Observações de bendingtree

Whenever I take a picture of buttonbush, there's a silver-spotted skipper nearby. They must like these.

Common; boggy margin of kettlehole lake.

Common in shallow water, margin of kettlehole lake.

Abundant; shallow waters in glacial kettlehole lake.

Common; growing with Blephilia hirsuta in moist herbaceous thicket along beaver dam.

Common; shaded sphagnum hummocks with Symplocarpus and Carex spp., White Pine Bog.

Abundant/dominant in floating-leaved/emergent marsh.

Common; moist herbaceous thickets along margins of beaver pond.

Common; shrubby thickets along margin of beaver pond.

Common; margins of pond and beaver dam.

Common, forest edge along dirt road.

Rare; single plant along stream margin in skunk cabbage seep in boggy woods.

Common in boggy area, former margin of drained lake.

Common low shrub in sedge meadow/shrubby cinquefoil fen.

Rare; 4 or 5 mature trees in sphagnous area within fen.

weed, roadside, Moorefield Rd. bridge above Buck Creek.

Common; sphagnum mat in kettlehole bog.

Common; sphagnum mat in kettlehole bog. In flower.

Uncommon; small patch in wet phalaris meadow. This has been merged with Stachys tenuifolia by some authorities.

Single individual on Pastinaca along roadside. The plant was infested with aphids; I don't think they were harming the caterpillar.

Frequent, edge of weedy successional forest and moist meadow. Orange- and red-fruited individuals present.

Common in moist old field.

Common; roadside.

Common in moist old field habitat with Solidago.