Japanese knotweed
Fallopia japonica
NOT FOUND by YellowSquirrels2011-10-11
Gardiner
ID Confirmed
Quality checked by grms2011
Peer reviewed by greenbeans2011
Field Notes
FIELD NOTES
DAY 1
WE hear the kids in our class running and talking about their object.Also we hear the singing of birds in the distance.We smelled the wet grass and leaves.IT SMELLS LIKE FALL! Some of the problems we ran into was we knew it was a species but we didn’t know if it was ours.We are surprised by what we found because in our area there are more than 1 types species.Also “because it was so easy to find a lot of different species” said one of our members of our team.Also the species we fond looked a lot like the species we where looking for.
DAY 2
Today is the second day of our adventure.
Supporting Evidence
Not as tall as it said it was. Smaller than a 2 foot tree... But the Knotweed said it was almost 3 m tall.
Place Studied
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Latitude:
N 44.218370 °
Longitude:
W -69.803050 °
Trip Information
Name:
Gardiner Middle School
Trip date:
Tue, 2011-10-11 09:01
Town or city:
Gardiner
Type of investigation:
Species and Habitat Survey
Ecosystem:
Upland
Watershed:
Lower Kennebec
Habitat Observations
Species diversity:
10 different species
Evidence of vectors:
Tree canopy cover:
Soil moisture:
Dry
Comments
adventures
I also LOVE that you are approaching this as an adventure... Makes me want to tag along!
species, species, all around
Hi YellowSquirrels,
You all did a thorough job of collecting evidence - awesome! And I completely agree with your conclusion. Definitely not knotweed.
I'm glad you noticed that there were a lot of species around. Amazing what you see when you start looking, isn't it?