Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) is used as a natural poision ivy treatment. This plant grows up to five feet tall and has bright orange and yellow flowers. Its is located by water because it requires alot of moisture to thrive, it is also almost always located near poision ivy. Humans have been using this for medicinal purposes before the use of modern medicine came about.
JEWEL WEED
RAGWORT
Ragwort or "jacobaea vulgaris", is located in dry open places. The stems are erect and can grow up from 1-6 feet and ae covered in small fibrus hairs. The (hemaphrodite) flower heads are yellow 1.5-2.5 centimeters and have a generally unpleasent smell. the flowering period is from june to late november.. Habitats include wet to mesic deciduous woodlands, damp woodland openings, woodland borders, moist sandy savannas, sandy swamps, seeps and edges of springs, banks of rivers and lakes, slopes of rocky ravines, glades, moist meadows, roadside embankments, and abandoned fields. Ragwort falls prey to many small bees and flies. The flower is suhunned by many herbavors excluding sheep. Humans tend to effect this plant by cuttting it down.
Fern(adaintum pedatum) - This non flowering, evergreen goes under the comon name "Fern" but is scientifically known as Polystichum acrostichoides. It is very low maintence and contains it self quite nicely (only spreading from 1-2 feet). It only grows up to 1-2 feet and has opposite leavleetes on its long leaf. one plant only has approxamately ten to twenty leaves but can have hundreds of leaflets
FERN
This small red morning glory or (Ipomoea coccinea) is an annal vine with alternate leaves,Leaves can reach 9cm in length (3.5inches). Leaves can be as wide as 5.5 cm (2inches). Each leaf usually has a few very shallow basal lobes and some few teeth. The flowers have 5 Regular Parts and are up to 3cm long (1 inches). They are red and blooms first appear in late summer and continue into mid fall .Located in the U. S. from Texas and Florida north to Michigan and Massachusetts. Humand have effected this species by cross breading it to produce different colors. Morning glorys are very poisonis to all animals, this became a large problem when house pets would eat them from their owners garden.
MORNING GLORY
I know it is hard to clearly see what to look at in this picture, butI tried to take a picture of the alge on the swamp. Algae is mostly an equatic plant that is very important to the ecosystem how ever if it is allowed to grow uncontrollably it may sufficate the fish that live in the lakes. One definition is that algae "have chlorophyll as their primary photosynthetic pigment and lack a sterile covering of cells around their reproductive cells", there are no definate definitions of Algae. Algae can span out as far as the lake it grows on.
ALGAE
Posion ivy can be a hairy vine climbing up trees and other vertical objects up to 100 feet tall. It can grow as a ground cover up just 2 feet tall, and it can also grow as an erect bushy shrub up to 4 feet tall. You can find this plant near fences, wields, thickets, woods,in disturbed areas,and trails. A predictor of poison ivy is a goat.Once in the presence of light Poison Ivy knows that it can start photosynthesizing so it responds by opening and expanding of the cotyledons and producing chlorophyll.
POISON IVY
The plant in the right half of the photo is Bee Balm; also known as Monarda. This plants' scientific name comes from a Spainist Botanist: Nicholas Monardes who (in 1547) classified the plants in the New World. This plant can have its' medicinal uses; such as, it has a high concentration of Essential Oils. This plants coloration can range from a dark red to a light bluish lilac. This plant grows from 20 cm- 90 cm. The flowers are single but sometimes have mutaions and have double. Flower colors vary from pink, red, and light purple. Monarda is in the tribe Mentheae of the subfamily Nepetoideae in the mint family.
BEE BALM
The plant that is covering the majority of this photo is rhododendron. This species is an invasive species because it modifies itself to take up more space, so that other plants won't grow there. the common adult size is 98 feet and is considered Alpine native plants from North America to Europe, Russia, and Asia, and from Greenland to Queensland, Australia and the Solomon Islands. These trees are becoming victems to deforisted (this counts as three of the thigs on the rubric). They are grown from seed spreading, cutting or grafting. they also grow year round.
RHODODENDRON
Turkey Tail, or Trametes versicolor, is a multi colored fungi that grows predomanatly on the sides logs or rock. The cap is flat and can generally grow from up to 8 x 5 x 0.5-1 cm in area and is often triangular or round. this fungi is commonly eaten by catilipars or magots. It grows mostly on fallen logs in moist enviroments. Humans don't typically impact this species much execpt for the fact that, thanks to deforestation, more and more trees are becoming downed. This fungi grows all across the U.S. most although most commonly found in eastern and central U.S. the only reason this fungi would have limited growth would be because of faulty weather patterns. This mushroom starts out as a network of whitish cells in dead wood called mycelium, however, when it starts to reproduce it will produce the mushroom on the outside of the log which releases spores from the pores on the bottom of it. One of the adaptions which mushrooms have which make it suitable for this kind of environment is the mycelium which make it possible for the mushroom to absorb nutrients from this like dead logs.
TURKEY TAIL
This fungus is a bright orange color and has a white stem. There are no spots, but some areas were darker than others. It ranges from 3–12 cm (1.2–4.7 in) in length and is occasional to common in the Southeastern United States. This mushroom is frequently found in grassy, disturbed-ground areas like picnic areas, lawns, ditches, roadbanks, and so on--though it appears in woods as well. It also has a mychorizzal relationship with oaks, and is also often found under pines in mixed woods in the Southeastern and eastern United States Cap: The pileus is bright red ranging from 3–12 cm (1.2–4.7 in) in diameter with warts which range in color from pale yellow to white. With rain, these can wash off, giving it a somewhat similar appearance to an Amanita in section Caesareae from a distance, especially if all but the cap is covered by detritus. The mushroom starts out as a spore that has been discharged out of a mushroom, and then once the spore lands it forms a network of mycelium and from that grows the fruit of the fungi the "mushroom" which is the fruiting body of a fungi. One Interesting adaption that makes it good to live in its environment is its mychorizzal relationship with oaks. This is because the tree will provide things like carbohydrates while the mushroom will provide the tree with water it absorbs. One way that huamn activities could affect the species is by cutting down trees that it has a mychorizzal relationship would lessen its abiloity to gain carbohydrates.
AMANITA PARCIVOLVATA
