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lycopodiaceae |
club mosses
small, 5-20 cm tall apparent strobili, more upright |
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selaginellaceae
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spike mosses
smaller strobili smaller creeping herbaceous plants under 2 cm Selling themselves short |
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equisitaceae |
horsetails erect, hollow, grooved round stems leaves whorled at nodes STROBILI AT TIPS OF STEMS ONLY |
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psilotaceae |
whisk ferns Ball like sporangia on branches leaves usually scale like, simple veins vascular, lack leaves, instead have small outgrowths have balls to use psilos |
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ophioglossaceae |
small ferns with fronds divided into photosynthetic blades and spore producing portions no sori OVO 2 faced |
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leptosporangiate ferns
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like ones in forest park large fronds catapult sporangia sori on ordinary leaves, unlike ophioglossaceae |
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cycadales
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palmlike plants with long fernlike and leathery leaves attached to a squat woody stem leaves: 1 midvein no lateral veins |
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gynkgoaceae gringos have ---- |
one extant species
fan shaped leaves |
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Pinaceae |
Pines pine needles, like oregon |
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Taxaceae (1-2-3) taxes took it down |
pine needle like, but flatter and less needley looks like a cross between pinaceae and cycadales |
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cupressaceae (1-2-3) take the cup |
cypress family seeds often embedded in a small berry like cone telling feature, rounder, tubular leaves |
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nymphaeaceae |
heart shaped lily pads flower solitary, large, on elongated pedicel water lillies |
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magnoliaceae i am receptive to this part of the song |
trees and shrubs leaves alternate stamens numerous, filaments poorly differentiated receptacle elongated into a large cone |
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annonaceae Anon |
leaves often have a drip tip but not always leaves alternate, 2 ranked fruit an aggregate of berries! |
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lauraceae |
alternate leaves, no stipules 4 whorles with 3 stamens in each 6 sepals no petals fruit a drupe (or berry) little rock like determinant inflourescence mostly woody trees |
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piperaceae |
very reduced inflourescence, looks almost like strobili, very small flowers
swollen joints at nodes |
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aristolochiaceae aristotal had heart, not beauty |
Leaves heart shaped with palmate venation alternate leaves jugular flowers, but very few of them |
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ceratophyllaceae Not on "top" |
submerged, aquatic, rootless
hairy dichotomus leaves (like many V's connected), opposite |
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Saxifragaceae q2 |
Flowers are long determinant inflourscence towering over leaves; often small and white-yellow; two pistils leaves are shrub like and much lower than flower |
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grossulariaceae q2 |
flowers usually distinctly prolonged and saucer-tube-bell shaped. 2 carpals stems usually spiny leaves very serrated even berry could be hairy and sharp stamans alternating with 5 staminoids |
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crassulaceae q2 |
obvious whorling of leaves VERY succulent 4-5 free carpals grouped like a fleshy star sometimes vivipary |
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hamamelidaceae q2 |
flowers sometimes have long straplike petals stipules present stellete hairs on leaves |
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altingiaceae q2 |
real fur cones like the ones at home, not fake ass ones on platanaceae palmate star leaves |
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haloragaceae q2 |
some aquatic with whispey leaves not showy flowers, wind pollinated fruit is one seeded nutlets MORE NEEDED MAYBE |
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vitaceae q2 |
GRAPE FAMILY 4-5 parted flowers LEAVES with cordate base tendrils normal looking leaves fruit a berry or grape |
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Oxalidaceae q3 |
clover like trifoliate 10 stamans in outer two whorls, outer whorl is shorter 5 carpals - 5 styles, starfruit |
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Celastrales q3 |
4-5 merous flowers,3-5 stamans, syncarpus gynoecium superior ovary nectar disc seeds with BRIGHT red to orange aril, fruit is whole capsule |
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Euphorbiaceae q3 |
cactus like!!! spines are modified stipules flowers are unisexual alternate leaves |
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Hypericaceae q3 |
leaves usually whorled or opposite, thinner and ovular leaves. fruit a capsule, sometimes like a berry, 3 separate styles, very telling, lots of stamens |
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rhizophoraceae q3 |
trees and shrubs with prop roots and pneumatophores leaves opposite, interpetiolar stipules fruit an elongated capsule or berry, germinating and viviparous |
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violaceae q3 |
violet family kind of like saxifrageaceae basal rosette of chordate leaves distinct anterior petal (larger and often spurred) bilateral flowers |
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Passifloraceae q3 |
passion flower family tendrils leaves lobed with unique shapes unique corona , stamens usually on stalk wth gynoecium fruit a berry or capsule |
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Salicaceae q3 |
smaller, thinner leaves flowers are like "cottony fluff", that are attached to a tube like support lots of prominent leaf scars throughout the stem separate male and female plants |
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Begoniaceae Male says be gone |
Jointed stems! fleshy herbs stipules present, has flowers with 4 tepals carpals connate with three prominant wings, seperate male and female with female imitating male |
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cucurbitaceae |
cucumbers and pumkins, pepo with flattened seeds showy often yellow flowers unlike viracene tendrils |
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fabaceae nails are fabulous |
most species have long odd compound leaves that are sensitive to touch 1 elongated carpal, fruit a legume |
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rosaceae hyper beautiful |
leaves ALWAYS alternate, often compound (trifoliate), some degree of teeth. showy 5 part flowers lots of stamens often paired stipules loads of yellow stamans, often reduced carpals hypanthium |
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ulmaceae ulmar reduces assymetrically |
2 RANKED LEAVES (only coming out of one plane) with serrate margins and ASYMETRICAL bases wind pollinated/ reduced flowers |
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cannabaceae |
look for hops or classic cannabis leaves carpals 2, connate fruit a drupe or achene with Persistant Calyx |
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moraceae need more out of these flowers, and fruits, but not figs |
**tiny greenish flowers densely arranged in a raceme or head. except in figs ** uniovulate carpals, fruit often a multiple Shoots may be jointed, bulb like fruits |
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urticaceae they 'Urt |
usually herbs, often with stinging hairs very small greenish flowers with 4 tepals flowers and fruits often tightly clustured on extended axillary shoots! |
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Fagaceae (4) |
Catkins single serrated leaves scaly capsule- acorns! fruit a nut with spiny to scaly capule |
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Butalaceae (4) |
elongated Catkins doubley serrated leaves!!! fruit a samara or nut, enveloped by wing like bracts pinecone-like or juglandaceae like fruit lenticles sometimes hoppy involucre, or pineconey |
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Myricaceae myriad of balls (4) |
alternate gland dotted thinner ovular leathery leaves small hard berry, or juglandaceae like leathery catkin, or spikelike catkin more like myriad of balls than catkin |
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Juglandaceae (4) |
Catkins Alternate odd pinnately compound leaves with serrated margins drupe like nut with leathery husk NUTS |
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Ranunculaceae |
(Buttercup family) leaves with scalloped edges nectar spur on some but not all, very telling androecium of many stamans |
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berberidaceae |
barberry family spined leaves mostly1 carpel many stamen sovary large with thick style and prominent stigmafruit a berry with old stigma intact |
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pavareraceae |
poppy family leaves with VERY deep lobes single balled fruit on a long steme longated capsule with style and stigma attached, petals fell off 2 sepals quickly deciduous, 4 wrinkly petals |
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platanaceae |
sickamore treevery monoecy, branches w either all male or all female flowersfur cone balls like home!each little spur on its own flower |
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Proteaceae |
evergreen trees and shrubs leaves simple, often w sharp edges inflorescence a showy head, or raceme, or spikemany many long stamans OR odd flower cup thing |
