1. Black Spruce Bog Community Summer 2007 Instructors: Phil Splett and Jesse Kroese

2. joe-pye weed Eupatorium maculatum www.mackinnonsgardenshop.co.uk Pink Flowering structure

3. bog birch Betula pumila www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/nhesp/nhprotmonmoun.htm http://web.syr.edu/~mhough/B/Betula_pumila.html Distinct seed capsule Serrated ellipsoid leaves

4. high-bush cranberry Viburnum trilobum www.mnstac.org Distinct red fruit Three lobed leaves with the middle lobe longer than the rest

5. bunchberry Cornus canadensis Single stem Red to orange fruit in clusters Dogwood leaves that form a whorlike structre

6. red-osier dogwood Cornus sericea

7. bog rosemary Andromeda glaucophylla www.odu.edu/~lmusselm/courses/biol315/2002/plants.html White to pink flowers Lanceolate shaped leaves Alternate leaves with a distinct white underside

8. pale laurel www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/herbarium/wetland_plants/kalpol01.htm Kalmia polifolia Opposite leaves with a white underside

9. Labrador tea Ledum groenlandicum Forms dense colonies “fuzzy” undersides of leaves

10. small cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos

11. currants (view only) Ribes spp.

12. three-leaved false Solomon’s seal Smilacina trifolia When mature has three leaved flowering structure Also forms a one to two leaved basal leaf

13. black ash Fraxinus nigra

14. tamarack Larix laricina http://bio.bd.psu.edu/plant_web/Pinaceae/Eastern_Larch_01a_Cone.html Distinct needle clusters

15. black spruce Picea mariana Brownish hairs on stem

16. goldthread Coptis groenlandica Three leaved clusters

17. mountain ash www.batsarb.co.uk/images/sorbus.jpg Sorbus decora

18. pitcher plant (view only) Sarracenia purpurea

19. northern white cedar Thuja occidentalis Compressed “scaled” leaves