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- Heracleum maximum [p.223] (Cow
- parsnip, hogweed)
- Family: Apiaceae (Parsley)
- Characteristics:
- · Stem ridged, finger-sized, hairy, and hollow
- · Leaves large, 3 compound, sheathed, palmate
- · Flowers white double compound umbel, terminal
- arrangement, newest blooms on inside
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- Acorus calamus [p.1] (sweet flag)
- Family: Araceae (Arum)
- Characteristics:
- · Long, flat leaf with off-center ridge
- · Smells like a lemon bar
- Hundreds of tiny flowers: yellow = stamen, green = stigmatic surfaces
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- Symplocarpus foetidus [p.26] (skunk cabbage)
- Family: Araceae
- Characteristics:
- -Spadix and spathe (variable) tucked on ground, bloom Feb-March
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- Parthenocissus quinquefolia [p.37] (Virginia creeper)
- Family: Vitaceae (Grape)
- Characteristics:
- · Leaves 5 in a whorl
- Flowers green and tucked into vegetation
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- Maianthemum racemosum [p.264] (false Solomon’s seal)
- Family: Liliaceae (Lily)
- Characteristics:
- · Leaves clasping, sessile, parallel venations,
- alternate
- · Flowers terminal, indeterminate
- Spread by rhizome
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- Tussilago farfara [p.26] (coltsfoot)
- Family: Asteraceae
- Characteristics:
- · Leaves chordate, red coloration in
- notch, green above and hairy (short oppressed hairs) below, toothed margins,
- alternate
- Flowers look like
- dandelion (do not have to know)
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- Hesperis matronalis[p.99] (Dame’s rocket)
- Family: Brassicaceae (Mustard)
- Characteristics:
- · Elongated capsules
- · Petioliate leaves, sessile, alternate, pinnate
- · Flowers fourmarous
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- Alliaria petiolata [p.19] (garlic mustard)
- Family: Brassicaceae
- Characteristics:
- · Chordate leaf
- · Fourmarous flowers
- · Invasive
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- Impatiens capensis [p.16] (Spotted jewelweed)
- Family: Balsaminaceae (Touch-me-not)
- Characteristics:
- · Stem succulent and hollow
- · Leaves elliptical, mostly alternate
- · Zygomorphic orange flower
- · Elongated capsules, mature ones explode
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