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Category: Rare Plants

The rare plants and ranked plants of New Hampshire and New England.

Foraging / Lichens and Mosses / Native Orchids / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Headed North!

Over the holiday weekend we headed North.  We have a camp in Coos County, New Hampshire that we do not get to often enough! It’s an entirely different world up there, …

Moths and Insects / Native Orchids / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Quick and dirty.

This past week was a busy one with the launch of our summer project – Backyard Biology 2016, a crowdsourced natural inventory of our community!  Residents and visitors to the …

Foraging / Lichens and Mosses / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

A peek in the woods….

A few weeks ago we pulled over to take a picture of a quite beautiful patch of blooming Epigaea repens. As we were walking back to the Jeep, Keith peeked up …

Dicentra cucullaria, dutchman's breeches, nh wildflowers, spring ephemerals
Lichens and Mosses / Moths and Insects / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers / Wildlife

The spring ephemerals continue…

Find the habitat, find the plants. That’s a good Keith quote. Our friend Parker from White Mountain Mushrooms suggested we try a spot that he had scoped out earlier, and it …

Foraging / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

The spring ephemerals have sprung!

It’s around this time of year that folks to the south and west of us start sharing pictures of spring ephemerals, the glorious first blooms of spring! Spring ephemerals are …

Native Plants / Rare Plants

A few ferns for fun

Honestly, I am struggling at this point with quite a few of the ferns.  My issue is, I have not actually keyed any out, the species I do know by …

Native Orchids / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Purple fringed bog orchids and Ditch Botany

You know how some roadsides are lined with ferns or Japanese knotweed (invasive, invasive, invasive!) or are dutifully mowed far too often by overzealous town crews? Well, go to Northern …

Native Orchids / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Our secret spot! I spy Platanthera blephariglottis!

Platanthera blephariglottis! Platanthera blephariglottis! Platanthera blephariglottis! Say it a few more times and it will start to roll off your tongue, I promise! The white-fringed bog-orchid MIGHT be one of my …

Rose pogonia Pogonia ophioglossoides flower
Native Orchids / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Window on the Ossipees

Sometimes the coolest places are the most unassuming ones. Take Window on the Ossipees, for example. A small dirt parking lot off of busy Route 16. A covered picnic table …

Native Orchids / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Carnivorous sundew. Oh, and some Malaxis unifolia.

We are on the hunt for Malaxis unifolia! Green Adder’s Mouth. Tiny. Elusive. Ranked S2 in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, S1 in Connecticut and Rhode Island. We are getting …

Moths and Insects / Mushrooms / Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Camping in Mollidgewock State Park

We headed north! Rather than staying at camp, we decided to tent it at Mollidgewock State Park which is located in Thirteen Mile Woods.  Thirteen Mile Woods is 2,754 acres that follows the …

Cypripedium acaule Pink Lady's Slipper
Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

The Cypripediums – Lady’s-slippers of New England

Ok, let’s just get this straight from the get-go. It’s LADY’S-SLIPPERS. The slippers that belong to the lady. Hyphenated. As we do for most native orchid concerns, I refer to …

Cypripedium arietinum, ram's head orchid
Native Plants / Pine Barrens / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Native Orchids! The season has begun!

We looooove native orchids! There are FIFTY TWO native orchids listed for New Hampshire, and most folks are not aware that there is even one.  Four of the fifty two …

Trillium undulatum, painted trillium, painted wakerobin
Native Plants / Rare Plants / Wildflowers

Spring Wildflowers and Growing Green Things

Spring is FINALLY freaking underway! Some finds from the past week: I was excited to see dwarf ginseng even before it bloomed…..this is even better! Don’t bother harvesting this stuff. …

Botrychium oneidense
Native Plants / Rare Plants

Botrychium oneidense , Pine Barrens of NH

Apparently this little guy is somewhat rare.  This is Botrychium oneidense, or blunt lobed grapefern.  Found on the floodplain of the Chocorua river in Tamworth NH.  Other grapeferns have more pointy …

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