) with very small white flowers. Flowers are unusual for the family in having deeply notched petals.

			This species is an invasive exotic and is becoming quite problematic in our region
A tall shrub that from a distance appears silvery	top-side of leaves are green	bottom-side is gray-green due to scurfy pubescence


flower-bearing ramets have two leaves, while sterile ramets have one	leaves are identical to E. albidum


stems are redder than T. thalictroides, and always has 5 petals	species is more clonal than T. thalictroides, and has twice trifoliate leaves (biternate!)


leaves appear to envelope square stem	flowers are slightly longer and more colorful than L. purpureum


purple tinge to bracts at top of inflorescence	a very abundant weed in disturbed sites

Polystichum acrosticoides (Polypodiaceae)

an evergreen fern

sporangia-bearing frond, leaflets are boot-shaped


a small upright shrub with palmately lobed leaves	note dense prickles on stem	pendant flowers


small (3-4mm) white flowers with 5 deeply notched petals, stems creep along ground	2 additional views of this ubiquitous weed


everyone knows this weed	nothing but ray flowers


leaves and flower sessile	sepals not reflexed, leaves ovate


flower hangs down


a treelet	opposite leaves with fine toothing


note spur on back of flower; flower color variable	this species is stemmed (though creeping)


acaulescent: it lacks a stem; all leaves are basal and heart-shaped