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The seals...how do you tell them apart?

agkistrodon
9 years ago

Found 3 plants today all roughly resembling Solomon's Seal. The first had single purplish berries hanging below the leaves...Solomon's seal, I thought. Then I saw a Solomon Seal look alike with a berry stem above the leaves....False Solomon's Seal...correct? THEN, I found a third "species"? Similar to Solomon's Seal but w/elongated reddish orange berries...

Then I googled and instead of finding something like northern solomons seal or wandering solomon's seal or some other descriptive common name I found that there are numerous (just plain)Solomon's Seal under the genus Polygonatum. Can anyone tell me which Solomon's Seals I found?

first pic is *I think* Polygonatum but which species?

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