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syn. Diplazium pycnocarpon (Spreng.) M.Broun, growing in a mature mesophytic forest with a diverse understory. No. 870821006.

See also: https://michiganflora.net/record/527 and
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:123746-2

On a branch of a Tulip Poplar, Liriodendron tulipifera.

UPPER SURFACE

• black cilia: present at margin
• isidia: profuse, cylindric, non-ciliate
• soredia: absent
• apothecia: absent

LOWER SURFACE

• rhizinate to margin
• dark brown

Several of these were patiently waiting for any of the abundant Mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis to pass below. Just after I mentioned this to my companion, one of the spiders made an attempt, but failed.

I like the neat rhyme "Sedges have edges, Rushes are round, Grasses have nodes all the way to the ground" (most of the time): joint-like nodes (where the leaf sheath ends) are found along round, hollow grass stems, stems of sedges & rushes are solid; in cross-section the stems of rushes are round, sedges are triangular (giving them edges, but they have no nodes, & triangular-stem sedges have 3-ranked leaves, leaves arranged on all 3 sides of the stem; like sedges, rush stems also have no nodes)... common names (some of the time) can confuse: Broomsedge is a grass, not a sedge; Bulrush and Woolgrass are sedges, not a rush, nor a grass

growing on a small glacial outwash deposit near the top of a steep slope, DNA sample is one of four upper stem leaves and a portion of the inflorescence. No. 870611017.
See also: https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/Asclepias/quadrifolia/
and
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/70941394

For the Peatland Sheetweb Weaver (Hypselistes florens) spider, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/207238913
For this Hemp Dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum) 2 days later, cf. inaturalist.org/observations/207517818