Well. There comes a time when one remembering the right things at the right time equates to a high-stakes venture in academia.
Below is a gallery of photos taken today, comprised almost entirely out of bark, leaves, and twigs. This is my study guide for the upcoming natural history final exam. It is not near complete; but for a walk through the woods and a significant number of hours behind a camera, computer, and coffee cup, I think it will do for now. Frogs, tracks, and birds are not covered here.
-Jess
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- Red Maple bark
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- Red Maple leaves from afar
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- Beech bark with scale beetle holes and resulting health condition
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- Sugar maple leaves. Note extra fingers.
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- More Sugar Maple leaves
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- Mossy Hop Hornbeam trunk. Note stringy bark pattern and and reddish inner bark.
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- Hop Hornbeam bottom. Note the flaking pattern.
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- Hemlock truck bottom
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- Standard Hemlock view
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- White Pine bark
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- (Likely Red Maple)
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- Young Beech branching
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- Beech leaves – Young plant, recently opened.
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- “Yew! You’re a Shrubbery!”
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- Tough one: BigTooth Aspen. Note serrated baby leaves.
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- Canada Mayflower
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- Another likely Bigtooth Aspen leaf…
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- Fruticose Old man’s beard. Symbiosis between fungus and algae = Lichen
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- Red Oak bark
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- Dandelion greens
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- Trout Lily
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- Wild Ginger AFAICT
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- Ostrich Ferns
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- “Cool fern”
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- Ostrich Fern’s signature “drape”
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- Trout Lilys
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- Quaking aspen
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- Quaking Aspen leaves
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- Japanese Knotweed babies
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- Gall phenomenon (I think a wasp version)
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- Japanese Barberry
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- Black Cherry Bark
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- Sugar Maple leaves
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- Sugar Maple bark, *young
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- Grape Vine
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- American Ash tree bark
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- Japanese Barberry
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- American Ash
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- Black Cherry Bark
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- Hornbeam “musclewood”
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- Beech
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- Grey Birch
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- Classic Grey Birch view
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- Sensitive Fern Fertile Frond
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- Beech
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- Hemlock
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- Stand of Yellow Birches
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- Yellow birch
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- Big Quaking Aspen – note how it looks like a beech, but isn’t…
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- Small quaking Aspen leaves
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