October 27, 2026
Monday Mystery Answered
On Monday I wrote… Yesterday morning, top Celery Farm Nature Preserve birder Julie McCall saw an unusual-looking hawk over the…
Alice Leurck, who posed the mystery, writes:
This mystery was happily solved for me on the Native Plant walk Don Torino gave at Teaneck Creek last month.
I had photographed this weed along the Celery Farm's Parnell's Path on 7/25/2015, and fleetingly wondered what it was.
Never got around to trying to figure it out. There it was at Teaneck Creek, and Don identified it as Nutsedge.
Congrats to Deedee Burnside for IDing it correctly, and thank you to Alice Leurck for the mystery photo.