Lab 5 - Wet Meadow Flashcards
Cicuta sp.
Water Hemlock
Bidens
Begger’s Tick
Eupatorium maculatum
Joe-pye weed
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Boneset
Lythrum salicaria
Purple Loosestrife
Smartweed
Polygonum sp.
Dock
- “Spaceship” seeds; having 3 edges
- Basal leaves
Rumex sp.
Nightshade
Solanum dulcamara
Grape
Vitus sp.
Arrowhead
-3 main veins
Sagittaria sp.
Arrow Arum
-leaf veins fused around the leaf margin
Peltandra sp.
Pickerelweed
-Parallel leaf veins
Pontedaria cordata
Wool Grass
Scirpus cyperinus
Swamp Rose
- deciduous thorns
- oddly pinnate leaves
- rose hips
Rosa palustris
Bluejoint
-very similar to Phalaris, but smaller and lacks reddish rhyzomes near surface.
Calmagrostis canadensis
Cut grass
- velvety at the at the nodes (joints)
- leaves have a rough upper surface and teeth on the leaf margins
Leersia sp.
Michigan holly
- double toothed leaf margin
- ovate leaves
- red, showey berries
Ilex verticillata
Speckled Alder
- leaves are ovate, double-serrated, and pointed at the tip
- possesses catkins and cones
Alnus incana
Common Elderberry
- compound leaves with leaflets in opposite pairs
- finely serrated leaf margins
Sambucus canadensis
- 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
Spirea alba
Button bush
- spikey fruits
- emergent shrub
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Red Maple
- sometimes red petiole
- shallow sinuses
Acer rubrum
Coontail
*Ceratophyllum sp. *
Waterweed
-leaves whorled in 3s
Elodea sp.
Curly Pondweed
Potamogedon crispus
