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narrowleaf mountainmint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium, the narrowleaf mountainmint, slender mountainmint, common horsemint or Virginia thyme, is a plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. It is native to eastern North America.

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134297396

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hyssopleaf thoroughwort (Eupatorium hyssopifolium)

Eupatorium hyssopifolium, also known as Hyssopleaf thoroughwort, is a fall-blooming herbaceous plant native to North America. Like other members of the genus Eupatorium it has inflorescences containing a large number of very small flower heads, each with 5 white disc florets but no ray florets. At 0.5 to one meter (20-40 inches) tall, it is towards the shorter end of the range of heights found in Eupatorium species.

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134297279

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Bearded Beggarticks (Bidens aristosa)

Bidens aristosa is a North American species of plants in the sunflower family. Common names include bearded beggarticks, western tickseed, long-bracted beggarticks, tickseed beggarticks, swamp marigold, and Yankee lice. It is native to eastern and central United States and south-central Canada, from Maine south to Florida and west as far as Ontario, Texas, and Nebraska.

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/134297237

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eastern black walnut (Juglans nigra)

Juglans nigra, the eastern black walnut, is a species of deciduous tree in the walnut family, Juglandaceae, native to eastern North America. It grows mostly in riparian zones, from southern Ontario, west to southeast South Dakota, south to Georgia, northern Florida and southwest to central Texas. Wild trees in the upper Ottawa Valley may be an isolated native population or may have derived from planted trees.

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133614401

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groundsel tree (Baccharis halimifolia)

Baccharis halimifolia is a North American species of shrubs in the daisy family. It is native to Nova Scotia, the eastern and southern United States (from Massachusetts south to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma), eastern Mexico (Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Quintana Roo), the Bahamas, and Cuba.

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133234879

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White Morning-glory (Ipomoea lacunosa)

Ipomoea lacunosa, the whitestar, white morning-glory or pitted morningglory, is a species that belongs to the Ipomoea genus. In this genus most members are commonly referred to as “morning glories”. The name for the genus, Ipomoea, has root in the Greek words ips and homoios, which translates to worm-like. This is a reference to the plant’s vine-like growth. Lacunosa comes from a Latin word meaning air spaces, correlating with

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133207070

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White-Pored Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus cincinnatus)

Laetiporus sulphureus is a species of bracket fungus (fungi that grow on trees) found in Europe and North America. Its common names are crab-of-the-woods, sulphur polypore, sulphur shelf, and chicken-of-the-woods. Its fruit bodies grow as striking golden-yellow shelf-like structures on tree trunks and branches. Old fruitbodies fade to pale beige or pale grey. The undersurface of the fruit body is made up of tubelike pores rather than gills.

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132465456

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flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata)

Euphorbia corollata is an herbaceous perennial plant in the Euphorbiaceae family that is native to North America. A common name for the species is flowering spurge. It has a milky sap that can cause skin and eye irritation in some people. It grows up to 1 m (3 ft) tall, with smooth stems and light green leaves arranged alternately or in whorls. Leaves are about 10 mm (1/2 in) wide and 75 mm (3 in) long. Each stem terminates in a…

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/132032838

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shaggy-stalked bolete (Aureoboletus betula)

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131931795

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violet coral fungus (Clavaria zollingeri)

Clavaria zollingeri, commonly known as the violet coral or the magenta coral, is a widely distributed species of fungus. It produces striking tubular, purple to pinkish-violet fruit bodies that grow up to 10 cm (3.9 in) tall and 7 cm (2.8 in) wide. The extreme tips of the fragile, slender branches are usually rounded and brownish. A typical member of the clavarioid or club fungi, Clavaria zollingeri is saprobic, and so derives nutrients by breaking down organic

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131079169

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mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia)

Kalmia latifolia, commonly called mountain laurel, calico-bush, or spoonwood, is a broadleaved evergreen shrub in the heather family, Ericaceae, that is native to the eastern United States. Its range stretches from southern Maine south to northern Florida, and west to Indiana and Louisiana. Mountain laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. It is the namesake of Laurel County in Kentucky and the city of Laurel, Mississippi (founded 1882).

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131077691

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Beech Blight Aphid (Grylloprociphilus imbricator)

The beech blight aphid (Grylloprociphilus imbricator) is a small insect in the order Hemiptera that feeds on the sap of American beech trees. The aphids form dense colonies on small branches and the undersides of leaves.

Source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131077586