New natives
August 16, 2025
herbaceous, observations | permalink
I identified three new native plants in what I'm currently calling the southern woodland edge (a fancy name for the strip at the corner of the road and our driveway that I've reclaimed from grass): common dewberry (Rubus flagellaris), common copperleaf (Acalypha rhomboidea), and white vervain (Verbena urticifolia). I also realized that there was a potential that what I thought was American plantain (apparently pronounced "plan-tin", not "plan-tane", Plantago rugelii) was actually a different species, and so went looking for some information on how to properly identify it. I found a page from the website "Edible Wild Foods", which had an excellent video comparing it with a similar, but non-native, species, Plantago majora. Thankfully it appears I have the native one, or at least of those I looked carefully at.
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