September 21,   Nasketucket Bay State Reservation, Mattapoisett
This time a sea-myrtle population was found outside Cape Cod and quite away from the ocean front--in shrub thickets, where it has to compete with aggressive glossy buckthorn and does not attain its normal large size. Pictured with smooth aster ( Symphyotrichum laeve ) and deertongue grass ( Dichanthelium clandestinum ).