Sunday, January 17, 2010

Plant Quiz... Solved: Tilia americana, American Basswood

This is a tree seedling. The mature leaves look nothing like this. It puzzled me for years, and while I believe I know what it is, I'm still not sure. The expertise on this blog should provide a solid answer!

5 comments:

Cdr said...

Hi Keith,

I believe that is a basswood (Tilia americana) seedling. I was seeing that last spring while doing Plants of Concern monitoring in an oak-sugar maple woodland. The woman I was with later asked one of her co-workers what it was and they said it was basswood. I suppose they could be wrong but it made sense based on the habitat and the number of large basswoods in the area.

Cheers!
Andrew

Scott Namestnik said...

I agree with the Commander.

Keith Board said...

Thanks guys. That's what I thought it was (no kidding).

Good call Commander, and nice picture -I can almost hear Loons in the background.

Bradford Slaughter said...

Keith, can you hear my gunshots peppering the night's game?

Cdr said...

Keith,

Thanks for the compliment on my photo although I can only hope that someday I take as good as photos as you do. My photo is from (you guessed it) God's country (aka Starke County, IN).