Common Wild Rose

Common Wild Rose

Emerging Plant Leaves Stem Mature Plant 08 August, 2016 This perennial, shrubby plant has stout and branched stems growing up to 2 meters high, although it does not reach this height in wild lowbush blueberry fields. The upper branches are smooth except for scattered...
Sweet Fern – Fruit

Sweet Fern – Fruit

Sweet Fern Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coult. A much-branched shrub that spreads by rhizomes forming dense patches. It has long (10 cm), narrow, lobed, and fragrant leaves. Male and female flowers are borne in birch-like catkins. The male catkins are green to brown and...
Sweet Fern – Male Catkin

Sweet Fern – Male Catkin

Sweet Fern Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coult. A much-branched shrub that spreads by rhizomes forming dense patches. It has long (10 cm), narrow, lobed, and fragrant leaves. Male and female flowers are borne in birch-like catkins. The male catkins are green to brown and...
Sweet Fern – Leaves

Sweet Fern – Leaves

Sweet Fern Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coult. A much-branched shrub that spreads by rhizomes forming dense patches. It has long (10 cm), narrow, lobed, and fragrant leaves. Male and female flowers are borne in birch-like catkins. The male catkins are green to brown and...
Sweet Fern – Mature Plant

Sweet Fern – Mature Plant

Sweet Fern Comptonia peregrina (L.) Coult. A much-branched shrub that spreads by rhizomes forming dense patches. It has long (10 cm), narrow, lobed, and fragrant leaves. Male and female flowers are borne in birch-like catkins. The male catkins are green to brown and...
Trailing Blackberry – Fruit

Trailing Blackberry – Fruit

Trailing Blackberry Rubus hispidus L. A trailing to low arching plant with weak bristles along a woody, vine-like stem. Stem tips that contact the soil may root and produce new plants. Plants hybridize and may be highly variable. Leaves are palmately compound with 3...