rosidae spot id Flashcards
rosaceae characteristics
perfect, parts in 5, hypanthium, stipules
urtica dioica
urticaceae, stinging nettle
- hairs on stems/leaves/petiole
- serrated leaves with deep veins
- fuzzy-looking drooping panicle
Geocaulon lividum
Santalaceae, false toadflax
- red or orange small drupe
- yellow-green leaves with short petioles
- apetalous flowers that look starry
Amelanchier alnifolia
Rosaceae, Saskatoon berry
- long-petaled white flowers with many stamen
- buzz-cut leaf tip
- blue-purple berries
Fragaria virginiana
Rosaceae, wild strawberry
- solitary white flowers
- 3-foliate leaves
- long stolons
- red accessory fruit with achenes
potentilla fruticosa
Rosaceae, shrubby cinquefoil
- small shrub with fuzzy pinnately compound leaves
- yellow 5-petalled flower
Prunus pensylvanica
Rosaceae, pin cherry
- tree/shrub-like
- umbel inflorescence (pinwheel)
- long acuminate leaf apex
- small round buds (pinhead)
Prunus virginiana
Rosaceae, chokecherry
- tree/shrub
- raceme inflorescence
- sharp pointed buds
- short acuminate leaf apex
Rosa acicularis
Rosaceae, prickly rose
- pinnately compound serrate leaves
- shrub
- straight prickles on stem
- rosehips!!
Rubus idaeus
Rosaceae, wild red raspberry
- prickles
- red aggregate fruit
- 3 (5) foliate leaves with a stalked terminal leaflet
Rubus pubescens
Rosaceae, dewberry
- trailing stems with no prickles
- terminal leaflet unstalked
- aggregate fruit with less sections
Sobus scopulina
Rosaceae, western mountain ash
- red-orance berry in crowded cluster
- corymb inflorescence
- smooth, sticky buds
Lathyrus ochroleucus
Fabaceae, cream-colored vetchling
- large stipules
- 3-4 pairs of leaflets
tendrils
- yellow-white irregular flowers in a raceme
melilotus sp.
Fabaceae, sweet clover
- 3-foliate leaves
- no tendrils
- ovoid/globose/round legume
- long, skinny raceme
vicia americana
Fabaceae, american vetch
- tiny stipules
- 5-8 leaflet pairs with tendrils
- flowers in a loose raceme
