Two more weeds in Maine

2 Pages·2000·0.63 MB·English

by  P F Zika

RHODORA,
Vol. 102, No. 910, 208-209, 2000
pp.
NEW
ENGLAND NOTE
TWO MORE WEEDS MAINE
IN
PnTER ZlKA
F.
Box
Herbarium, Depl. of Botany, 355325,
WA
University of Washington, 98195-5325
Seattle,
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was Maine
Senecio viscosus L. (Asteraceae) discovered in in
August 1969 by Frank Seymour on a field trip of the Josselyn
Botanical Society. His specimen {Seymour 27886 vx) from a
is
roadside the foot of Boarstone Mt., Eliolville, Piscataquis Co.
at
(Seymour 1982). This collection was overlooked by recent au-
Maine Campbell Haines and Vining
thors 1995;
in (e.g., et al.
was Maine
1998). Senecio viscosus found again in in July 1999,
McLean
as a weed at both ends of a culvert on Route 162, where
Brook enters the southwestern arm of Long Lake (Zika 13921
The
NEBC, WTU). dry, gravelly, and sunny, an elevation
site at
is
WELS,
of 180 m, T17 R4 Aroostook Co. About 100 plants
in
were seen, growing with Plantago major L. Senecio viscosus
is
known Nova
European
a native, as an occasional adventive
in
Scotia and in the northeastern United States.
A
second addition to the flora of Maine Corynephorus ca-
is
nescens (L.) Beauv. (Poaceae), collected in July 1999 as a rare
km
weed lA
on Route
in a cultivated cranberry crop about 2 east
town 13946 The
of the Millbridge line {Zika nebc). inconspicuous
plants were sunny, moist, and sandy an elevation of 12
in soil, at
meters, the town of Harrington, Washington Co. Angelo and
in
Boufford (1998) recorded European grass from southeastern
this
New
nowhere The
Massachusetts, but else in England. species
is
similar to Festuca ovina L. in general habit, and perhaps over-
is
looked.
LITERATURE CITED
AND Boumord. New
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Camphhll, C. S. et 1995. Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Maine, 3rd
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rev. Bull. 844, Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station, Univ.
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and E Manual
Hainf-s, a. T. ViNiNCi. 1998. Flora of Maine, a for Identifi-
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New
England Note 209
2000]
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