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Calico aster (Aster lateriflorus). Fall, Mine Falls Park.
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Calico aster (Aster lateriflorus). Fall, Mine Falls Park.
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Calico aster (Aster lateriflorus). Fall, Mine Falls Park.
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Leaf of a fern turning yellow in autumn. Fall, Mine Falls Park.
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Blossom of a smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) setting seed. Fall, Mine Falls Park.
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Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) in fall. The two structures that look like pointy cucumbers are the seed pods. They will soon split open, releasing hundreds of fluffy seeds. Fall, Mine Falls Park.
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Calico aster (Aster lateriflorus). Early fall, Mine Falls Park.
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Calico aster (Aster lateriflorus). Early fall, Mine Falls Park.
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Looking north across the big meadow north of Crawford Notch. The forest beyond is a typical mix of green spruce and oak with blazing red beech, while most of the birches have already lost their leaves. In the meadow are wilted black-eyed Susans, lupines, and goldenrods holding their seeds until the winter winds scatter them. Early fall, White Mountain National Forest.
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Calico aster (Aster lateriflorus). Late summer, Arethusa Falls Trail, Crawford Notch State Park.
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Some sort of fly or perhaps a wasp on a stiff aster (Aster linariifolius). Late summer, Arethusa Falls Trail, Crawford Notch State Park.
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Some sort of fly or perhaps a wasp on a stiff aster (Aster linariifolius). Late summer, Arethusa Falls Trail, Crawford Notch State Park.
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Calico aster (Aster lateriflorus) and showy goldenrod (Solidago speciosa). Summer, Mizpah Springs Hut, White Mountain National Forest.
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Calico aster (Aster lateriflorus). Summer, Crawford Path, White Mountain National Forest.
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Smooth Solomon's seal (Polygonatum biflorum) in fruit. Summer, Crawford Path, White Mountain National Forest.
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Sweet goldenrod (Solidago odora). Late summer, Mine Falls Park
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Water milfoil (Myriophyllum sp.) raises its little white flower above the Mill Pond. I'm not certain, but this plant, the most common large plant in the Mill Pond and the Nashua Canal, is probably an invasive species. Mallards eat it, and fish fry use it as cover, but it nearly chokes the pond, especially in the latter half of summer when it blooms. The thousands of tiny floating leaves are duckweed (Lemna minor), which may be the most common small plant in the pond. Summer, Mine Falls Park
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A huge patch of pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) in a shallow bay of the Mill Pond. Summer, Mine Falls Park
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Smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) in bloom. Summer, Mine Falls Park
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Blue flag (Iris versicolor) on the edge of the Mill Pond. There are many stands of "feral" iris, escaped from cultivation and reverting to a wild state, throughout Mine Falls Park, but this is the true ancestral wild form. Late spring, Mine Falls Park
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Purple trillium (Trillium erectum) in bud. Spring, Arethusa Falls Trail, Crawford Notch State Park
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Many meadow flowers hold their seeds all winter, dropping them in the spring. I don't know the species of these. Late winter, White Mountain National Forest
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Many meadow flowers hold their seeds all winter, dropping them in the spring. I don't know the species of these. Late winter, White Mountain National Forest
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Pink ladys slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) almost ready to bloom, surrounded by budding Canada mayflowers (Maianthemum canadense). Spring, Mine Falls Park
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Pink ladys slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) almost ready to bloom, surrounded by budding Canada mayflowers (Maianthemum canadense). These orchids are rather rare in Mine Falls Park. Spring, Mine Falls Park
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Painted trillium (Trillium undulatum). Notice the rippled leaves and petals that give this plant is scientific name. Spring, Arethusa Falls Trail, Crawford Notch State Park
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Purple trillium (Trillium erectum). Spring, Arethusa Falls Trail, Crawford Notch State Park
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A steep hillside overlooking the narrow west end of the Mill Pond is covered with great laurel (Rhododendron maximum) and young maples (Acer sp.). Great laurel is one of the most common shrubs in the wooded areas of Mine Falls Park, but it is only conspicuous when it blooms in spring and summer, and when its leathery leaves are the only green thing in the forest understory in the dead of winter. Late spring, Mine Falls Park Downloaded 183 Times.
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The Beaver Brook area has more thoroughly mixed groundcover than most places I know. Instead of a wide swath of one plant here and another there, all types of plants are everywhere! In this picture, we see New Hampshire's ubiquitous Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense), Beaver Brook's equally ubiquitous partridge berry (Mitchella repens), numerous fringed polygala (Polygala panicifolia), and quite a few other small plants. Spring, Beaver Brook Trail, Beaver Brook Association, Hollis, NH Downloaded 405 Times.
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Mixed undergrowth on the sunlit northern bank of Bemis Brook above Arethusa Falls, including stiff aster (Aster linariifolius), bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis), hobblebush (Viburnum alnifolium), and numerous ferns and grasses, late summer, Crawford Notch Downloaded 148 Times.
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Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), an aggressive invader, but rather beautiful. It grows everywhere that could be called moist, from the soggy margins of a pond to the low dips in a meadow, and has become one of the most common flowers in New England. Summer, Mine Falls Park Downloaded 103 Times.
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An aquatic flower garden, including pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) soft rush (Juncus effusus) and common cattail (Typha latifolia), summer, Mine Falls Park Downloaded 304 Times.
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Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora), a very odd flowering plant that does not photosynthesize, but gets all its nutrients from fungi, summer, Mine Falls Park Downloaded 102 Times.
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Smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) in bloom, summer, Mine Falls Park Downloaded 198 Times.
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Orange jewelweed (Impatiens capensis), also known as touch-me-not. Notice the peculiar way the flower grows. The stem is attached near the front of the flower, and the narrow base of the flower just ends in mid-air. Also, the flower stalk branches off from a leaf stalk rather than being directly attached to the plant's main stem or branches. The yellow or pale jewelweed (I. pallida) that lives farther south also grows in this odd way. Summer, Mine Falls Park Downloaded 138 Times.
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A field of lupines (Lupinus perennis). Some are white when they first open, passing through pink before they become purple. Early summer, Crawford Notch Downloaded 113 Times.
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Patch of wood sorrel (Oxalis montana). This is the native North American type. The common wood sorrel on your lawn or in your city park is more likely O. europaea, an invasive form. Early summer, Crawford Notch Downloaded 169 Times.
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Oxeye daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum), early summer, Crawford Notch Downloaded 179 Times.
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