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Birders Discover Rare Knee-High Plant Near Annapolis

1/22/2026

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In the summer of 2012, Jim Brighton and Bill Hubick, birders, found an unidentified knee-high plant with yellow star-shaped flowers while walking north of Annapolis.
They photographed the plant carefully for later identification.
The event documents a sighting by two birders during a woods walk north of Annapolis in 2012.

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Story summary

In the summer of 2012, Jim Brighton and Bill Hubick, birders, found an unidentified knee-high plant with yellow star-shaped flowers while walking north of Annapolis.
They photographed the plant carefully for later identification.
The event documents a sighting by two birders during a woods walk north of Annapolis in 2012.