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Native plant i.d. and floristics VII
pellville area prairies
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Biology
Graduate
10/17/2010

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Amorpha canescens

Lead plant

 

Family: Fabaceae

compound leaves are whitish to greyish green

leaves sometimes covered with fine white hairs

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Anemone cylindrica

Candle anemone/Thimbleweed

 

Family: Ranunculaceae

 

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Aster parviceps

Small-heased aster

 

Family: Asteraceae

 

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Baptisea lactea

White wild indigo

 

Family: Fabaceae

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Calamagrostis canadensis

Blue joint grass

 

Family: Poaceae

 

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Coreopsis palmata

Prairie coreopsis

 

Family: Asteraceae

opposite leaves

hairless leaves

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Helianthus mollis

Downy sunflower

 

Family: Asteraceae

stem and leaves covered covered with fine hairs

broadly laanceolate leaves; either clasp the stem or are sessile

smooth margins or have small blunt teeth

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Panicum capillare

Old witch grass

 

Family: Poaceae

 

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Physostegia virginiana

Obedient plant

 

Family: Lamiaceae

very square stem; hairless

opposite leaves; sessile, hairless, sharply-pointed

widely spaced teeth along the margins

 

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Pycnanthemum virginianum

Common mountain mint

 

Family: Lamiaceae

square stem

scattered white hairs along ridges

sessile leaves with smooth margins

 

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Solidago altissima

Canada goldenrod

 

Family: Asteraceae

 

 

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Solidago missouriensis

Missouri goldenrod

 

Family: Asteraceae

tall and unbranched(except for flowering stalks near apex)

leaves serrated along the margins

most leaves have 3 parallel veins

hairless foliage

 

 

 

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Sporobolus heterolepis

Northern drop seed

 

Family: Poaceae

 

 

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Viola pedatifida

Prairie violet

 

Family: Violaceae

basal leaves have a deeply lobed palmate structure and are rather fan-shaped in appearance

 

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