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Questions and Answers: 2015

Question: This is the last of the photos I took about a month ago in Vermont which I have been unable …

  • Question

    This is the last of the photos I took about a month ago in Vermont which I have been unable to identify. Many thanks.

    Answer

    Dear lmc825, your plant is a species of Cardamine (bitter-cress), a member of the mustard family. It looks most like Cardamine pensylvanica (Pennsylvania bitter-cress), though I would need to have some additional details before I could supply a confident answer. This species is frequent in wet forests, along streams and other shorelines, and other wetland locations in New England.