Black Spruce Bog Community Summer 2007 Instructors: Phil Splett and Jesse Kroese
joe-pye weed Eupatorium maculatum Pink Flowering structure
bog birch Betula pumila Distinct seed capsule Serrated ellipsoid leaves
high-bush cranberry Viburnum trilobum Distinct red fruit Three lobed leaves with the middle lobe longer than the rest
bunchberry Cornus canadensis Single stem Red to orange fruit in clusters Dogwood leaves that form a whorlike structre
red-osier dogwood Cornus sericea
bog rosemary Andromeda glaucophylla White to pink flowers Lanceolate shaped leaves Alternate leaves with a distinct white underside
pale laurel Kalmia polifolia Opposite leaves with a white underside
Labrador tea Ledum groenlandicum Forms dense colonies “fuzzy” undersides of leaves
small cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos
currants (view only) Ribes spp.
three-leaved false Solomon’s seal Smilacina trifolia When mature has three leaved flowering structure Also forms a one to two leaved basal leaf
black ash Fraxinus nigra
tamarack Larix laricina Distinct needle clusters
black spruce Picea mariana Brownish hairs on stem
goldthread Coptis groenlandica Three leaved clusters
mountain ash Sorbus decora
pitcher plant (view only) Sarracenia purpurea
northern white cedar Thuja occidentalis Compressed “scaled” leaves