Plants Flashcards
Swamp Milkweed
Asclepias: OBL, bright flowers, opposite leaves, flowers grow in bunches, milky sap and fruits sort of almond shaped
Crooked-stem Aster
Aster (Symphyotrichum): bluish white flowers with stems somewhat at an angle
New England Aster
Aster (Symphyotrichum): bluish purple flowers with small thin leaves
Boneset
Eupatorium: FACW, white flowers in large heads sort of like hydrangeas, similar to queen anns lace or baby breath, opp leaves slightly toothedwith blunt point, ‘pierced’ leaves at base
Spotted Touch-Me-Not
Impatiens: FACW, very recognizable orange spotted flowers with pea-like shape
Moneywort
Lysimachia: FACW, low groundcovering plant with roundish leaves, flowers grow in the axils, in the primrose family.
Purple Loosestrife
Lythrum: opposite leaves, very recognizable purple racemes
Common Reed
Phragmites:
Lance-leaved Goldenrod
Solidago: long pointy leaves
Slender-leaved Goldenrod
Solidago: somewhat thin, flat leaves
Rough-stemmed Goldenrod
Solidago: much wider, shorter leaves
Meadowsweet
Spirea: big white racemes, few ash-like leaves
Poison ivy
Toxicodendron
Blue Vervain
Verbena: kind of like lavender and loosestrife combined
Nodding Bur Marigold
Bidens: kind of sunflower-like, opp leaves, leaves do NOT have stalks, head bows when fruiting
Swamp Beggar Ticks
Bidens: smaller flowers than Nodding Bur Marigold, leaves coarsely toothed, but smaller and wider, Leaves Stalked, heads erect when fruiting
Beggar Ticks
Bidens: leaves more arrow shaped, flowers have 5-9 leaflike bracts
Bladder Sedge
Carex: has triangular stems in clumps, 1 stalked male spike and 1-3 females (smaller spikes) with 5-15 bottle-shaped sacs (spiky looking)
Fringed Sedge
Carex: grasslike, has dense clumps of triangular stems, leaves have smooth leaf sheaths, female spikes droop (fluffy hairy looking like ‘fringe’) while males stay erect (superior)
Lurid Sedge
Carex: (poofy female spikes) “with beaked egg-shaped sacs”, and one very thin and long male at terminal
Bristlebract Sedge
Carex: has all spikes up by terminal-very small, long thin linear leaf expands all the way up to top of terminal, veined sheaths
Three-way Sedge
Dulichium: pointy leaves as well as palm frond like spikes-males and females look the same, fruit nutlets flattened
Broom Sedge
Carex: flowers shaped kind of like broom heads, flowers all grow near terminal
Soft Rush
Juncus: has dense clusters of tussocks (weedy seedy thing growing every way), no apparent leaves at all
Spike Rush
Eleocharis: very spiky grass-like with flowers only at terminal, grows in like big clumps of grass
Rice Cutgrass
Leersia: (squiggly stem) with multiple tapering leaves branching off (at tips of branches), long thin linear leaf with margin going down middle that tends to bend near top
Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris: one long (wheat-like) flower at terminal- flower is compressed early on but opens (into wheat-like look) after fertilization
Wool Grass
Scirpus: actually a sedge-has spikes with multiple budlike flowers on each branching off terminal, linear leaves droop at top, dense cluster of basal leaves present
Arrowhead
(cards-tarot cards-astrology-Sagittarius)
= Sagittaria
Maidenhair Fern
“maiden Diane” = Adiantum
