
Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) at Paradise Creek Nature Park, in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) at Paradise Creek Nature Park, in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) at Paradise Creek Nature Park, in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Seed head, from an unidentified coneflower (Rudbeckia sp.), in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Seed head, from an unidentified coneflower (Rudbeckia sp.), in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Leaf scar, on a tree of heaven sapling (Ailanthus altissima), at Paradise Creek Nature Park in Portsmouth, Virginia.

Leaf scar, on a tree of heaven sapling (Ailanthus altissima), at Paradise Creek Nature Park in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Poking Through: A Christmas fern frond (Polystichum acrostichoides) emerging from the snow in the shade garden. This is our first day since the great snow that temperatures have been above freezing. Let the great thaw begin!
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Poking Through: A Christmas fern frond (Polystichum acrostichoides) emerging from the snow in the shade garden. This is our first day since the great snow that temperatures have been above freezing. Let the great thaw begin!
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Mixed community of resurrection fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides), sphagnum moss, and various lichens.
Found on the shaded north-facing trunks of trees in the churchyard at Buckhorn Baptist Church, Como, North Carolina.
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Mixed community of resurrection fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides), sphagnum moss, and various lichens.
Found on the shaded north-facing trunks of trees in the churchyard at Buckhorn Baptist Church, Como, North Carolina.
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