Wildflowers: three stormwater basin plants

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  1. coelacanth

    coelacanth Active Member

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    Unknown 1: upland area

    Unknown 2: basin bottom (saturated), tiny, 4-parted pink to white flowers

    Unknown 3. basin bottom, Cyperus squarrosus?
     

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  2. Andrey Zharkikh

    Andrey Zharkikh Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    #1 - Geum sp (say, G. alepicum or G. canadense)
    #2 - Epilobium sp
     
  3. Daniel Mosquin

    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    For 1, that seed in the upper right doesn't seem to match the plant from the other photographs unless I'm way off-base. I associate that seed with Bidens frondosa, and the other images with a Geum.

    For 2, an Epilobium, if I am recalling correctly about the direction of the sepals.
     
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    Daniel Mosquin Paragon of Plants UBC Botanical Garden Forums Administrator Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    Ah, are those two seeds on your finger or just one?
     
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    I think two, and I just realized that myself. I had thought it was a Geum...but was so confused why it had two barbs.
     
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    Andrey Zharkikh Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Definitely two - the dark line in the middle is actually the upper edge of the lower seed.
     

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