A FIND … nope, Two of Them !!!

Aug 6^th in Zone 7, grid 200, my 10yr old granddaughter and I, armed with AIS plant guides, we climbed onto my paddleboard and took off to search for and identify any plant growths either growing on the lake floor or floating along the shoreline that we might encounter.

We started off finding:

Spiral pondweed bits crowded up against one of our dock support posts.

Pipeworts, with no flowers, right off our shore that we dug up and investigated to confirm that they were not Quillwort, a Pipewort lookalike … they had the stripes on their roots (where quillwort doesn’t.)

Bits and pieces of bladderwort of 2 different sorts floating about

Bits and pieces of Elodea floating about

Plots of Aquatic moss growing on rocks that I have been monitoring near the Whalen’s dock (grid 200)

AND THEN, just after their dock, the two of us spun around and Kay almost lost her mind when I pulled up a colony of Bryozoan wrapped around a stick that was lying on the floor of the lake close to the shore. 

See attached + a close up of the gelatinous skin it has.

To top that off, on the very next day as the family was swimming off of our boat, Kay spied another Bryozoan of equal size from the day before, but this one was stuck to the one large rock in Lower Penacook that Don marked on map 12 (grid 429)

I will take a moment next week to go back and take a photo of that one too.

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