Mystery Plants - 2005
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#2005-14
This looks like Common Groundsel, but lacks the black-tipped bracts.

Found at Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario. Mid-June. Open area, gravel-ish.

 
 
 
 

#2005-15
IDENTIFIED as Valerian  (Valeriana officinalis)

This looks like Cowbane, but the leaves are opposite.

This plant was found July 9/05, along a railroad embankment, above a bog/fen/marsh area. Fletcher Creek headwaters area.

Here's the flower umbel.

Closeup of the flowers.
The odd thing about this plant is that there are pairs of leaves spaced widely apart along the stem. The plant is about 3-4 feet tall, even up to 6 feet tall in one specimen.

Ok, back to these leaves ...At the top of the plant, they're very small. As you go down the stem, they get larger.

This is the second pair of leaves from the bottom.
And this is one of the bottom pair of leaves.

#2005-16
A Mustard, found along Hamilton-Brantford Rail Trail, Jul 4/05; also in Hilton, Jul 8/05.
 
Stem is glaucous.
Leaves. Almost cream-coloured.
One flower was still open.

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