Lab 5 - Wet Meadow Flashcards
1
Q
Cicuta sp.
A
Water Hemlock
2
Q
Bidens
A
Begger’s Tick
3
Q
Eupatorium maculatum
A
Joe-pye weed
4
Q
Eupatorium perfoliatum
A
Boneset
5
Q
Lythrum salicaria
A
Purple Loosestrife
6
Q
Smartweed
A
Polygonum sp.
7
Q
Dock
- “Spaceship” seeds; having 3 edges
- Basal leaves
A
Rumex sp.
8
Q
Nightshade
A
Solanum dulcamara
9
Q
Grape
A
Vitus sp.
10
Q
Arrowhead
-3 main veins
A
Sagittaria sp.
11
Q
Arrow Arum
-leaf veins fused around the leaf margin
A
Peltandra sp.
12
Q
Pickerelweed
-Parallel leaf veins
A
Pontedaria cordata
13
Q
Wool Grass
A
Scirpus cyperinus
14
Q
Swamp Rose
- deciduous thorns
- oddly pinnate leaves
- rose hips
A
Rosa palustris
15
Q
Bluejoint
-very similar to Phalaris, but smaller and lacks reddish rhyzomes near surface.
A
Calmagrostis canadensis
16
Q
Cut grass
- velvety at the at the nodes (joints)
- leaves have a rough upper surface and teeth on the leaf margins
A
Leersia sp.
17
Q
Michigan holly
- double toothed leaf margin
- ovate leaves
- red, showey berries
A
Ilex verticillata
18
Q
Speckled Alder
- leaves are ovate, double-serrated, and pointed at the tip
- possesses catkins and cones
A
Alnus incana
19
Q
Common Elderberry
- compound leaves with leaflets in opposite pairs
- finely serrated leaf margins
A
Sambucus canadensis
20
Q
- fruits uniquely split along the top to expell seeds; arranged in a group of 5 that looks like a star
- common ornamental shrub
- erect, unbranched stems
- narrow, oblong, or lance-shaped leaves
- toothed leaf margin
A
Spirea alba
21
Q
Button bush
- spikey fruits
- emergent shrub
A
Cephalanthus occidentalis
22
Q
Red Maple
- sometimes red petiole
- shallow sinuses
A
Acer rubrum
