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Photos from TCH near Paradise Village on 2010-Jun03:
Northern-small-variety yellow ladyslipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var makasin): plant Large-variety yellow ladyslipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var pubescens): bud

Photos from Hadashville Ski Trails on 2010-Jun03:
unidentified Mushroom (Fungi sp): unidentified Mushroom (Fungi sp): from below Sandwort (Arenaria sp): plant White lettuce (Prenanthes alba): leaf Richardsons alumroot (Heuchera richardsonii): foliage Hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens): clump Three-toothed potentilla (Potentilla tridentata): Northern starflower (Trientalis borealis): Northern starflower (Trientalis borealis): flowers Moccasin ladyslipper (Cypripedium acaule): plant Moccasin ladyslipper (Cypripedium acaule): flower closeup showing open crack Moccasin ladyslipper (Cypripedium acaule): flower closeup showing open crack Hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens): flowers Feathery solomons-seal (Maianthemum racemosum)?: plant Feathery solomons-seal (Maianthemum racemosum)?: plant Feathery solomons-seal (Maianthemum racemosum)?: flowers Wintergreen (Pyrola sp): seedpods Wintergreen (Pyrola sp): seedpods closer Drummonds rockcress (Arabis drummondii): plant bad unidentified Beetle (Coleoptera sp):

Note: the plants in photos 17076, 17086, 17083 are either Star-flowered solomons-seal (Maianthemum stellatum), or Feathery solomons-seal (Maianthemum racemosum);  here are the distinguishing characteristics that I've gleaned from various sources:

M racemosum M stellatum
flowers in a panicle flowers in a raceme
flowers are 2–5mm flowers are 8–10mm across
berries speckled, turning red berries are striped, turning red when ripe
plant 50–90 cm plant 15–45 cm

The flowers in my photos are in a many-branched panicle, and that indicates M racemosum;  however the flower-size indicates M stellatum;  the height of the plant was around 45 or 50cm which doesn't help.  (I didn't wait around for the berries:)

There is confusion in these names;  racemosum means 'having a raceme' and yet to identify M racemosum one looks for flowers in a panicle, not a raceme.  I was already thinking the online references were badly done on these Maianthemum species, when I came to the FNA's article on M racemosum;  they call it Large false Solomon’s-seal, then give its height as "to 12.5 cm" (5 inches);  12.5 dm was probably intended.  All those people working on the FNA for all those years yet such blatant errors remain.