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Despite the heat, I can't seem to stay out of that hot burn area. It's really fascinating to be there because right now it's so open, and elemental at this stage. This below is a liverwort that I usually see after hot fire in the pines. It's in the wetland margins, mostly around cedar trees.

Not a single, solitary drop.

Uh-oh. 6:19 pm Barnegat. That's the tail end, it may miss me.

Yes, that's what I'm thinking too: Polygonum cuspidatum. The name has been changed, but I still use this one due to the task.

I got in my car ready to leave, and this fellow came into the puddle. I let him bathe about 5 minutes. Could not get a good shot.

Uh-oh. I saw several of these next to spungs in an otherwise 100% natural pineland habitat. I'm worried that they may be invasive. I have an idea of what it is, but I'd like to see if anyone else recognizes it.

Like a bear? :D

I went out to the hot burn yesterday afternoon. It was so humid I could only go 1/4 mile from the car. Awful, nothing made me cool, the humidity would not allow it. Found this among my plant specimens. That's a hat pin I use to manipulate things.

I consulted a lot of manuals, but in the end I googled the image, and using that suggestion, I read the descriptions in the manuals to be sure. David Snyder generally agrees with the ID. He said: "only 3 NJ records for it and all are along upper Delaware R in Sussex and Warren cos; species is...

Yes, now you have it.

No, but you are in the correct genus.

No, I'm very sure that is not it.

This is an odd tree. That is resin on the back of the leaves. I know what it is, I cheated. Anybody ever see it before?

"They refused to get it"? Sounds like there's more to the story than that.

It has a pleasant smell when the leaves are crushed, and the berries too.

Good German, how did you figure it out?

By the way fellers, ladies, and lurkers, as you guessed already, I don't know any more about trees and bushes than you do. In fact, this interaction with you is helping me a lot. You help confirm my analysis after I get the things home. Now, here is a branch from a bush that I never even knew...

Heres a good range map for the brown recluse (tongue-in-cheek)