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Found on edge of moist poplar forest near trail and drainage ditch.

Stamens 6, although very difficult to show in photos at this stage of flowering. Photo 6 showing half of inflorescence with 3 tepals and 3 stamens. Photo 8 showing 5 tepals and 5 stamens, with the other tepal and stamen destroyed trying to pull apart inflorescence for photographs.

Stems ridged and slightly glacous with a blueish green look.

Collected.

This leucistic individual is Salamander C. This one has been photographed and observed since 2010 many times by Don Scallen and it had at least been alive two years before that, making it thirteen years old- two years older then me!

All of the wild gingers (Asarum canadense sensu lato) I was able to find throughout this sandy floodplain forest had glabrous, short-acuminate, strongly reflexed petals like this plant. I am not sure how widespread this variety is in Canada, but certainly is expected to be Carolinian in distribution.

WDV 255 (to UWO).

Growing in 50-75cm of still water on deep organic soil along Dedrick's Creek with Ceratophyllum demersum.

Stipules are free (not adnate for any part of their length). Leaves ~2.2-2.4mm wide, all submersed. Stipules are fairly coarse (pulling them with tweezers takes some force to break them apart), whitish to brownish in colour. Leaf tips fairly sharp-pointed. Fruits smooth with no obvious ridge/keel. Leaves with few veins.

Credit goes to @pcareless for finding these beauties! I was looking at some half frozen Crematogaster sp. under a rock when I looked over and noticed that Phil was eating some things off the ground. He turned to me and said "Try this tasty crunch moss!" I assumed he was suffering from March Madness but he was right! They had the sweet crunchy tang of Buxbaumia! It was then that we came up with the idea for our forthcoming field guide entitled "A guide to identifying mosses by shoving them in your mouth"