Lab 2 (Fruits and Flowers)

Question 1

Woolly Croton

Answer 1

• Flowers (July – October)

* Seeds (July – November; Now until fall)

Question 2

Tall Ironweed

Answer 2

Purple flower late in summer

Question 3

Late Boneset

Answer 3

• Flowers (August – October)

* Seeds/Nutlet (December – February)

Question 4

Spanish Needles

Answer 4

• Flowers (July – October)

* Seeds/Nutlet (August – February)

Question 5

Pokeweed

Answer 5

• Flowers (May – November)

* Fruits (August – December); black, reddish fruit from summer to early fall and winter

Question 6

Narrowleaf Sunflower

Answer 6

• Flower (July – November)

* Fruits (September – March)

Question 7

St. John’s Wort

Answer 7

Flowers (summer)

Question 8

Camphorweed

Answer 8

Pinkish flower

Question 9

Purple Passionflower

Answer 9

• Flowers (summer)

* Fruits (appear mid-summer; edible in fall)

Question 10

Blackgym

Answer 10

• Flowers (spring/summer)

* Fruits ripen September – October

Question 11

Beauty Berry

Answer 11

• Whitish flowers (June – July)
• Fruit cluster along the stems and purple when ripe
• Wildlife dispersed through ingestion

Question 12

Winged Sumac

Answer 12

• Fruits (fall into the winter)

Question 13

Trumpet Creeper

Answer 13

• Flower (June – October)