TOPIC: Can anyone identify this plant?

While on the scouting trip with Hugh on the 15th, I took a pictures of quite a few plants with my cell phone's camera. I wish that I had taken one of my' digital cameras so that the pics would be of better color, clarity and pixel quality! I took a picture of this plant thinking that this is Skunk Cabbage but now I am unsure as to what it is! If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated!


Frank

Pic #2

I am leaning towards Lady Slipper! Can anyone confirm or dispel whether it is or not?


Frank

Some of these have 7 leaves while others have 6, all extending outward sort of like a star from the stem. I believe that these plants will eventually have a long skinny stem extending up from this leaf structure that may grow a bloom. However, since these have not been up very long due to the colder mountain location, the upper stem has yet to grow!

Frank


Pic #1

Pic #2

I do not think the last pic is the same plant as the first pic. I am sure tho that neither is skunk cabbage. Skunk cabbage is much larger almost like a giant hosta and the leaves are really broad. Skunk cabbage likes really wet low lying areas too. Skunk cabbage is really smelly. Doesn't smell much like a skunk but it smells like rotten potatoes mixed with rotten onions. Really smelly stuff. Just take a leaf and pull it off the plant and smell it and you will see what I mean.
Latt

Latt wrote:

I do not think the last pic is the same plant as the first pic. I am sure tho that neither is skunk cabbage. Skunk cabbage is much larger almost like a giant hosta and the leaves are really broad. Skunk cabbage likes really wet low lying areas too. Skunk cabbage is really smelly. Doesn't smell much like a skunk but it smells like rotten potatoes mixed with rotten onions. Really smelly stuff. Just take a leaf and pull it off the plant and smell it and you will see what I mean.
Latt

Right! The first two pics are of a plant which I first thought was Skunk Cabbage but now believe may be Lady Slipper or a close look-alike. I have found these plants in bottom land along a river in the mountains at about 1,500 to 2,000 feet in elevation but also growing around springs, creeks and streams in the higher mountains at elevations up to around 4,500 feet in elevation.

The third and fourth pics are not of the same plant as in the first two pics! They are of a completely different plant that I was hoping someone can help identify.


Frank

Plant number two is Starflower I believe. My property is loaded with them (several per sq/ft in most areas). They can grow little white star shaped flowers. Also they can grow several tiers of leaves. Their scientific name is Trientalis Borealis. Do an image search on their scientific name to get lots of images.

Ittiz wrote:

Plant number two is Starflower I believe. My property is loaded with them (several per sq/ft in most areas). They can grow little white star shaped flowers. Also they can grow several tiers of leaves. Their scientific name is Trientalis Borealis. Do an image search on their scientific name to get lots of images.

Ittiz,

I believe that you are right and thanks!


Frank