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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yes, thanks Margaret. And two very good taxonomists in Virginia, Gary Fleming and Tom Wieboldt have looked at it and would surely have said so if they didn’t think it was C. incisa.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If anyone wants pictures of the plants I found on Monday, send me an email at my cvilleruth address and I will send you 2 pictures of what I found.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ruth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Margaret Chatham [mailto:margaret.chatham@verizon.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 06, 2016 4:28 PM<br><b>To:</b> Swearingen, Jil; Ruth Douglas<br><b>Cc:</b> maipc@lists.maipc.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [MAIPC] Corydalis incisa: be on the lookout<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Purple or white flower color looks like a pretty clear identifier — according to Flora of Virginia, we only have one native Corydalis: the much smaller yellow-flowered C. flavula. C. sempervirens has pink flowers ( & has been renamed Capnoides sempervirens). Then there is Fumaria officinalis with round seedpods — and it isn’t native.<br><br>Margaret<br>On 4/6/16 12:44 PM, "Swearingen, Jil" <<a href="mailto:jil_swearingen@nps.gov">jil_swearingen@nps.gov</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Ruth,<br><br>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.<br><br>Thank you!<br><br>Jil<br><br>On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Ruth Douglas <<a href="mailto:cvilleruth@embarqmail.com">cvilleruth@embarqmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<br> <br>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.<br> <br>I don’t think I can attach a picture, but here is a link to a photo <a href="http://www.henriettes-herb.com/galleries/photos/c/co/corydalis-incisa-1.html">http://www.henriettes-herb.com/galleries/photos/c/co/corydalis-incisa-1.html</a> <br> <br>And here is a link to a plants profile <a href="http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=COIN21">http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=COIN21</a> <br> <br>Ruth Douglas<br>Charlottesville, VA<br> <br> <br></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><br>_______________________________________________<br>MAIPC mailing list<br><a href="mailto:MAIPC@lists.maipc.org">MAIPC@lists.maipc.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.maipc.org/listinfo.cgi/maipc-maipc.org">http://lists.maipc.org/listinfo.cgi/maipc-maipc.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>