BLUE Group Quiz 1 Flashcards
White Oak
Leaves with rounded lobes and deep sinuses, alternating on branch.
Fruits are acorns with relatively long nuts and bumpy caps.
Bark is light ashy gray with longitudinal fissures or flakes
Shagbark Hickory
Compound leaves, typically with 5 leaflets with saw-like teeth; leaves alternating on branch.
Fruit is a large nut covered by thick greenish-yellow husk that turns brown and splits into 4 sections.
Bark is shaggy with thin vertical strips curving away from trunk.
Sugar Maple
Leaves have 5 main lobes with several large teeth per lobe and palmate veins; oppositely arranged on branch.
Fruit is a “double samara” (winged seed)
Bark is variable but often with long, irregular, thick plates or ridges
White Ash
Leaves compound, typically with 7 (5-9) leaflets, margins without teeth or finely-toothed; oppositely arranged on branch.
Fruits are singed seeds (samaras).
Bark ashy gray with interlacing furrows and ridges; similar to tulip tree
Eastern Redbud
Leaves heart shaped with non-toothed margin.
Fruits are dry, brown “pea-pods”; flowers are bright pink and small, blooming before leaves emerge.
Bark is reddish-brown and relatively smooth.
Tulip Tree
Leaves distinctive, usually with 4 lobes and flat base.
Fruit consists of cone-like, upright clusters of papery winged seeds; large, showy flowers shaped like a tulip, yellow-green and orange.
Bark ashy gray with interlacing furrows and ridges; similar to white ash.
American Sycamore
Leaves have 3-5 shallow lobes, coarsely toothed, similar to sugar maple; alternating on branch.
Fruits are spherical clusters of hundreds of winged seeds known as achenes.
Bark: outer brown and flaky, revealing white inner bark.
Flowering Dogwood
Leaves are egg-shaped with smooth edges and veins that are parallel to leaf edge; leaves oppositely arranged on branch.
Fruit is cluster of red berries, flowers are small, green and inconspicuous, surrounded by 4 white bracts (expanded bud scales) that look petal like.
Bark is gray, broken up into small rectangular sections reminiscent of alligator skin.
Weeping Willow
Leaves thin and lance shaped with tiny teeth along margins.
Smaller branches and twigs droop.
Fruit is small capsule with tiny seeds.
Bark is gray and furrowed in larger specimens.
White Pine
Needles relatively long and flexible, blue-green, in groups of 5.
Cones 4-8’’ long with relatively thing scales producing winged seeds.
Bark is gray and furrowed.
Eastern Red Cedar
Foliage is scale-like, dark green.
Female cones blue and berry-like but actually represent fused, fleshy scales; male cones small, yellow-brown
Bark is reddish-brown and fibrous
Amur Honeysuckle
Leaves egg-shaped with extended tip, oppositely arranged on branch.
Flowers are white, pink, or cream-colored, fragrant.
Shrub in forest understory and on forest edges
Black raspberry
Pink/purple, arching canes (stems) with many small thorns.
Leaves have white undersides.
Fruit easily detaches from carpel leaving a hollow indention.
Dandelion
Leaves elongate with large variable teeth; grow from base
Yellow flowers are actually a collection of small flowers in “floret” or flower head.
Seeds produced in white spherical cluster
Chicory
Leaves variable based on position; lower leaves elongate with roughly-toothed margins; upper leaves pointed with fewer teeth.
Blue flowers actually a collection of flowers
Queen Anne’s lace
Leaves are lace-like and intricately subdivided.
Flat-topped cluster of tiny white flowers with one reddish brown flower in center of cluster
Canada Goldenrod
1-2 m tall
Small yellow flowers in pyramid-shaped clusters and rays; blooms in summer and fall
Lance-shaped leaves with 3 prominent veins; leaves alternatively arranged on stem
Common milkweed
1-1.5 m tall
Leaves are oval/lance-shaped
White to pink flower clusters in June/July
Large seed pods contain fluffy seeds
White Clover
Low-growing, 2-15 cm tall
Leaf composed of 3 leaflets with pale chevrons
Small white flowers in spring - fall
Red Clover
20-80 cm tall
Sprawling plant; leaves with 3 leaflets
Round, red/purple flower heads in spring - fall
Common Violet
Low-growing, 5-15 cm tall
Cluster of heart-shaped leaves with scalloped edges
Small purple/blue/white flowers in spring
Virginia Bluebell
20-50 cm tall
Rounded, grayish-green egg-shaped leaves with smooth margins
Clear blue, bell-shaped flowers in spring
Mayapple
Large leaves 20-30 cm, umbrella-shaped with deep lobes
Flowers underneath leaves produced in spring
Forms colonies on forest floors
Crabgrass
Low 3-10 cm, creeping plant
annual stems will root at nodes where touching soil
Long, thin, finger-like flower heads in summer
Cattail
Long 1-2 m narrow leaves
Dense, tube shaped flowers and seed heads
Big Bluestem
Leaves long 0.5-1m, thin, arching
Flowers on long spikes with 3-part ‘birds-foot’ structure in late summer/fall
