Lab 1 Flashcards

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Cercis occidentalis

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Family: Fabaceae

Common name: Western Redbud

Characteristics:

  • Multiple bare, smooth trunks,
  • Rounded, cordate leaves with a smooth margin
  • Flattened legumes (green from the current year, brown from previous years)
  • A profusion of pink and purple papilionaceous flowers (in the springtime)
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Genista x spachiana

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Family: Fabaceae

Common name: Florist Genista

Characteristics:

  • Small leaves that fall off in the summertime
  • Tough, green stems that allow the plant to photosynthesize year-round
  • Long, loose spikes of fragrant flowers in late spring
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Lupinus spp.

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Family: Fabaceae

Common name: Lupine

Characteristics:

-Brightly-colored, papillionaceous flowers (with banners, wings, and keels)
-Upright conical or cylindrical racemes, often with the flowers in regular whorls
and (most distinctively)
-Alternate, palmately compound leaves with 9-15 lanceolate leaflets

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Mimosa spp.

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Family: Fabaceae

Common name: Sensitive Plant

Characteristics:

-A low-growing plant or small shrub
-Hairs and thorns along the stem
-Pink or white “puffball” flowers (when in bloom)
and
-Delicate, bipinnately-compound leaves that respond to touch by folding up

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Wisteria sinensis

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Family: Fabaceae

Common name: Chinese Wisteria

Characteristics:

  • Leaves that are odd-pinnate with 9-13 lanceolate leaflets
  • Numerous flowers in drooping racemes, 6-12 inches long
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Ajuga reptans

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Family: Lamiaceae

Common name: Carpet Bugle

Characteristics:

  • A mat of waxy, dark green foliage spreading by stolons
  • Opposite, elliptic leaves with entire margins
  • Vertical stalks of blue or purple flowers sticking up 6-8 inches
  • Clumps of small flowers on opposite sides of the stalk, subtended by an oval, leaf-like bract
  • Tubular corollas with broad lower lips that are lobed into the shape of a gingerbread man
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Rosmarinus officinalis

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Family: Lamiaceae

Common name: Rosemary

Characteristics:

  • Narrow leaves that are green on top and silvery-pale below
  • Pale blue flowers with arching stamens that deposit pollen on the backs of visiting insects
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Magnolia liliiflora

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Family: Magnoliaceae

Common name: Lily Flowered Magnolia

Characteristics:

  • Bright purple flower buds standing upright on bare branches in the spring
  • Flowers that are white inside, purplish outside
  • Leaves are 4-6 inches long
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Magnolia stellata

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Family: Magnoliaceae

Common name: Star Magnolia

Characteristics:

  • Elliptic leaves
  • Flowers made of many thin, white petals
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Magnolia x soulangiana

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Family: Magnoliaceae

Common name: Saucer Magnolia

Characteristics:

  • Fragrant, late-winter blooms that are white to pink or puplish red
  • Branch tips that fork around the flowers to form distinctive “Y-shaped” tips
  • Large, obovate leaves that widen in a long “V”
  • Abruptly acuminate leaf tips
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Chionanthus retusus

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Family: Oleaceae

Common name: Chinese Fringe Tree

Characteristics:

  • Opposite leaves that are glossy green above, pale and downy on the underside
  • White flowers with 4 petals, borne in upright panicles at the ends of young shoots
  • Gray bark that sometimes forms a diamond pattern
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Forsythia x intermedia

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Family: Oleaceae

Common name: Forsythia

Characteristics:

  • Bright yellow flowers on long, bare, unbranching stems
  • A corolla of four long petals fused at the base to form a shallow cup
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Jasminum mesnyi

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Family: Oleaceae

Common name: Primrose Jasmine

Characteristics:

  • Long, arching stems
  • Bright lemon-yellow flowers
  • Dark green foliage
  • Opposite, compound leaves composed of three elliptic leaflets
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Syringa spp.

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Family: Oleaceae

Common name: Lilac

Characteristics:

-A large shrub or small tree with smooth, gray bark
-Simple, opposite leaves with entire margins
-Big, conical clusters of aromatic flowers at branch tips
-Individual flowers that are tubular, flaring into four lobes
(The flowers are usually light purple, but pink and white cultivars do exist.)

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15
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Ceanothus griseus horizontalis

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Family: Rhamnaceae

Common name: Carmel Creeper

Characteristics:

  • A widely spreading low shrub
  • Glossy, bright green foliage
  • Egg-shaped leaves with three main leaf veins
  • Light blue flowers in one-inch clusters
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Ceanothus ‘Joyce Coulter’

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Family: Rhamnaceae

Common name: Joyce Coulter Ceanothus

Characteristics:

  • Linear to oblong leaves, about 1 inch long
  • Large, spike-like clusters of medium blue flowers
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Ceanothus maritimus

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Family: Rhamnaceae

Common name: Maritime Ceanothus

Leaf characteristics:

  • Small (half-inch)
  • Opposite
  • Green above and gray or white beneath
  • Truncate or even obcordate at the tip
18
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Narcissus CVs

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Family: Amaryllidaceae

Common name: Narcissus

Characteristics:

  • A cluster of long, narrow, basal leaves with parallel veins,
  • One or more showy flowers per stem,
  • A corona of fused petals in the middle of each flower (typically)
  • A withered spathe where the flower pedicel meets the stalk (family characteristic)
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Hyacinthoides hispanica

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Family: Liliaceae

Common Name: Spanish Bluebell

Characteristics:

  • A basal rosette of narrow leaves with parallel veins
  • Flower stalks rising above the leaves in the springtime
  • Loose clusters of hanging, bell-shaped, blue flowers
  • A perianth of six separate tepals on each flower
  • Six epipetalous stamens
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Hyacinthus orientalis

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Family: Liliaceae

Common name: Common Hyacinth

Characteristics:

  • A basal rosette of green leaves with parallel veins
  • A compact head of waxy, fragrant flowers atop a short stalk
  • The lobes of three sepals and three petals that merge midway on individual flowers to form a single tube
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Tulipa hybrida

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Family: Liliaceae

Common name: Tulip

Characteristics:

  • Broad, basal leaves with parallel veins
  • Upright, showy flowers of six petals forming a cup like a wine glass