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Arecaceae
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Palms
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Trees or shrubs with no secondary growth. Massive herb. Large apical meristem. Leaves are pinnate or palmate. Lobes are plicate shaped.
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Commelinaceae
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Spiderwort
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Succulent, mucilaginous. One of the three petals may be larger than the others. Usually flowers are purple, perfect. and bilateral or radial. Stems swollen at nodes. Leaves parallel veined, v-shaped, closed basal sheeth. Inflorescence determinate with multiple helicoids cymbs
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Zingiberales
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Banana, bird of paradise, and ginger
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Big herbs, tropical, peiolate (pinnate venation), irregular flowers.
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Bromeliaceae
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Pineapple and spanish moss
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leaves are alternate and spiral, parallel venation, form tank-like basal rosette, and water absorbing scales
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Typhaceae
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Cattail
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male parts are always above female parts
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Typha latifolia
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broadleaf cattail
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male nearly touching female
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Typha angustifolia
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narrowleaf cattail
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male part far away from female, 2-3cm
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Typha X glauca
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hybrid cattail
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male part separate from female part but not as much as the narrowleaf cattail. 1-2cm
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Sparganium
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bur-reed
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aquatic globular heads
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Juncaceae
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Juncus (rush)
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two inflorescences
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Cyperaceae
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Carex, Cyperus, Scirpus, Eleocharis, and Eriophorum
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Carex
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sedge
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a lot of species diversity, bottle-shaped
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Cyperus
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flat sedge
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spikelets flat and two ranked, an inflorescence is usually in the middle of a tuft of leaves
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Scirpus
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bull-rush
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round inflorescence with many bristles and scales
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Eleocharis
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spike-rush
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leaves are reduced or absent (basal, very small if there at all), determinate inflorescence similar to Scirpus
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Eriophorum
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cotton-grass
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Poaceae
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all the following
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Andropogon gerardii
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big bluestem
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turkey-foot inflorescence, stems are usually bluish, solid stem
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Spartina pectinata
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cord grass
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inflorescence only comes off of one side, robust plant, very flammable, leaves can cut your finger
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Panicum virgatum
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switch grass
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inflorescence is a panicle, used for biofuels
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Elymus canadensis
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Canada wild rye
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Big inflorescence (bent over from the weight), long awns (hair like projections)
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Schizachyrium scoparium
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little bluestem
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solid stem, whitish leaves, feathery inflorescence, prefers dryer soils
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Bouteloua curtipendula
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side-oats gramma
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inflorescence comes off of one side
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Sorghastrum nutans
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indian grass
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can grow up to 2m, feathery inflorescence, every seed head is pubescent, fuzzy nodes, horn at the leaf base
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Stipa spartea
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porcupine grass
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hydroscopic awns that spin as the moisture changes, good to throw at hiking buddies
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The rest are
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weedy species
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Phalaris arundinacea
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reed-canary grass
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aweful plant, invasice and aggressice, long papery ligule
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Phragmites australis
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giant reed
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very tall, robust, large inflorescence unlike any other, very feathery
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Bromus inermis
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smooth brome
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"M" or "W" crinkle, sheeths are closed
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Poa pratensis
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Kentucky bluegrass
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most people have it as their lawn, leaf tip is shaped like a keil of a boat (curled together), comes off of the base at a strange angle
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