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06-05-2008, 10:14 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Corinth, ME
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Maine wild flowers/weeds
I need some help in identifying or confirming the ID of some of the things I have seen growing.
this was taken between Milo and Dover-Foxcroft May 26. It was a large (maybe 8 foot tall) open woody shrub. Pinkish flowers with very delicate and prominent stamens. I would have though this a natural for the bees, but didn't see a single one. |
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06-05-2008, 10:16 PM
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Corinth, ME homeowner
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another "what is it" shrub
Here is another one that I spotted a few days later...
They look kind of like apple blossoms, but look at that THORN near where I picked it.. and they were thorns, indeed, not broken off twigs. There were not a lot of thorns but they were all like that, about 2 1/2" long!
Similar location around Milo... |
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06-05-2008, 10:20 PM
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Corinth, ME homeowner
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Yellow Wood Sorrel?
This was a tiny flower, I think it may be Yellow Wood Sorrel? What do you think? |
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06-05-2008, 10:23 PM
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Corinth, ME homeowner
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I SHOULD know this one!
I know I have seen this before and should know the name of it.. but it just is not coming to me... there is a pretty good look at the leaf in the lower right corner, it is about a foot tall and the flowers about 3/4" across.
a flower close-up
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06-05-2008, 10:26 PM
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Corinth, ME homeowner
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very tiny one...
The blossom of this one is under 1/4" |
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06-05-2008, 10:28 PM
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Corinth, ME homeowner
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NOT a dandelion!
This is not Coltsfoot either, as far as I can tell... there can be more than one blossom on a stalk, it seems...
These do not seem to grow where the soil is the more fertile, but only in the pretty bare, inhospitable-seeming places. |
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06-05-2008, 10:32 PM
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Corinth, ME homeowner
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last but not least
Ones that I CAN identify! LOL
 dandelion
and  wild mustard, I believe??
We also have Broad-leaved Plantain but it is not blooming yet. |
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06-06-2008, 06:36 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Northern Maine
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Your 11:23 post is a buttercup.
Your 11:16 post is thornapple. I avoid these like the plague. I got two flats on my Kubota tractor from them and I drove one of these long thorns into the back of my hand once. It took months to heal completely.
Your 11:14 post is called rhododendron locally, but that may not be its true name. It also looks like fireweed.
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06-06-2008, 07:47 PM
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Here for the Duration
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: God's Country
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man
I drove one of these long thorns into the back of my hand once. It took months to heal completely.
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What was your hand doing anywhere near one of those thorns? |
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06-06-2008, 08:14 PM
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It's chilly...but no place I'd rather be then here
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Sunrise County ~Maine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man
Your 11:16 post is thornapple. I avoid these like the plague. I got two flats on my Kubota tractor from them and I drove one of these long thorns into the back of my hand once. It took months to heal completely.
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Steve and I dug one of these up 2 years ago on Route 9 to grow one in our yard. I didn't know what it was, but Route 9 was loaded with them. It died.  |
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