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Plant ID requested
Hi.
I'm wondering if anyone in this group can help me to ID a plant. I live in Ithaca, NY (in the Finger Lakes region), which has fairly rainy, temperate climate. The plant in question looks like a kind of false bamboo. It grows to about 9 feet and has palmate, bamboo-like leaves spaced alternately along a hollow, bamboo-like stalk. Dried stalks of dead plants are reedy and brittle. The "root" is a solid clump of tuberous tissue that usually looks black. It has a single tap root and shoots off many rhizomes to propagate other plants at an alarming rate. In fact, this plant is insanely prolific. It grows and reproduces very fast. It seems to like sandy soil that is (probably) also high in nitrogen. When it flowers in late Summer, it does so with small white flowers arranged closely around a single stem. I've noticed it mostly in areas that have been clear cut and plowed (like new hillsides at construction sites and along roadways). I refer to it as a "recovery plant." Any help to get me in the ballpark of genus and species would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! David |
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