#schoenoplectus

Greene county, Pearls fen, Ohio

Helenium autumnale

Autumn sneeze weed

Fairly simple since it’s only close look alike is our purple headed sneeze weed, although its a super close look a like with similar habit. Autumn sneeze weed forms singular leaves at each node where purple forms a rosette sometimes instead of branching off more. The Autumn has canada goldenrod like serations to minute serrations along the margin where we see an entire look for the purple. both are winged pubescent to glaborous, clump forming, branching only to form capitulescence and alternate. 

Schoenoplectus acutus

hard-stemmed club-bulrush, one of the three sided species but unlike three square which has a minute bloom mid stem, this species is rounded in at the edges and has an apical bloom.

Bidens trichosperma

Marsh Beggers Ticks,

Decent population of 

Schoenoplectus pungens