Plants & Birds Study Guide

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Skunk Cabbage

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Symplocarpus foetidus

-Hooded flower, leaves wrapped around like a scroll Small yellow --flowers Smells like a skunk

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Autumn Olive

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-Elaeagnaceae

-Pale yellow flowers Pink to red berries

-Lower leaf surface has silvery scale.

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Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)

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-Tall flower spikes.

-Grows in outdoor open spaces.

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Jack Pine ( Pinus banksiana)

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Reddish brown bark -Rounder at the top, reddish slender

- twigs Bark get grayer as tree gets older.Bark is flat

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May Apple (Podophyllum)

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-large deeply cut leaves

-Single large white flower under the leaves

-Single yellow fruit

-first plants to come up in the spring.

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Jack in the Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)

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one or two long-stalked, 3-parted leave sat the tip of its flower stalk, which is not quite as long as the leaves, it has a peculiar flowering structure, tinted shades of green, greenish-white, and purple.

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Poison Ivy ( Toxicodendron radicans)

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3 leafletstoothed or lobed leaves but can be smoothed edges

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Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)

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3 to 6 in long.

-Deeply lobed leaves. Early spring wildflower. Conspicuous white flowers.

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Trout Lily (Erythronium americanum)

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- brown-mottled leaves.

- The solitary, yellow, nodding flower has six petals.

- only one leaf until it matures, then it has two. The leaves are stiff, waxy, upright, 7-20 cm long.

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Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata)

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-evergreen plants with needles instead of leaves.

-Yew needles are shorter than pine needles.

-e bark of the yew is reddish-brown

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Poaceae

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- Grass

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Pine Tree (Pinus)

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-cone bearing plant

- needles

-reddish-brown bark

-maintain leaves all year.

-usually 5 needles per cluster.

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White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis)

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-Common Name: white cedar.

-scale-like

- scales flattened into sprays.

-White/grey bark.

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Red Cedar

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-scale-like scales - rounded, close to twig

-browish-reddish bark

-less like a cone

-evergreen

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Honey Suckle (Lonicera japonica)

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- evergreen, woody, twining vine.

-leaves are opposite.

- younger stems are reddish in color and are fuzzy.

-older stems are hollow with brownish bark that peels in long strips

-white flowers that fade to yellow.

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Blue Spruce (Picea pungens)

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- bluish-gray in color

-needles t 1” long, stiff, and pointed at the tip.

-cones are light brown, about 3” long, and produced in the upper branches of the tree.

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Eastern White Pine(Pinus strobus)

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-blue-green needles borne in groups of five.

-gray bark

- soft and flexible.

- needle-like

-needles in clusters of 5.

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A Weeping Willow (Salix)

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-broad, flat leaves

-simple leaves

-not lobed

- all teeth same size
-shorter stem

-all side veins same length

-leaves long and narrow

-no fine silky hairpale lower surface

-greater than 4x as long as wide0.25 - 0.5 inches wide

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Red Pine(Pinus resinosa)

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-Bark light red-brown

-needles evergreen, in clusters of 2, slender

-traight, limbless trunk for almost 3/4 length and an oval crown.

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Black Pine (Pinus Nigra)

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-Is very hardy.

-Features dark green needles grown in bundles of two that sometimes curve or twist slightly.

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Defodills(Narcissus)

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-frequent colour is orange.

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Maple(Acer)

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-3-5 inches wide; 5lobed (rarely 3-lobed); bright green upper surface and a paler green lower surface.

-Smooth gray bark

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Norway Spruce(Picea abies)

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-Pyramidal with branches that hang down. Stiff when young, becoming more graceful with age.

-Often found around streams or lakes.

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Scottish Pine (Pinus sylvestris)

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- Irregular pyramidal. Scotch Pines look like other Pines when young, but as they age they can take on many different shapes.

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Dandelion(Taraxacum)

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-The dandelion is a readily identifiable, hardy, perennial weed

-Dandelions have a toothy, deeply-notched, basal leaves that are hairless

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Sweet Clover(Melilotus officinalis)

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- Leaves are fully divided into three leaflets, like alfalfa.

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Staghorn sumac(Rhus typhina)

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-Leaflets are wide at the base and pointed at the tip with serrated edges. Leaves are dark green, turning red, orange or gold in the fall. Tree bark is smooth and may be gray or brown

- Clusters are cone-shaped and form at the tips of branches.

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Burdock(Arctium)

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- Large, wavy, heart-shaped leaves that are green on the top and whitish on the bottom

-dry

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Sycamore(Platanus occidentalis)

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- broad, maplelike leaves and a trunk and limb complexion of mixed green, tan and cream.

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White Oak (Quercus alba)

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-White oaks have rounded lobes,

-multiple lobes

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Red Oak(Quercus rubra)

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-Leaves are alternate, simple, lobed. Lobes have pointed tips. Fruit is an acorn.

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Horse Chestnut(Aesculus hippocastanum)

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-With age it develops a broad, rounded, dense crown. Its drooping, cylindrical, cream-colored male flower clusters.

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Ground Juniper (Juniperus)

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-needle-shaped and borne in threes.

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Alfalfa(Medicago sativa)

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- three leaflets like those of clover.

-middle leaf has a short stalk.

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Thistle (Cirsium arvense)

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-edgy stem, about 5 different kinds.

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Yellow Birch(Betula alleghaniensis)

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-The leaves are 4 inches long, finely double-toothed, oval and short-stalked, dark greeits bark; an amber-yellow to silvery yellow-gray bark that peels off in thin curls.n on top and paler green beneath.

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Box elder(Acer negundo)

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- compound leaves have three to five notched or lobed leaflets.

- The finely ridged bark is grayish to dark brown in color sometimes with a greenish tinge.

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Violets (Viola Spp.)

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-native wildflower which tends to favour woods, thickets and stream banks.

-heart-shaped leaves and large blue-violet flowers (sometimes yellow or white)

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Watercress(Nasturtium officinale)

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Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)

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-five leaflets to each leaf

-The developing Virginia creeper berries, which will turn dark purple with red stems when ripe, look like this:

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Cleavers (Galium aparine)

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-can stick to anything.

-Likes to cling to things.

-multitude of small hooks.

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Wild Mustard (Sinapis arvensis)

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- yellow flowers on top.

-4 petals, typically arranged like either the letters "X" or "H

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Cat tail (Typha)

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- flat blade like leaves that reach heights from 3 to 10 feet.

-has a brown cigar-shaped head that stands atop a very long, stout stalk.

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Sumac (Toxicodendron vernix)

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-small branches with red stems growing along the entire height of the trunk.

- each stem has two parallel rows of leaves growing along its length.

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Goldenrod (Solidago)

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-Long wood like stems with spiky tooth like parts which are widely-spaced, yellow flowers that grow in thick clusters.

- no leaf stem and small teeth around the edges.

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Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)

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-alternate simple leaves, 2-6 inches long, uniformly wide to lance-shaped

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Wild Strawberry(Fragaria Virginiana)

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-small, white, 5-petaled flower, 3-parted leaf, and familiar fruit; flower white, radially-symmetrical, 5 petals,

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Barberry (Berberis)

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-woody deciduous shrub with arching branches.

-e leaves are small, oval, smooth and untoothed

- bark is brown with older stems deeply grooved

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Vase fern

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-vase shape, with fronds facing the center.

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Trillium

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-common white-flowering trillium.

-3 big leaves.

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Milkweed (Asclepias)

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-large, broad leaves, usually four to ten inches long. They sometimes have red veins.This plant is found in fields, gardens, and along roads.Common Milkweed flowers are pinkish-purple clusters which often droop.Fruits are green pods which turn brown before bursting open to let out fluffy seeds.

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Ash

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-Opposite Branching (with stout twigs)

-Compound leaves are leaves made up of multiple leaflets.

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Spruce

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-Short needles, unlike a pine.

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Geranium

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-multiple colors of leaves.