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  1. manumuskin

    My first Orchid of the season

    such beautiful ovaries!
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    Manchester re-zones for development

    i was just driving down Hunters mill rd an hour ago and was thinking of all the unprotected private woods in the area and how they could potentially be destroyed but someone greedy for a dollar.maurice river has some big woods,a little more oak then the barrens but just as big as the barrens...
  3. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjorgs/6047148388/ AGHHH!!
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    Another 5AM outing

    all that head banging and I already know what cotton grass is but have only seen white.That stuff is in all the old cranberry bogs down here bu it is white.
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    Another 5AM outing

    http://saratogawoodswaters.blogspot.com/2010/07/ice-meadows-in-bloom.html Oji is right! The tawny species.don't know if thats particular to the barrens or not?
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    Another 5AM outing

    cotton grass is a sedge according to what I'm reading and as Tom says it is a sedge but called a grass but that pic Guy took looks like no cotton grass I have seen.We have a lot of cotton grass in bogs down here,I have never seen pink cotton grass???
  7. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    that looks like pink cotton grass? I'm going to check this out
  8. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    I take it this is a hint?:-)
  9. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    I find flowers that resemble it but they show no anthers.This pic has anthers on the end of every tendril.Was the plant in a wetland? On a roadside? The background is out of focus.
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    My first Orchid of the season

    I thought I was the only schizo that wore camo in the woods and am never hunting!I am always being taken for a hunter till i bring attention to the fact I have no gun or bow and arrows. I think you see more animals with it on and I can more easily avoid people when i hear them coming.Humans are...
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    Another 5AM outing

    it's similar to sclerolepis but thats not it.I give up.I've checked petersons field guide to wildflowers.I've checked howard boyds wildflower guide.I've checked mike bakers website and numerous others. I thinks it's another invasive.Thats why the invasive folks are getting rid of all of them...
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    Another 5AM outing

    Guy what kind of habitat was it in?It looks to have grass shaped leaves,parallel veined?net veined?How tall?Looks like an annual?
  13. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    Bob! Tom! Help! If the pink flower above isn't some type of Blazing Star I know not what it is.
  14. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    I'll keep trying on the pink one then
  15. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    When you can sit and do absolutely nothing and still sweat so bad it runs into your eyes and burns them you know it is hot,the humidity and absolutely no breeze only exacerbated the situation.
  16. manumuskin

    Forest fire 7/12/2012

    Thanks Dogg.I don't know those particular woods but use 54 whenever heading to west wharton.turn east on weymouth and go thru makepeace whenever heading to eaqst wharton or points east of there. on second look I have been through there.Thats the great egg swamp! canoed through there with Whip in...
  17. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    http://www.vaplantatlas.org/index.php?do=plant&plant=3449 might the white one be this?
  18. manumuskin

    Another 5AM outing

    Liatris graminifolia I think the pink flower might be this? The ones i find seem to be more purple without the little flat pieces on the end of the tendrils. another name seems to be Liatris pilosa also grass leaved blazing star
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    Another 5AM outing

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/256459/bgpage Guy I think this is your damselfly Argia nahuana - Argia agrioides - a male and known as a Dancer.
  20. manumuskin

    My first Orchid of the season

    I am going to bone up on my wildflowers Tom.Gonna start getting better with insects and such too.I know my herps and mammals very well and my trees and shrubs and am pretty fair with birds but need to get better with the smaller plants and the wee small critters that torment us so in the...
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