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15 Cards in this Set
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-opposite, compound leaves
-smooth green twigs -usually has multiple parts to the trunk -grow near water |
Acer Negundo
Sapindaceae Boxelder |
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-glaucous, red stalks with thorns
-shrub -flowers have long, slender sepals, more than twice length of the petals |
Rubus occidentalis
Rosaceae Black raspberry (hollow inside) |
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-wine colored stalk with lots of bristles and thorns
-not glaucous -shrub |
Rubus phoenicolasius
Rosaceae Wineberry |
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-tough, fibrous stem
-6 feet high -poisonous, but can be eaten if prepared properly |
Phytolacca americana
Phytolaccaceae Poke weed |
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-alternate leaves
-different leaf shape for climbing juvenile (palmately) vines and flowering adult (unlobed cordate) vines -umbel flowers/fruit |
Hedera helix
Araliaceae English Ivy |
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-heart shaped leaves
-two year life span, 1st close to the ground, 2nd shoots up -garlicy smell |
Alliara petiolata
Brassicaceae Garlic mustard |
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-opposite leaves, elliptical shape
-woody, nondescript vine -purple berries/Elderberry |
Lonicera Japonica
Caprifoliaceae Japanese Honeysuckle |
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-alternate leaves with 3 leaflets
-can be trailing vine, climbing vine, or shrub -has hairy roots and small white drupes |
Toxicodendron radicans
Anacardiaceae Poison ivy |
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-alternate leaves, singly toothed, with prominent vein
-smooth grey bark -buds are "pokey" with two rows of overlapping scales -Associated with old forests, needs little light |
Fagus grandifolia
Fagaceae American Beech |
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-needles are usually in two and are twisted
-trunk and branches tend to twist -member of yellow pines, with spikes on the cones |
Pinus virginiana
Pinaceae Scrub pine |
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-branches are whorled around trunk
-needles are in tufts of 5, slightly glaucous -member of white pine, so cones have no spines |
Pinus strobus
Pinaceae White pine |
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-monocot
-veins run parallel -star shaped pink or white flowers |
Allium canadense
Amaryllidaceae Onion Grass |
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-opposite leaves
-stems are usually square -flowers are bilateral symmetrical -member of the mint family |
Glechoma hederacea
Lamiaceae Ground Ivy |
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-opposite, simple leaves with veins that arch up
-branches arch up and have onion-like buds on end -bud has small flowers and 4 bracts frame them |
Cornus flordia
Cornaceae Flowering Dogwood |
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-opposite, with one leaf and one tendril
-woody vine |
Vitis spp.
Vitaceae Grape vine |
