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Acorus americanus |
Sweet flag - S/ES - N Leaves are basal, sword-like, 2 to 6 feet long and about ½ inch wide, bright green, with an off-center midvein that is slightly swollen in cross-section. The base of leaves are typically white or tinged red. Leaves are sweetly fragrant when broken. |
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Acorus calamus - Sweet flag
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Sweet flag - S/ES - I? leaves sword shaped, 2 1/2 to 3 feet with one main midrib Rizome roots |
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Agalinis purpurea
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Purple false foxglove - UM/S - N Single flowers on slender stalks less than ¼ inch long arising from the leaf axils. Flowers are ½ to 1 inch long, 1/3 to 1 inch across (depending on variety), the tubular throat white with pinkish purple spots and 5 light pink to purple lobes, finely hairy around the edges, that flare out around the mouth of the tube. The lower 3 lobes are often curved up at the edges, the 2 upper lobes are slightly smaller and more opened with dense hairs into the throat. Inside the tube are creamy white tipped stamens and a single white style. The fused sepals forming the calyx have 5 sharp lance-like teeth. Leaves are 1 to 2 inches long, linear, toothless, stalkless, with a prominent central vein, oppositely attached, may be rough textured on the upper surface and are sometimes purple tinged. Occasionally smaller leaves develop in the axils. Stems are angled and smooth or slightly rough to the touch, and mostly erect. |
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Agalinis tenufolia |
Slender-leaf false foxglove - S - N Single flowers on slender stalks ½ to ¾ inch long arise from leaf axils on many branching stems. Flowers are about ½ inch long and 1/3 inch across with 5 pink to purple finely hairy rounded lobes, fused into a shallow cup-like white throat spotted pinkish purple and greenish at the back. The 2 upper lobes form a hood over the white stamens, with the lower 3 lobes flaring open and slightly rolled back. The fused sepals forming the calyx have short sharply triangular teeth. Leaves are linear, ¾ to 2 inches long, less than 1/8 inch wide, toothless, hairless, stalkless, with a prominent central vein, oppositely attached. Stems are angled and smooth to the touch. Leaves and stems can turn dark reddish purple in drier conditions. |
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Agastache foeniculum |
Lavender Hyssop - UD/UM - N Leaves are up to 4 inches long and 2 inches wide, with a rounded base, pointed tip, coarsely toothed edges and a short stem. The underside of the leaves are grayish, covered with fine hairs. Like all members of the Mint family, the stem is square; it may be slightly hairy as well. |
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Agastache nepetoides |
Yellow Giant Hyssop - UM Leaves are thin, generally egg-shaped, rounded to nearly heart-shaped at the base, pointed at the tip, with coarsely toothed edges and fine hairs on the lower surface. Lower leaves are up to 6 inches long including a 2 inch stalk, to 3 inches wide; the upper leaves are smaller. Stems are stout and strongly four-angled, heavily branched throughout, typically smooth but sometimes with minute soft hairs, especially on the the leaf stalk. |
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Alisma subcordatum |
Common water plantain - S/ES - N Leaf position:some of the leaves are floating at the surface of the water Leaf arrangement: leaves growing only at the base of the plant (basal) Leaf blade length:Up to 150 mm Petal or sepal number: three petals, sepals, or tepals in the flower Specific leaf type:the leaf is not divided, rather the blade is made up of one segment Floating leaf shape: leaf blade is elliptic (widest near the middle and tapering at both ends)the leaf blade is ovate (widest below the middle and broadly tapering at both ends) |
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Allium cernuum
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Nodding Onion - UM - N Leaves are grass-like, up to 22 inches long and ¼ inch wide, keeled along the mid-rib and sheathing the stem near the soil line, appearing to be basal. The central flowering stem, which rises above the leaves, is stiff and smooth. One or more stems may arise from the underground bulbs, which are elongated and taper to the stem. |
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Ammophila breviligulata |
Dune grass - UD/UM - N |
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Amorpha canescens |
Leadplant - UD/UM - N Growing in shrubs up to three feet tall, Lead Plant is topped by spike-like masses of tiny purple blossoms. Each flower has a single 1/4"-long petal curling around 10 orange-tipped stamens. Compound leaves may have as many as 50 leaflets. Each leaflet is about ¾ inch long and is generally oval to egg-shaped, rounded at both ends. Leaves are covered in fine white hairs, giving them a woolly grayish appearance. Main stems are brown and woody; the few branching stems are typically grayish green from fine white |
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Amorpha fruticosa
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False Indigo Bush - UM/S - N
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Andropogon gerardii
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Big Bluestem - UD/UM - N
Turkey Foot. Leaves are mostly crowded on the lower stem with few in the upper plant. Leaves are mostly flat, green to blue-green, up to 18 inches long and to ½ inch wide, becoming shorter as they ascend the stem. The upper surface is rough textured, often with long, white, spreading hairs near the base. The sheath is open, forming a distinct “V” at the front. The ligule (membrane where the leaf joins the sheath) is white to brownish and up to 2.5 mm long. Nodes are hairless and purplish. The culm (stem) is erect, hairless, few branched and often bluish to purple with a waxy bloom. Plants can create large clumps from short rhizomes. |
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Andropogon virginicus
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Broom Sedge bluestem - UD/UM/S - N
1½-3' tall, forming a dense erect tuft of flowering culms. Straw-colored remnants of older leaves and culms are usually present while new leaves and culms are developing. Culms of the current year are light to medium green, glabrous or hairy, and terete to slightly flattened; they are largely hidden by the sheaths. Each culm is unbranched below, but it develops short branching culms above where the inflorescence occurs. Alternate leaves occur along the entire length of the culm, although they are more common below. The leaf blades are 3-12" long and 2-7 mm. across; they are erect, ascending, or widely spreading. The leaf blades are dull light to medium green and mostly glabrous, except toward their bases, where long hairs usually occur along their upper sides or margins. Leaf sheaths are dull light to medium green, somewhat inflated, somewhat flattened, and open; they are usually glabrous, although some long hairs may occur along their sides and upper margins. |
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Anemone canadensis
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Meadow Anemone - UM/S - N eaves are deeply divided into 3 to 5 wedge-shaped lobes (3 is most common), the lobes further divided and with pointed tips, the edges coarsely toothed and surfaces finely hairy. The 1 to 5 basal leaves are long-stalked, generally round in outline and 3 to 6 inches long At the top of the stem is a whorl of 3 stalkless leaves, about 5 inches in diameter and similar in shape to the basal leaves. The long flower stalks arise from the center of the whorl. Stems are erect and sparsely hairy. Fruit is a round cluster of flattened, generally oval, beaked seeds. |
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Anemone cylindrica |
Thimbleweed - UD/UM - N
2 to 8 long-stalked flowers arising from a whorl of leaves at the top of the stem, sometimes with a pair of leaf-like bracts about midway up a stalk. Individual flowers are ¾ inch across with 5 pointed, hairy, greenish white, petal-like sepals and numerous yellowish stamens around a gray-green cone-like center. The cone is about twice as long as wide while the flower blooms |
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Anemone virginiana |
Tall anemone - UD/UM - N |
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Angelica atropurpurea |
Great angelica - S - N Convex to round clusters (umbels) 4 to 9 inches across, made up of 20 to 45 smaller round clusters (umbellets) of 20 to 45 flowers each. Flower stalks are about ½ inch long and umbellet stalks are 2 to 4 inches long. The star-shaped flowers are green to whitish, about ¼ inch across, with 5 petals, 5 spidery stamens, a divided style in the center and 5 pointed oval sepals around the base. Lower leaves are 3 or 4 times compound and very large, up to 2 feet long and as wide, with 3 to 5 leaflets on a branch. Leaflets are up to 4 inches long and 2 inches wide, the upper leaves reduced in size, lance elliptic, sometimes with one or two deep lobes, especially the end leaflet. Edges are sharply toothed, surfaces mostly smooth or with fine hairs on the underside. Leaf stalks are long with a large green to purple sheath at the base. Stems are stout and smooth with a hollow core, and are purple in color at maturity. |
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Aquilegia canadensis |
Wild columbine - UD/UW/S - N Leaves are compound in groups of 3, basal and alternating up the slender stem. Leaflets are up to 2½ inches long and wide, notched and/or lobed in 2 or 3 segments, on short stalks, the lobes and notches rounded at the tip. Leaves in the flower clusters are reduced to bracts, stalkless or nearly so, and may be more elliptic without lobes or notches. The stem may be slightly hairy, especially on the upper part of the plant. |
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Arisaema triphyllum |
Jack-in-the-pulpit - UM - N Flower is 3 to 4 inches tall and about 2 inches across, made up of a 2 to 3 inch long club sitting in a tubular base with a hood . spadix is light green to reddish green. spathe is light green to purplish green and often dotted with white or purplish stripes. Plants are male or female and flowering structure looks essentially the same from the outside. The vein pattern is distinct with a continuous vein around the edge of the leaf, creating a border effect. The leaf edges are a bit wavy but otherwise smooth. Stems are smooth and green to purple, or mottled green and purple. |
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Asclepias incarnana |
Swamp Milkweed - S/ES - N 2 to 3-inch convex flower clusters at the top of the plant. Flowers are ¼-inch across with a 5-parted crown with a curved horn sticking out of each of the 5 cylindrical hoods in the crown, arching over the short column in the center. 5 downward-curved petals flare out beneath. Flower color ranges from pink to magenta to red, the central column of the star-shaped crown is usually cream colored. Leaves are up to 6 inches long and 1½ inches wide, hairless and toothless, tapering to a point at the tip on a short stalk; oppositely attached at the stem. Stems are mostly hairless but may have lines of fine hairs in the upper plant. |
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Asclepias purpurascens |
Purple Milkweed - FACU - N Flowers are about 1/3 inch across and about ½ inch long, with 5 petals angled down and out with tips pointing up, deep purple throughout though can exhibit lighter shades to pink. The 5 hoods are light pink to rose to purple, more than twice as tall as the flower center column. Horns also pink to rose, short, flat and curved in over flower center. Up to 6 round flower clusters 2½ to 3 inches wide are at the top of the plant and terminal leaf axils. Leaves are opposite with fine hairs on lower surfaces, edges are toothless but may be wavy - up and down - and will curl upwards from the mid-vein. Leaves are elongated but broad, rounded at base and narrowed to a pointed tip, up to 3 inches wide and 8 inches long, with short leaf stems. The main stem is erect, unbranched, smooth or with very fine short hairs. |
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Asclepias sullivantii |
Praire milkweed - moist praires - N |
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Asclepias syriaca |
Common Milkweed - FACU - N |
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Asclepias tuberosa |
Butterfly milkweed - dry fields, praires - N |
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Asclepias verticillata |
whorled milkweed - FACU - N |
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Astragalus canadensis |
Canadian Milk Vetch - FAC -N |
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Aureolaria flava |
Smooth false foxglove - upland moist/upland dry - N |
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Baptisia australis |
Blue Wild Indigo - FACU - N |
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Baptisia bracteata |
Cream Wild Indigo - Upland dry/Upland Moist - N |
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Baptisia lactea |
White Whild Indigo - Upland dry/Upland moist |
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Baptisia tinctoria |
Yellow wild indigo - Upland dry - N |
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Bidens cernua |
Nodding Bur Marigold - OBL - N |
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Bidens coronata |
Tall Swamp Marigold - OBL - N |
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Bidens frondosa |
Common Beggers-Tick - FACW - N |
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Boehmeria cylindrica |
False Nettle - OBL - N |
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Boltonia asteroides |
False aster - Saturated - N |
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Bouteloua curtpendula |
Side-oats grama - Upland dry - N |
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Bromus ciliatus |
Fringed Brome - Saturated - N |
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Bromus pubescens |
Woodland Brome - Upland moist - N |
