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Fabaceae-Mimosoideae
Acacia-
leaves are pinnately or bipinnately compound or reduced to the petiole,which is flattened. Stamens are showy, more than ten. Fruit flat or cylindric. Introduced (mainly unarmed) tree in the Bay Area and shrub in the desert with curved prickles. |
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Fabaceae-Mimosoideae
Prosopis
(mesquite) is a desert shrub with even bipinnately compound leaves and 10 stamens. The fruits are indehiscent and either flat or tightly coiled. |
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Fabaceae-Mimosoideae
Cercis
(redbud) is a shrub or small tree with reniform/cordate leaves and pink flowers
that look like Faboideae flowers but have the banner inside the wings. |
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Fabaceae-Faboideae
Lotus
can be annual, perennial, or shrubby. The leaves are usually pinnately compound.Flowers are yellow, white, or reddish and are in umbels or in pairs or singly in the leaf axils. |
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Fabaceae-Faboideae
Lupinus
(lupine) is annual to shrubby with palmately compound leaves. Yellow, purple,
blue, or white flowers are borne in racemes. |
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Fabaceae-Faboideae
Medicago
is annual with pinnately trifoliate leaves, yellow or purple flowers, and coiled
fruits. |
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Fabaceae-Faboideae
Trifolium
(clover) is annual or perennial with palmately trifoliate leaves, white, pink, purple, red, or yellow (rarely) flowers in condensed racemes. Racemes sometimes have involucres. |
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Rhamnaceae
Ceanothus
(California lilac) often has leaves with 3 prominent veins from the leaf base.
Petals and sepals are both colorful and can be white or blue. Fruits are capsules. |
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Rhamnaceae
Rhamnus
(buckthorn) has leaves with one prominent vein. Flower parts are in fours or fives and petals are sometimes absent. Fruits are drupes with 2-4 seeds. 4-parted corolla. |
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Rhamnaceae
Frangula
(alder buckthorn)- similar to rhamnus but with 5-parted corolla. |
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Rosaceae
Adenostoma
(chamise) is an evergreen shrub with clusters of linear leaves. The flowers are small and the fruit is an achene. |
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Rosaceae
Cercocarpus
(mountain mahogany) is a shrub with simple leaves that range from lanceolate to obovate and entire-margined to serrate. The flowers lack petals and the fruit is an achene with a plumose style that is persistent in fruit. |
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Rosaceae
Fragaria
(strawberry) is a stoloniferous herb with ternately compound leaves. Its fruits are achenes borne on the surface of the red, swollen receptacle (the strawberry). |
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Rosaceae
Heteromeles
(Christmas berry or toyon) is a tree with evergreen, oblong leaves with serrate margins. Fruits are small, red pomes. |
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Rosaceae
Holodiscus
(oceanspray) is a deciduous shrub with arching branches and leaves with wedge-shaped bases and tips with rounded teeth. Each fruit produces up to five hairy achenes. |
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Rosaceae
Lyonothamnus
(Catalina ironwood) is an evergreen tree with opposite leaves that are either simple or pinnately compound. The inflorescence is a flat-topped panicle and fruits are
follicles. |
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Rosacea
Oemleria
(oso berry) is a deciduous shrub with elliptic to obovate leaves with entire margins. It is usually dioecious and produces 1-5 small, blue drupes per pistillate flower. |
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Rosaceae
Potentilla
(cinquefoil) is an herb with pinnately, palmately, or ternately compound leaves and yellow or cream-colored petals. Each flower produces many achenes. |
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Rosaceae
Rosa
(rose) is a shrub with prickly stems and pinnately compound leaves with prominent stipules at the base of the petiole. Petals are often pink. Each flower produces many achenes, which are held within a rose hip (the fleshy hypanthium). |
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Rosaceae
Rubus
(blackberry/raspberry/thimbleberry) is a shrub with prickly stems and palmately lobed or compound leaves. The fruit is an aggregate of drupelets. |
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Urticaceae
Urtica (stinging nettle) is covered with stinging hairs. It has opposite leaves and stems can be square, as in mints. |
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