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Monday Morning Mystery Trifecta
On a recent visit to Plum Island in Massachusetts, I saw these three plants. Have to admit that I don't know what they are.
Can you help?
I could go on iNaturalist, but then it wouldn't be a mystery.
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Yes, I thought of that but the growth pattern is not correct, Dodder has a scraggly vine-like growing pattern.Could this be the Yellow-twig Cornus??
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The middle one looks like dodder
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First one is Spotted Knapweed (alien)
Second one I don’t know?
Third one might be Winterberry Holly
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Deedee
Yes, I thought of that but the growth pattern is not correct, Dodder has a scraggly vine-like growing pattern.Could this be the Yellow-twig Cornus??
Patty Finn
The middle one looks like dodder
Deedee
First one is Spotted Knapweed (alien)
Second one I don’t know?
Third one might be Winterberry Holly