Taylor Bridge Flashcards
Northn Eastern BC vegetation
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Alfalfa- leaflets 3, elliptic-oblanceolate to lance-oblong
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Alfalfa- leaflets 3, elliptic-oblanceolate to lance-oblong
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Alpine meadow=foxtail
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Alpine meadow-foxtail- ligules finely erorded and irregulalary jagged.
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Alsike clover- note 3 leaflets finely toothed
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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American Vetch, note compound leaf with several leaflets with the top having a tendril that wraps around plants.
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Arkansas rose- flower 5 petals and many stamen. Leaves on alternate side of stem
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what tree is this bark similar to?
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Balsam poplar bark
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What leaf shape does this signify?
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Balsam Poplar
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Baneberry- note toothed leaves
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Bear berry- dark green leaves that are paler unerneath, grows low to ground and urn shaped flowers.
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What tree does this leaf belong to?
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Birch
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Birch leaved spirea - alternate coarse double toothed.
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Black currant- note maple leaf shaped leaf with heart base
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Black gooseberry- note prickly stem
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Black twinberry- note opposite leaves
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Blue bur- often deciduous; stem leaves linear to narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, reduced upwards to the leafy,
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Bluejointed reed grass spring shoots. Note smooth nodes. narrower stems to reed canary grass
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
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Bluejointed reed grass- ligule
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Brittle prickly pear
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Bull thistle- note stem is not smooth compared to burdock
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Bunchberry- note whorled leaves
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Bunchberry- note whorled leaves
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Burdock- note smooth stem compared to bull thistle
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
Canada Rice Grass - long awns that are twisted
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What Plant is this? what is an Identification feature?
Canada Thistle- Note dandelion type seeds
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Canada thistle- note prickly spine and leaves of Canada thistle are lighter green in colour and relatively hairless in comparison to the dark green and very wooly leaves of bull thistle.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Canada Violet- Note the purple backside of the flower petals. The backside of the flower is purple. This is a distinctive feature of Canada Violet.
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What ligule does this plant belong to?
Canada wild rye
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Canada Wild Rye- bristly seed heads, which curve downward
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Canadian Milkvetch- note alternate comppound leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Caragana- note pods
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Cheat Grass- long awns, jagged ligules
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Chokecherry- Chokecherry is a tall shrub with grayish to reddish colored bark with raised lines. The flowers are a creamy white color and hang in clusters best described by my wild edibles book as “forming bottlebrush like clusters
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Cleavers- Ivasive- often climbing other plants- whorled leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Common Dandelion
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Common Horsetail- first leaves are circular
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Common Junegrass- unawned glumes
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Common Juniper- note blue fleshy like cones
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Common Milkwort- has narrow and pointed leaves that grow alternately up the stem
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Common Snowberry- note opposite leaves and white berries
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Common Snowberry- note opposite leaves and white berries
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Common Sweetgrass- note alternate leaves and vanilla type fragrance
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Cow Parsnip- note hairy stem
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What type of willow is this? HINT yellowish bark
Coyote Willow- note catkins in photo
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What kind of willow is this? HINT grows in shoots
Coyote willow
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Creamy Peavine- note pinnately compounds leaves with tendrils
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What grass does this ligule belong to?
Crested wheatgrass or northern wheatgrass - recognized by its very short ligule
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Crested wheatgrass or northern wheat grass- spikelets usually evenly spaced like the teeth of a comb,
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Crested wheat grass or northern wheat grass- spikelets usually evenly spaced like the teeth of a comb
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Curly dock- note lancelote basal leaves. Invasive species
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Dalmation toadflax- note alternate leaves clasping to stem close together
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Davis Locoweed- Basal, odd-pinnately compound, 3-30 cm long; leaflets 7 to 35 or more- Perennial herb from taproot and branching stem-base- RARE PLANT IN NE BC
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Davis locoweed- basal odd pinnately compound leaves
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What dead flowering plant is this?
Showy Aster
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Douglas Maple- note leaf shape and winged seeds
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Dryland Sedge- note 3 sided stem
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Dwarf blueberry- note alternate leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Dwarf Blueberry- note alternate leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Prairie Smoke- flowers grow in 3 long stalks.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
False Melic - spikelet's with strong purple colouring, Blades are flat, folded lengthwise, or rolled up some along the edges.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
False Solomon- Note alternate leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Fennel-leaved desert parsley
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Field Scabious -coarse toothed basal leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Fireweed- Purple flowers- alternate leaves that are bright green- tall
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Flix weed- stem leaves are very pilated.
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What grass does this ligule belong to?
Foxtail barley
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Foxtail barley- bad for dogs due to long awns
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What grass does this ligule belong to?
Fuzzy spiked wild rye
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Fuzzy spiked wild rye - blades stiff, usually smooth on the lower surfaces and minutely rough above
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Gardners Sagebrush- Leaves alternate, narrowly spoon-shaped to oblong
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Gardners sage brush
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Gardners sage brush- alternate leaves and narrow spoon shaped
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Goldenrod- yellow flowers- stem leaves lance-linear to narrowly lance-elliptic, tapering to an unstalked base
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What tree do these cones belong to?
Green Alder
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What tree does this leaf shape belong to?
Green Alder
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Hair bent grass- awnless or sometimes awned from below the middle on the back, the awns to 2 mm long- basal leaves are flat, finely rough short-hairy
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What grass does this ligule belong to?
Hairbent grass- ligules 2-5 mm long
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What flower do these leaves belong to?
heart leaf arnica - basal leaves heart shaped stem leaves opposite
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What flower is this?
heart leaf arnica - basal leaves heart shaped stem leaves opposite
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What plant does this leaf belong to?
Heart leaved buttercup. Basal leaf
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what plant does this flower belong to?
Heart leaved buttercup
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what plant does this leaf belong to?
Heart leaved buttercuo- stem leaf
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Highbush Cranberry- jaggedly toothed leaves opposite
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Highbush Cranberry- jaggedly toothed leaves opposite
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What plant is this?
Horsetail
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What grass does this ligule belong to?
Inland bluegrass
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
June Grass- unawned and strongly tufted.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Kentucky bluegrass- difficult to distinguish between other blue grasses. Infloresence a pannicle
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Labrador Tea- note the unique leathery leaves that are oblong to elliptical and round down at tip.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Lambs Quarter- Exotic- Stem leaves alternate, somewhat succulent,
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Lambs Quarter- Exotic- Stem leaves alternate, somewhat succulent,
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Lingonberry- Alternate, evergreen, leathery, narrowly elliptic to egg-shaped, 6-15 mm long, 2-9 mm wide, rounded to shallowly notched at tips, shiny green above, pale with brownish or black stalked glands beneath
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Lodgepole Pine- note the stiff bract
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Lodgepole Pine- bark: usually red-brown in colour but can vary, and has fine, curled flakes. needles: yellow-green in colour, twisted, found in pairs and 5-8cm long.
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What flower is this?
Mallow
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Marsh Fleabane- Heads with ray and disk flowers, several to many in a rounded inflorescence
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What plant is this?
Meadow Horsetail-
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What flower is this?
Meadows Goat Beard- Swelling in stem below flower. Leaves are usually coiled or curved at the tip, often in tight curls on upper leaves.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Meadows Goat Beard- Swelling in stem below flower. Leaves are usually coiled or curved at the tip, often in tight curls on upper leaves.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Speckled Alder or Mountain Alder- note how cones are brown compared to green alder.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Mullein- stems tall and erect, wooly leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Mullein- stems tall and erect, wooly leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Nodding Onion- Basal leaves several per bulb, linear, flat to channeled, shorter than the flowering stem, about 3 mm wide, smooth, the margins entire or minutely toothed; stem leaves lacking.
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What flower is this?
Nodding Onion
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
non flowering fireweed note alternate lancelate leaves.png
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Northern Bedstraw - stem leaves in whorls of 4
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What grass is this close up sheath of?
False Melic- note membranous sheath
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Alsike Clover- multi coloured flower.
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What type of Fern is this?
Oak Fern- the frond is triangular shaped
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What type of Fern is this?
Oak Fern- the frond is triangular shape and spores are green underside the leaf.
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What plant does this flower belong to?
Oval Blueberry- corollas pinkish, tubular urn-shaped
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Oval Blueberry-Alternate, deciduous, oval to broadly egg-shaped
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Oval Blueberry-Alternate, deciduous, oval to broadly egg-shaped
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What type of tree does this leaf belong to?
Pacific willow
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Pacific willow or shining willow- The leaves are long, thin, shiny, five to ten centimeters long with finely toothed edges.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Paper Birch- The leaves are triangular, or egg shaped and doubly toothed, dull green on top, paler with a soft down underneath.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Paper Birch- The leaves are triangular, or egg shaped and doubly toothed, dull green on top, paler with a soft down underneath.
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What tree is this bark from knowing it is young?
Paper Birch- often this red hue as a sapling.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Pasture Sage- The oval leaves are rough or wrinkled and usually downy; the colour ranges from gray-green to whitish green, and some varieties are variegated. The flowers are borne in spikes and feature tubular two-lipped corollas
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Pasture Sage- The oval leaves are rough or wrinkled and usually downy; the colour ranges from gray-green to whitish green, and some varieties are variegated. The flowers are borne in spikes and feature tubular two-lipped corollas
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Creamy Peavine- pinnate compound leaf.
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What plant does this flower belong to?
Prairie Buttercup- It sets a single, 5-8-petaled, yellow flower from the axils of the upper leaves at the end of a hairy stalk. Flowers are usually a third-inch to half-inch across. Most plants have three to twelve flowers.
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What plant does this flower belong to?
Prairie Smoke- are pink to reddish purple in color and grow in groups of three on long stalks. Each bloom is ¾-1 inch long with 5 white to pale pink petals hidden under red sepals.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Prairie Smoke- Sepals and floral bracts are hairy on the outer surface.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Prickly Rose- dense prickles on both old and new growth (new growth of Smooth Rose has no prickles), the gland lined edges of the leaf stipules,
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What plant does this flower belong to?
Purple Rattlesnake Root- ray flowers pink or purplish. Fruit is hairlike bristles
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Quack Grass- Inflorescence a spike 5-15 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, erect, with 1 spikelet per node
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Queens Cup- note hairy stalk?
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Red Columbine- Open, branching cluster of hanging, bell-shaped flowers at the top of the plant. The upside-down flowers have 5 yellow petals each rolled into a column and forming a long, red, hollow spur at the top.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Red Dwarf Raspberry or Trailing Raspberry- 5 leaved bramble, prickly stem
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Red Dwarf raspberry or trailing raspberry- 5 leaved bramble, prickly stem
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Red Elderberry- The leaflets are pointed, lance-shaped, and sharply toothed. The small, white or creamy flowers have a strong and unpleasant odour. The berries are bright red and each contain 3-5 smooth seeds. Occasionally the berries are yellow or white.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Red Osier Dogwood- the bright red/orange stem is a good ID. Another giveaway is the lighter underside of the leaf compared to the darker green top.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Red Osier Dogwood- the bright red/orange stem is a good ID. Another giveaway is the lighter underside of the leaf compared to the darker green top.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Red rasberry- Leaves are alternate and compound with 3 or 5 leaflets
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Red rasberry- Leaves are alternate and compound with 3 or 5 leaflets
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Reed Canary Grass- Stems are hollow and can grow up to 2 m tall. They are dense, spiky and narrow when they are
immature and open more widely as they prepare
for pollination. As they grow, they change colour
from green to dark purple-brown.
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What grass is this ligule from?
Reed Canary Grass
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Reed Canary Grass- Stems are hollow and can grow up to 2 m tall. They are dense, spiky and narrow when they are
immature and open more widely as they prepare
for pollination. As they grow, they change colour
from green to dark purple-brown.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Reed Canary Grass- Stems are hollow and can grow up to 2 m tall. They are dense, spiky and narrow when they are
immature and open more widely as they prepare
for pollination. As they grow, they change colour
from green to dark purple-brown.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
rock selaginella - Evergreen perennial forming long or spreading mats
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What plant is this flower from?
Saskatoon Berry
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Saskatoon Berry- Alternate, deciduous, oval to oblong-elliptic or nearly round, saw-toothed mostly on top half but sometimes nearly entire, broadly rounded to somewhat squared-off at the tip, smooth to variously hairy at least below
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What plant does this flower belong to?
Scentless Chamomile
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Scentless Chamomile- The plant is erect with ascending branches and does not have a distinct odour.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Slender Penstemon- stem leaves opposite, unstalked or nearly so, linear-lanceolate, 2-10 cm long, mostly minutely toothed, smooth.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Senega Snakeroot- The leaves are small, lance-shaped, and the flowers are greenish-white, in terminal spike-like inflorescences.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Short awned Mountain Grass- ligules more or less fringed with fine hairs, blunt,
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Short awned Mountain Grass-Inflorescence a slender panicle reduced to a nearly simple raceme, egg-shaped and open at flowering
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Showy Aster- The stem is covered with dense, glandular hairs. Most of the leaves are basal, usually with rough hairs, especially on the underside
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Slender Wheatgrass- spikelets are awnless to short awned
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Slender wheatgrass- spikes can appear one sided
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Smooth Brome- They also have a zig-zag or m-shaped crimp in the middle of the leaf that you can feel if you run your fingers along the leaf blade
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What grass does this ligule belong to?
Smooth Brome- membranous, up to 3 mm long, jagged along the top edge and lacks a fringe of hairs.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Soopolallie or soap berry- Deciduous shrub; stems erect to spreading, young stems brownish-scaled, older branches brownish and scaly. Opposite, entire, elliptic to narrowly egg-shaped
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Sow Thistle- yellow composite (daisy-like) flower heads with strap-shaped flowers, lack of basal leaves, and prickly-margined stem leaves. Plants exude milky juice when broken.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Spreading needlegrass- the awns 15-25 mm long, twice bent
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Stinging Nettle- look for the hairs on its stem, its drooping, catkin flowers, and oval, toothed leaves
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Stinkweed or pennycress- The lower leaves can be in the form of a rosette. In erect plants, the leaves are alternate and without hairs. The upper leaves clasp the stem. The flowers are small, stalked, and have white petals.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Swamp Red Currant- Leaves are 1½ to 3½ inches long, 2 to 4 inches wide, coarsely toothed, straight to heart-shaped at the base, with 3 to 5 primary lobes that may be again shallowly lobed. Veins are prominent and radiate from the base.
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What Plant is this? What is an Identification feature?
Sweet Coltfoot - Leaves on the flower stem are narrowly lance shaped and stalkless becoming smaller, bract-like in the flower cluster.
