Can anyone identify either of these plants?

Plant one: Blueberries

Plant two: Hard to say without its flowers. Looks like a type of iris to me.

Are you sure they are blue berries? They are growing in a swampish lake behind my college, right near a bridge.

I think the second photo is of some small reeds.

@asmonet They are not reeds but thank you. I happened to already look at all the species of reeds and none of them match the plant.

@SpatzieLover Now that I am thinking about it and comparing they definitely are not blueberries. The area in which you are mistaking it for a blue berry looks like it is more of a bud, or some other type of berry. It is more like a casing around something. Thank you though.

@Trance24 Wish I could take a pic, but it’s raining and rather dark here. I have blueberries. That pic looks like wild blueberries to me

They do not always take on a “bush” form. Often in the wild you’ll see a shoot here & a shoot there.

Wild blueberries can grow exactly like that and in the water as well. In fact they flourish in and near the water. I was just picking some last summer that looked like that, except they were ripe and not dead. Yum!

They are not blueberries but clearly and unequivocably yellow husks around a red berry…making it…

American Bittersweet vine.

I can’t help with plant number two; it looks like a young wild iris or cattail but I’m guessing. Where do you live?

@gailcalled I have bittersweet in my yard & the berries have never looked like blueberries to me

@gailcalled I have been looking at more of those pictures of bittersweet berries, and have compared them to the pictures of my plant I think you are onto something. I live in New Jersey attending Stockton College in the pine barrens.

@LostInParadise might know. He spends a lot of time volunteering at various nature preserves up your way.

@PandoraBoxx Thank you I shall do that. I am also considering going to the botany professor here at my college. Ill let you all know when the case has been solved.

@Trance: Bittersweet is showing its red berries now with thin yellow casing lying on the ground; blueberry season is over. Bittersweet would grow wild in New Jersey as they do in New York State. (One of my kids went to Camp Darkwater, in the Pine Barrens. You know why it is called Darkwater, I am sure.)

I’ll put money on the first one being Bittersweet.

Here is a close up of the first plant
@gailcalled I pass Camp Darkwater every time I go to uber’s house, well when I am home anyways.

@Trance24: Now that picture does not look like Bittersweet. There seem to be too many pips inside the casing. And BS does not root in shallow water. It grows on disturbed edges of dirt roads, where road crews have been, or highway mowers have mowed the shoulders. Curious.

(There is an outhouse at CDW called The John Harkins, named after the former Head of the lower school where I worked in Philly. It was a Quaker school.)

@gailcalled Yea that was the only thing about the plant that made me think it might not be the BS. I am curious as to what this plant is.

Maybe this wetlands identification site can help you narrow it down.

The second plant seems to be a form of water grass that I have seen around here, cattails do not grow in flowing water, and that looks like a flowing stream, unless I am perceiving the picture wrong.

The water grass could be star grass. http://www.frogsonice.com/photos/june-fells/stargrass.jpg

if you search for plants native to your area, you will most likely find out the names of the plants you are trying to identify. google something like ....native plants in (your area).

Questions like this are why I lurve Fluther. I can always learn cool things.

@PandoraBoxx: That small, six-petaled yellow flower looks like either a marsh marigold or a wild buttercup and should be attached to heart-shaped leaves.Both bloom in damp (marsh marigold in mush or standing water) but in the early spring in NJ.