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Fruit from tall (2 meter), dead, herbaceous plants.

Growing on a frequently mowed roadside.

Reminiscent of small skunk cabbages.

Destroyer of sweaters.

The last photo is of a seedling, derived from the plants pictured, photographed a couple of months later.

With developing fruit.

Growing in a very dry, frequently mowed roadside lawn.

A weed with potted plants.

Lawn weed.

A substantial weed in pots and a yard.

Serpentine soil area.

Growing wild in a field.

A weed in a pot, the source seed probably from contaminated potting soil.

Probable descendants of this plant:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197966899

A weed in a frequently mowed area, near a mature plant of this species.

Germinating as weeds in garden beds and sometimes lawns, usually persisting for up to a couple of years, until they get weeded or mowed out of existence.

Walking around on leaves of a shrub of Edgeworthia chrysantha.

Naturally occurring tree in a small woodland remnant.

Leaves abaxially glabrous, pedicels short.

Weedy, shrubby trees growing near the edge of a woodland.

Seedling photographed nearly one year later.

Growing on a frequently mowed roadside.

Chiococca pinetorum in some floras.

My thanks to Roger Hammer for bringing me to this site.

Abundant on fallen branchlets in this area. Galls represented here were beneath the trees shown in the last photo.

Growing in a sphagnum bog.

A weed in a lawn and garden beds.

My thanks to Roger Hammer for bringing me to this site.

Small shrub about 2ft tall.

Naturally occurring tree at the edge of a forest, not cultivated.

Huge plant around 2ft tall.

Growing in a swampy/boggy area in some shade.

Weedy vine.

Creeping along the ground over oolitic limestone and leaf litter, in a microscopic remnant of pine rockland habitat.

Apparently rhizomatous plants growing in damp soil by a woodland pond.

My thanks to Albert Garofalo for showing me this site.

Growing on damp soil at a spot that's normally inundated for at least part of the year.

My thanks to Albert Garofalo for showing me this site.

Growing in moist soil in an open meadow that is becoming less open year after year.

A smelly, puffball-like fungus, growing in somewhat damp soil under oaks and maples.

A sad shrub that kept getting mowed in its small remnant of a natural habitat. My thanks to Ken King for bringing me to this site.