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Subject: Re: wet, indeed
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>In a message dated 11199 6:27:01 AM, Gus asked:
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>> Is it sure that these specimens grow all the year through in boggy
>>conditions? Think to some of our alpine boggy meadows. They are boggy
>>when snow melts in spring, but perfectly dry in winter....
>>Guy

Jim answered:   >The ones that I'm referring to are close to us and grow =in
a flood plain that stays quite wet all year. .....
>
>I think that ssp. stewardsonii is also supposed to grow in very wet
>conditions, but I've not seen it in the wild.

Both A. triphyllum and A. dracontium are naturalized in at least one of t=he
wetlands here, a flood plain by Lake Cayuga.  It is the only place I know
where I am sure to find the latter.  It sneaks out of the woods into the
open sunlight, at one point seeding itself into the railroad bed which
enforced a very dwarf growth habit. (grin) The ssp stewardsonii also grow=s
wet, much wetter than A. triphyllum, but prefers moraine conditions such =as
the gravel verges of the steam beds.  It tolerates the yard here in a
raised bed of heavy clay, watered in the summer, sets some seed some year=s
but has never attained the robust three foot stature that I have seen it
assume in the wild.

I'll confirm with one of our natural resource people but I as I remember
individual A triphyllum, growing under the conditions mentioned above, ge=t
themselves up a bit onto the tufts of grassy hummock whereas A. dracontiu=m,
particularly when I have seen it in the spring, tends to be densest in th=e
muckier areas.

Nina Lambert