Pycnoporus cinnabarinus shelf mushroom

Pycnoporus cinnabarinus at Great Marsh, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter County.

Photo taken Sept. 4, 2015.

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Wild sensitive plant

Wild sensitive plant (Chamaecrista nictitans) at Conrad Station Savanna, Newton County.  Photo taken August 19, 2015.

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Old-field Balsam

Old-field balsam (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium) at Conrad Station Savanna, Newton County.  Photo taken August 19, 2015.

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Berries of False Solomon's Seal

False Solomon's seal (Maianthemum racemosum) showing unripe berries at the end of the stalk.  At Fisher Oak Savanna, Jasper County.  Photo taken August 12, 2015.

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False Solomon's seal berries at another location, Conrad Station Savanna, Newton County.  Photo taken August 19, 2015.

The berries will ripen to a red color later in the season.

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Bottle Gentian

Bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii) at Spinn Prairie, White County.  Photo taken Sept. 5, 2015.

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Bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii) at Shades State Park, Montgomery County, near trail 10 leading to Pine Hills Preserve.  Photo taken Sept. 19, 2015.

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I'm identifying these as Gentiana andrewsii, although another possibility could be Gentiana saponaria.

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Flat-topped White Aster

Flat-topped aster (Doellingeria umbellata), shown here in a couple Indiana locations.  The first photo, above, is along the trail at Fisher Oak Savanna, Newton County, August 12, 2015.  The second photo, below, is along the trail at Great Marsh, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Porter County.

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Most North American asters have been reclassified under the genus Symphyotrichum, this species of aster has been put into the genus Doellingeria.

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Dewberry

Dewberry (Rubus flagellaris) lies low along the ground at the Fisher Oak Savanna NICHES property in Newton County.  Photo taken August 12, 2015.

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Apios americana

A large growth of ground nut (Apios americana) at the beginning of the Wet Prairie Trail (Unit K) at Kankakee Sands Nature Preserve in Newton County.

Photo taken August 28, 2015.

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One of the St. John's Wort species

Hypericum sp. at Fisher Oak Savanna, Newton County, possibly dwarf St. John's wort (Hypericum mutilum).

Photo taken August 12, 2015.


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Prairie Cordgrass

Prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata) on low-lying ground at Fisher Oak Savanna, Newton County.  This is in the same area as the woolgrass of the previous post.  This ground was dry at the time of the photo (August 12, 2015) but would have been underwater through the very wet June of this year.

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