[MAIPC] Corydalis incisa: be on the lookout

Swearingen, Jil jil_swearingen at nps.gov
Wed Apr 6 09:44:44 PDT 2016


Ruth,

Just to be sure.. How do you know that this is incisa? There are a lot of
native Corydalis as I'm sure you know... Some look like this. I just want
to be sure the identification is correct.

Thank you!

Jil

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Ruth Douglas <cvilleruth at embarqmail.com>
wrote:

> Last year around the end of April I went looking for possible Corydalis
> incisa along Red Bud Creek, near my home in Albemarle Co. VA. I found
> probably 40 plants in bloom and starting to go to seed. I pulled up all
> those I saw and flagged the area. This year I went back on April 3 and
> found about 15 plants in bloom nearby, but not yet going to seed, and
> pulled them all and again flagged the area.
>
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> In the last several days I have heard of two more infestations in
> Virginia, one more in Albemarle Co. and one in Madison Co., both in
> extensive private native plant gardens. I don’t know if the plant
> hitchhiked in with another plant purchased from a supplier or whether the
> owner planted them without realizing that they could be very invasive; I
> will investigate that.
>
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> I don’t think I can attach a picture, but here is a link to a photo
> http://www.henriettes-herb.com/galleries/photos/c/co/corydalis-incisa-1.html
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> And here is a link to a plants profile
> http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=COIN21
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> Ruth Douglas
>
> Charlottesville, VA
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