PLANT ID!? warning-picture overload

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So the last couple days i posted some pics of recent bush-walks (the last week or so) mostly of mammals and birds. so here's a thread on plants i came across on a short 2hour or so walk through the bush today.
i'd LOVE that we could name them all? i could use the help, maybe even their uses?
some are obvious, some i've had to look up.... atleast one is a trick.
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Three petaled and three leafed flower is Trilium .
Two white flowers - wild strawberry.
Various shelf fungus.
 
22 is a fern--looks like the iron fern I see growing all over here in Southern China. Amazing pics btw!
 
Well Im from the west so heres some that I maybe know
1 raspberry
2 trilium ramps and braken fern
5 dutchman breeches
7 cucumber root?
8 trilium
9 club moss
10 wintergreen
12 twisted stalk
14 ground pine
16 sarasarilla
17 strawberry
18 wild lily of the valley?
20 coltsfoot
21 equisetum
22 sweet fern
23 nanny berry?
24 columbine
25 thistle from last year
Dan'l
 
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1 - blackberry
4 - turkeytail
7 - indian cucumber
10 - partridgeberry
12 - false solomon seal
13 - shelf fungus (don't know which species)
23 - hobblebush

For the rest, I either don't know or agree with dboles
 
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Between Dan'l and Joel, there isn't much left for the rest of us. :D

ID from a single picture can be problematic because it can omit many identification features.

Anyway, 3 looks like a leafy shoot of Northern White Cedar ( Thuja occidentalis)

10 - I agree with Joel. I think it's Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens). Wintergreen has alternate leaves and they look somewhat different.

11. Looks like Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides).

12. I agree with Dan'l about Twisted Stalk, probably Rose Twisted Stalk (Streptopus roseus) because the leaves don't seem to be clasping the stalk. False Solomon's Seal has terminal flower clusters not in the leaf axils.

15. Looks like the seed of Yellow or Curled Dock (Rumex crispus).

16. Good call, Dan'l. Don't know if you're right but you're closer than I would have been. I wouldn't have thought about Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis) although I am familiar with the plant.

19. Don't know, but want to.

23. Forgot to add, but I also think this is Hobblebusy (Viburnum alnifolium)

Doc
 
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Between Dan'l and Joel, there isn't much left for the rest of us. :D

ID from a single picture can be problematic because it can omit many identification features.

Anyway, 3 looks like a leafy shoot of Northern White Cedar ( Thuja occidentalis)

10 - I agree with Joel. I think it's Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens). Wintergreen has alternate leaves and they look somewhat different.

11. Looks like Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides).

12. I agree with Dan'l about Twisted Stalk, probably Rose Twisted Stalk (Streptopus roseus) because the leaves don't seem to be clasping the stalk. False Solomon's Seal has terminal flower clusters not in the leaf axils.

15. Looks like the seed of Yellow or Curled Dock (Rumex crispus).

16. Good call, Dan'l. Don't know if you're right but you're closer than I would have been. I wouldn't have thought about Sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis) although I am familiar with the plant.

19. Don't know, but want to.

23. Forgot to add, but I also think this is Hobblebusy (Viburnum alnifolium)

Doc

Ya we have things pretty well covered i would think. part of my efforts this year have been learning to ID useful plants as early as possible (sure flowers make it easy but what about before that, right?) and on that note, number 19 is the emerging coltsfoot, just barely out of the ground
 
Ya we have things pretty well covered i would think. part of my efforts this year have been learning to ID useful plants as early as possible (sure flowers make it easy but what about before that, right?) and on that note, number 19 is the emerging coltsfoot, just barely out of the ground

Hey northern,

Was I correct on #3?

Doc
 
1 blackberry?
2 ramps
5 virginia waterleaf
7 indian cucumber
11 sassafras?
12 solomons seal?
14 canadian hemlock?
16 some sort of sumac?
17 indian strawberry
21 asparagus?
25 burdock?
 
#7 been bugging me I do think its a type of lilly like a wood lily or tiger lily.
We have out here called columbia lily when emergent the leaves are whorled like that
Dan'l
 
#7 been bugging me I do think its a type of lilly like a wood lily or tiger lily.
We have out here called columbia lily when emergent the leaves are whorled like that
Dan'l

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Looks like Indian Cucumber Root (Medeola virginiana). As you can see here, it doesn't grow anywhere near your area, so you can hardly be familiar with it. I've only seen it a few times, myself and that was quite a bit north of me, although it's supposed to grow around here, as well. And it is a member of the Lily family.

I tried to find a good picture on the web. This one isn't bad. (Give it a couple of seconds to take you to the right spot).

Doc
 
Thanks for that DOC-C.
I have seen that Cucumber root before when visiting the east
(Will be that way this summer or early Sept.)
I do see that from the link you posted and what you have said Cucumber root is a lily family so in this instance if Im wrong Im kinda right lol
Dan'l
 
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