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<\/a>Scene 1 – Dining room table, from left:\u00a0Eutrochium maculatum, Limonium carolinianum, Carex lupulina, Asclepias syriaca, Iva frutescens<\/em> (top right), and Panicum virgatum<\/em> (bottom right)<\/p><\/div>\n Scene 2 – Living room, from top: Scirpus cyperinus, Iva frutescens<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n Scene 3 – Dining room round table (aka the Graminoid table), clockwise from top right: Schizachyrium scoparium, Cyperus diandrus, Echinochloa walteri, Schoenoplectus acutus, Cyperus strigosus, Schoenoplectus pungens<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n Since we also have to collect specimens, our\u00a0plant press is also very full:<\/p>\n Ran out of blotting paper…newspaper will have to do.<\/p><\/div>\n Despite the sudden rapid pace of collection, we are working hard and I think we are much more efficient at finding all the target seeds that we need on this giant plant scavenger hunt. \u00a0The time is flying by…soon it will be November, we will have made >200 collections, and our two dozen aluminum trays will be filled with–not seeds–but turkeys and stuffing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the past month, the New England SOS team’s seed collections have surged from 32 collections on 8\/25 to 120 on 9\/25–just about everything is fruiting in the narrow growing season of America’s northeast. \u00a0A month ago we were collecting … Continue reading <\/a><\/a><\/a>