F. Robert Wesley

Note the width and flattened look of this fruit compared to typical raspberry or blackberry fruit.

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low growing annual of successional fields, disturbed and edge habitats

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Early coralroot in bloom.

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Fruits of elegant drooping sedge.

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Marsh blue violet

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Sassafras "mitten" leaves in fall.

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Wild blue phlox and ginger - Finger Lakes spring!

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Red one is S. warnstorfii, the greenish tan is S. centrale; these are found in a rich fen, not in acid bogs.

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May apple, wild geranium, blue phlox, yellow hispid buttercup, rue anemone (white), wild ginger... a rich forest floor in spring.

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Common blue violet is larger and taller in richer habitats; the photo is at a very lean site.

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