#1-- Verbesina alternifolia, wingstem
#2-- looks like brown-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta) from here
#3-- definitely honeysuckle, but all these perfoliate (leaves forming a continuous disk around the stem) species look the same to me...
#5-- Cystopteris protrusa; I'm not sure of the common name offhand, but something like "lowland fragile fern" or something; if you look around right now there're probably lots of them looking all bright green & happy in wet bottomlands and things...

Patrick Alexander

patrick, you always impress me! all those small woodland ferns look alike to me. look how long it took me to post the pic of that fern i was speaking of last year. it now has more fronds than in that pic. after reading up on it now, i understand it is normal for them to die back no matter how well watered they are?

now i can go back to my fieldguide and mark some plants! i like to use my highlighter on the ones i see at work. thanks again.

On these little lowland Cystopteris, they basically act like spring ephemeral flowers. Great big pulse of growth in early spring, then they slowly die back through the summer until there are just a few tattered fronds by fall. Like other spring ephemerals, I assume this is more of an adaptation to light availability through the year rather than having anything to do with moisture. Interestingly, most other species in the genus grow on rock and don't seem to show any strong seasonal pattern apart from losing leaves in winter.

Patrick Alexader

i am going to have to look closer at my other one. i think that one used to grow on a rock wall (i try to save plants in danger of damage at work)

#2 looks an awful lot of Rudbeckia triloba to me. Read descriptions of both R. hirta and R. triloba and it should be easy to determine which it is.

Shelley

well, looking at the usda, triloba isn't as petaliforous -my new word, meaning many petals :)--- as hirta.
thank you, shelley. also, do you have a link to those descriptions? i am having a hard time.

on that note, i always thought that black eyed susan had those thick leaves that are fuzzy to the point of near downyness. my description sounds like lamb's ears, so not quite as fuzzy and thick as those.

See if these links help.

http://www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Rudbeckia_triloba_page.html

http://www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Rudbeckia_hirta_page.html

Shelley

Here is a link that might be useful: Rudbeckia triloba

simply put, i see triloba leaves are broader, and hirta has more hairs on the stem.

thank you for such wonderfully informative links(with good pics!) :)