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@sedge @ammophila @grantfessler is this yellow birch???

Same plant in flower one month earlier: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/174229014

Local fern expert and naturalist Bob Bryant reported finding this species here a few years ago.

Growing at edge of mowed lawn in pioneer cemetery with remnant sand prairie. I suspect this could be C. inops heliophila.

Growing on the margin of a pond directly adjacent to the Middle Fork river. Many dozens of individuals.

Rough count revealed 22 individuals in one population, no other subpopulations found. Exclusively growing on large, polished limestone gravel on riverbank.

Idk the difference between V. palmata and V. triloba or if V. triloba is now a syn for viola palmata.

1/18/2023

may be smallest mushrooms I have ever seen... growing on old acorn shell

Curious doubled specimen. This is the second one I’ve found.

get out of my quadrat

This species is very similar to C. sericea, but has stones that are flattened, not globoid.

One anthocyanin free plant and the darkest one I have ever seen. About 10 feet apart. Gotta love nature and variation.