November 11,
Blue Hills Reservation, Milton
An unexpected encounter: a solitary huge clone (a few meters
in diameter) sinking in cattails at the graminoid fen in the
Neponset floodplain. Cranberries are also hiding here amidst tall cattails.
One may only try to imagine what the vegetation here used to be before the
cattail took over as a result of disturbance and eutrophication.