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Medicine Cat Herbs 1 - Distinctive Features Flashcards

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What color is alder bark and what is it often covered in?

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Alder bark is dark and often covered in moss.

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What distinctive colors are present on the leaves of an adder’s tongue plant?

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Purple blotches.

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What texture is a beech tree? A beech tree’s leaves resemble the same nut as a chickweed’s, what is it?

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Smooth. Almonds.

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What is bindweed similar to? Bindweed has small white, pink, and/or blue flowers that resemble what brass instrument?

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Ivy. A trumpet.

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What is blackberry (aka bramble) characteristically like?

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Very prickly.

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What is bloodroot’s name indicative of?

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Its orange-red, bitter-smelling roots.

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What colors and shape are borage flowers?

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Blue or purple, and star-shaped.

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What color and shape are broom flowers?

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Yellow and cone-shaped.

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What are stout burdock’s purple flowers enclosed in?

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In a burr.

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Clusters of what grow on the tops of burnet in leaf-fall and late green-leaf?

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Small red flower buds.

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Fill in the blanks: Catchweed is a very _____ weed with fuzzy green ____ that grow tiny _____ flowers on long stems.

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Small. Orbs. White.

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Why is catmint (aka catnip) attractive to cats?

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It smells very delicious.

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How many yellow petals does celandine tend to have? What shape are celandine’s leaves, compared to tormentil?

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Four. A celandine’s leaves look more “fluffy” and bumpy-edged.

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How is chamomile characteristically different from a daisy?

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Chamomile has a large and bulbous yellow center.

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Sweet-smelling chervil has leaves that resemble what?

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Ferns.

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Chickweed is tall, sprawling, and has leaves that are shaped like what kind of nut?

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Almonds.

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What are cobnuts also known as?

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Cobnuts are also known as hazel nuts.

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Where do cobwebs come from?

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Abandoned spider webs.

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What do coltsfoot leaves resemble? Their flowers look similar to what yellow flowers?

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Hooves. Dandelions.

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Comfrey’s very tiny flowers are what color and what shape?

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Purple and bell-shaped.

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Coneflower resembles chamomile except for what?

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Its purple petals and bulbous, blackish red center.

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A daisy is a small plant with many petals that are what color? And what color is its center?

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White. Yellow.

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A dandelion’s yellow flower turns into what every half moon?

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A circular seed head.

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What color and size are deadly nightshade berries? When do these berries appear? Are the leaves of the plant of equal size?

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Shining black, about the size of a small cherry. In leaf-fall. No.

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What color is a deathberries (aka yew) plant’s trunk? What do the leaves resemble? What color are its berries?

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Red. The leaves resemble a pine’s. Red.

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What size are the leaves of a dock plant?

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Large.

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Elder leaves resemble what?
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Feathers.

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On fennel, what grows on thin stalks? What shape are fennel leaves?

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Very tiny yellow flower clumps. Very thin and spiky.

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Feverfew’s many small flowers resemble what?

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Daisies.

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What shape and color is the foxglove flower?

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Bell-shaped and pink.

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What does goldenrod’s name refer to?

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Its clumps of bright, tiny yellow flowers.

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What is heather known for?

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Its purple/grayish-purple, tiny clumps of sweet flowers.

33
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What shape are holly leaves?

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Spiky-edged.

34
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Where does honey come from?

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Bees.

35
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Horsetail resembles what two lush, spiny plants?

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Ferns and pines.

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What shape are ivy leaves?

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Half-star shaped.

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What shape are juniper berry bush leaves? What color are juniper berries?

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Very spiky. Purple or blue.

38
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What shape are knotgrass leaves?

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Narrow and oval.

39
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The upperside of a labrador tea leaf is what texture? The underside?

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Smooth. Woolly.

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Where does lamb’s ear get its name from?

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Its fuzzy, whitish-green leaves.

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What size and color are lavender flowers?

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Small and purple.

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What color and shape are mallow petals?

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Pink or purple, heart-shaped.

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Marigold’s very large flowers are what shape and color?

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Buttercup, usually red or yellow.

44
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Mint can be green, purple, or yellow, but keep what on their serrated leaves?

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White fuzz.

45
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Where does mouse bile come from?

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From the stomach of a dead mouse.

46
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What symmetric shape is found on many oak leaf types?

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Protrusions that can look like fingers, thumbs, or spikes.

47
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Oleander is a tall, poisonous plant that has blossoms that come in what colors, similar to a rose?

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White, red, or pink.

48
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What shape and texture are parsley leaves? The edges?

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Broad and crinkly. Ragged.

49
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Into what number are poison ivy leaves parted? Which leaflet of that number is the largest?

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Three. The central leaflet.

50
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What color is the poppy flower?

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A rich scarlet.

51
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Ragwort is a tall shrub with flowers that somewhat resembles chamomile, except for what difference in petal color?

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The petals are yellow instead of white.

52
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Ragweed is a ragged-leaved plant that looks similar to what lush plant?

A

A fern.

53
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A raspberry bush looks very similar to a blackberry bush, except for what?

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Leaves that are soft to the touch, and red berries instead of black berries.

54
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Rosemary is a tall, needled bush with what size and color flowers?

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Small, light-purple flowers.

55
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Fill in the blanks and answer the question: Rush is a long, very very ____-leaved plant with dark reddish-purple _____ on its stalks.

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Thin. Heads.

56
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Snakeroot is a short-growing plant with numerous, very tiny flowers of what color in what formation? What shape are the leaves?

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White, and in clusters. Broad and serrated (not to be confused with late thoroughwort).

57
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What shape and color are saffron flowers? How close to the ground do they grow?

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Lily-shaped and pink. Low.

58
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What shape and texture are sage leaves? In what formation do the purplish, lipped flowers grow?

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Oblong and velvety. In whorls.

59
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What shape are sorrel leaves? What size, shape, and color are the flowers?

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Arrow-shaped. Tiny, round, and red.

60
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Where are sticks found?

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On the ground.

61
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Stickleworts are woody plants with small yellow flowers in what vertical formation?

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Cone-shaped.

62
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Stinging nettles are green, toothed-leaf plants, possessing strange strings of very tiny what?

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Bulbs.

63
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Sweet sedges are thick, reed-like plants with long buds at the top that resemble what kerneled vegetable?

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Corn.

64
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A tansy’s yellow, round and flat flowers resemble what?

A

Buttons.

65
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Tormentils look like buttercups except for what detail of their petals? What shape are tormentil’s leaves, compared to celandine?

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Having four petals instead of five. Tormentil leaves are more spiky.

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Fill in the blanks: Thyme has very _____, narrow, elliptical leaves. Small, ____ stemmed buds grow out of the topmost leaves.

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Small. Pink.

67
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Valerians have stems that are very thin or very wide? What colors are their tiny, fluffy flowers?

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Very thin. Pink, white, or purple.

68
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Water hemlocks are similarly shaped to valerians, except for what small variation in shape, and what two common colors?

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More umbrella-shaped. Green and white.

69
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Watermint’s small purple flowers grow in what shape?

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A sphere.

70
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What color blossoms do wild cherry trees produce? The cherries are about the size as what small round vegetable?

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White, pink, and (very rarely) red. A pea.

71
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Wild garlic resembles what extremely common low-lying plant, except thinner?

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Grass.

72
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Willow branches resemble what?

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Curtains.

73
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Wintergreen looks very similar to what poisonous tree, except for what leaf shape difference?

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Holly. Rounded, oval leaves.

74
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Witch hazel looks similar to what iconic fruit-bearing tree, except for what size difference?

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Apple tree. Witch hazel is smaller.

75
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Yarrow looks very similar to water hemlock, except for what difference in leaf shape and stem thickness?

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Yarrow has leaves shaped more like ferns, and has a slightly thicker stem.

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