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Wildflowers - Mystery Plants

  

I have been engaged in a self-study program of learning the plants of southern Ontario. When I go out for a hike, I try to identify the plants that I come across. However, sometimes I am not successful.  On some walks sometimes I have a friend along who helps in the identification, but sometimes they are not 100% sure either. In all these cases I take some photographs and try to identify the plants later using more books to refer to.
Even then, I am still sometimes unable to identify some of the plants! So, in an effort to learn the ones I can't identify, I am posting them on these pages.

 

If you can help, please email me.  Please include the plant number with your responses.

Thank you very much for your help!!

  
Please also check Mystery Plants on these other websites:
  
  • #90001
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 2012-09-15)
    Found at the side of the boardwalk at Oliphant Fen, Bruce Peninsula. These photos were taken in mid-August 2004.
  • #90002
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 2011-06-16)
    Found on Flowerpot Island (Bruce Peninsula) in mid-June of 2009
  • #90003
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    A small white-flowered plant found on Warner Bay Road at the top of the Bruce Peninsula, in mid-June 2006.
  • #90004
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    A fancy-looking Cinquefoil of some sort. Found in Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario, in mid-June 2005.
  • #90005
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    A dead seed head in September, near Brantford, Ontario. I didn\'t examine any other plant characteristics but I should have.
  • #90006
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    An odd rosette near Hilton Falls, near Milton, Ontario. Mid-May 2005. Unfortunately I was not able to return to see what it grew into.
  • #90007
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 2011-09-01)
    This plant was found at a couple of locations on the Bruce Peninsula: Gauley Bay and Oliphant Fen area. Early July 2010.
  • #90008
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 0000-00-00)
    A small plant growing on a rock at the entrance to St. Jean's Point, on the Bruce Peninsula. Early July 2010.
  • #90009
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    A large thistle, in the Saugeen Valley Canservation Authority Headquarters trails, near the sulphur springs.
  • #90014
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    An unknown water plant near Allenford Ontario. Sep 2007.
  • #90015
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    Sudden Tract, near Cambridge Ontario. Late Nov 2006.
  • #90016
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 2012-09-26)
    Found along the Waterfront Trail in Hamilton, Ontario. Nov 2006.
  • #90017
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    An unknown water plant. It looks like Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis), but it's right in the water, so may not be. Dundas Valley, mid-Apr 2006.
  • #90018
    Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
    Water plant, near Cambridge, Ontario. Early July 2007.