Plants - Mystery Plants

I have been engaged in a self-study program of learning the plants of southern Ontario. When I go out for a hike, I try to identify the plants that I come across. However, sometimes I am not successful.  On some walks sometimes I have a friend along who helps in the identification, but sometimes they are not 100% sure either. In all these cases I take some photographs and try to identify the plants later using more books to refer to.
Even then, I am still sometimes unable to identify some of the plants! So, in an effort to learn the ones I can't identify, I am posting them on these pages.

If you can help, please email me.  Please include the plant number with your responses.

Thank you very much for your help!!

Please also check Mystery Plants on these other websites:

• Ontario Wildflowers Mystery Plants
• Ontario Trees & Shrubs Mystery Plants
• Ontario Ferns Mystery Plants
• Ontario Grasses Mystery Plants

• #90001
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 2012-09-15)
  Found at the side of the boardwalk at Oliphant Fen, Bruce Peninsula. These photos were taken in mid-August 2004.
• #90002
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 2011-06-16)
  Found on Flowerpot Island (Bruce Peninsula) in mid-June of 2009
• #90003
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  A small white-flowered plant found on Warner Bay Road at the top of the Bruce Peninsula, in mid-June 2006.
• #90004
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  A fancy-looking Cinquefoil of some sort. Found in Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario, in mid-June 2005.
• #90005
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  A dead seed head in September, near Brantford, Ontario. I didn\'t examine any other plant characteristics but I should have.
• #90006
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  An odd rosette near Hilton Falls, near Milton, Ontario. Mid-May 2005. Unfortunately I was not able to return to see what it grew into.
• #90007
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 2011-09-01)
  This plant was found at a couple of locations on the Bruce Peninsula: Gauley Bay and Oliphant Fen area. Early July 2010.
• #90008
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 0000-00-00)
  A small plant growing on a rock at the entrance to St. Jean's Point, on the Bruce Peninsula. Early July 2010.
• #90009
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  A large thistle, in the Saugeen Valley Canservation Authority Headquarters trails, near the sulphur springs.
• #90010
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  An unknown shrub, growing on one of my properties in Grey County.
• #90011
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  A shrub near Milton Ontario. End of December 2004.
• #90012
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  A large tree with rather plump buds. Near Cambridge, in the Puslinch Resource Management Area. I haven't been back in the spring or summer to see what it is.
• #90014
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  An unknown water plant near Allenford Ontario. Sep 2007.
• #90015
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  Sudden Tract, near Cambridge Ontario. Late Nov 2006.
• #90016
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01 (SOLVED 2012-09-26)
  Found along the Waterfront Trail in Hamilton, Ontario. Nov 2006.
• #90017
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  An unknown water plant. It looks like Cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis), but it's right in the water, so may not be. Dundas Valley, mid-Apr 2006.
• #90018
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-01
  Water plant, near Cambridge, Ontario. Early July 2007.
• #90019
  Added to Mystery Plants 2011-01-21
  An Elm, but with rather strange bark. Unfortunately this tree has now died (these photos were taken in 2003 and 2004). Near Cambridge, Ontario.