Lab 3 - Pink Mint Borage Families Flashcards
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identifying characteristics of mature chickweed
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-opposite, broadly oval and pointed leaves with entire margin
- few fine hairs on petiole
- small white flowers with deeply cleft petals
2
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identifying characteristics of mature corn spurry
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- whorled leaf arrangement with needle-like leaves with rounded tips
- bright green stems that are glabrous to pubescent
- small white flowers
3
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identifying characteristics of mature cow cockle
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- opposite leaves that are glabrous and have bluish waxy bloom
- swollen nodes on stem
- double cyme, bright pink flowers
4
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identifying characteristics of mature night flowering catchfly
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- opposite, ovate leaves with sticky hairs
- lower leaves petiolate, upper leaves sessile
- flowers with 5 white, deeply cleft petals
5
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identifying characteristics of mature white cockle
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- opposite, ovate-lanceolate leaves covered in short hairs
- diecious plant
6
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identifying characteristics of mature baby’s breath
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- linear opposite leaves that are fuzzy or waxy and have 1 vein
- looks like large white powder puff
- small white flowers
7
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identifying characteristics of mature american dragonhead
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- opposite leaves that are coarsely toothed with rounded tips (looks like hemp nettle but rounded)
- dense terminal spike inflorescence
8
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identifying characteristics of mature hemp nettle
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- opposite leaves with fine serrations and pointed tip
- square stem
- axillary cluster of pink/purple flowers
9
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identifying characteristics of mature ground ivy
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- opposite, simple palmate leaves with scalloped margin
- tubular, purple-blue flowers in leaf axil
10
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identifying characteristics of mature bluebur
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- linear oblong leaves that have bluish color
- velcro/sandpaper texture
- pale blue flowers marked with white
11
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identifying characteristics of mature cleavers
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- square stem
- whorled leaves covered in downward pointing prickles that feel sticky
- small creamy white flowers
