Per 2 Plant/Animal Vernal Pool Field Guide by Kristina Woods https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb Please provide a link to your field guide entry. If you copy and paste the content of the doc, it may not show the picture. en-us 2020-12-03 14:49:32 UTC 2025-11-14 13:05:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f99a.png Ryley Spetrini ryleyspetrini26_494 https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984161982 Common name of your organism: Woolgrass

Scientific name: Scipus Cyperinus

Brief description of the organism:

This sedge is very variable in appearance. In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. The fertile stems grow upright. There are five to ten leaves per stem. They are up to 80 centimeters long by 1 centimeter wide. The proximal ones have green or reddish sheaths. The inflorescence has upright or spreading branches bearing cymes of up to 15 spikelets each. The spikelet is cylindrical or oval and measures up to 0.8 centimeters in length. It is covered in reddish, brownish, or black scales. The flowers have six long bristles each, making the inflorescence look woolly.


This plant grows in many types of wet habitat, such as marshes and ponds. It can be found in disturbed habitat, such as ditches.


This plant often hybridizes with its relatives Scirpus atrocintus and S. pedicellatus.


Native Americans  used this plant for a number of purposes. The Ojibwa people used it to make bags and mats, and the Potawatomi people used it to stuff pillowa.



]]> 2020-12-03 15:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984161982 Samantha Miceli samanthamiceli26_782 https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984203021 Common name of your organism: 
Venus fly trap
Scientific name:
 Dionaea muscipula
 
 Brief description of the organism: 
The Venus fly trap eats insects like fly's to get its energy.


]]> 2020-12-03 15:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984203021 Ryley Spetrini ryleyspetrini26_494 https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984213829 Common name of your organism: Eastern Newt

Scientific name: Notophthalmus viridescens

Brief description of the organism:

The eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) is a common newt of eastern North America. It frequents small lakes, ponds, and streams or nearby wet forests. The eastern newt produces tetrodotoxin, which makes the species unpalatable to predatory fish and crayfish. It has a lifespan of 12 to 15 years in the wild, and it may grow to 5 in (13 cm) in length. These animals are common aquarium pets, being either collected from the wild or sold commercially. The striking bright orange juvenile stage, which is land-dwelling, is known as a red eft. Some sources blend the general name of the species and that of the red-spotted newt subspecies into the eastern red-spotted newt (although there is no "western" one).


]]> 2020-12-03 15:45:24 UTC https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984213829 Hope kelleher hopekelleher26_155 https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984301349 Common name of your organism:  Buttonbush

Scientific name: cephalanthus occidentails

 Brief description of the organism: 
Buttonbush is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. They can reach up to 12 or 6 feet. They have dark green, glossy leaves. 


]]> 2020-12-03 16:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984301349 Kennedy Walton kennedywalton26_165 https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984309414 Common name of your organism: Fairy Shrimp

Scientific name: Anostraca 

 Brief description of the organism: 
Fairy Shrimp are recognized by having no external shell, two compound eyes, and two sets of antennae. They are found in vernal pools.


]]> 2020-12-03 16:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984309414 Kennedy Walton kennedywalton26_165 https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984357327  Common name of your organism: Pale Spikerush  

Scientific name: Eleocharis Macrostachya 


 Brief description of the organism
Member of the rush family. Rushes are closely related to grasses. Each flower is made up of a tiny bract and the stamens and pistil. The flowers are arranged in a cluster that looks like a tiny (up to 8 mm long) pine cone.
]]> 2020-12-03 16:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/984357327 hope k hopekelleher26_155 https://padlet.com/falmouthps/npt5cwweyb34vrkb/wish/985606003 Common name of your organism: spotted salamander 

Scientific name: Ambystoma maculatum.

 Brief description of the organism:  The spotted salamander is the state amohibian oh Ohio and south carolina. its lives up to 20 years. It can get up to 7 inches.




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