Suwannee River

Latin names of plants

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Question 1
Herb, stems tender, pubescent, reddish. Leaves opposite, rought to touch. Flower heads yellow, receptacle cone shaped, like sunflower shaped
Acmella repens (open we places)
Question 2
Bark peels off like paper. Leaf doubly serrate with broadly wedge-shaped base. Supersoft leaves like cloth - lots of hair
Betula nigra (Riverbank s)
Question 3
Small tree. smooth bark has "muscular" surface. Doubly serrate leave margin. secondary veins prominent, regularly spaced.
Carpinus caroliniana (WH, FP)
Question 4
Important for wildlife (fruit) Tree. Leaves alternate, pinnate cpd, with nut husk winged. fleshy part falls off inside nut
Carya aquatica (FP)
Question 5
Morphologically variable, seed without fertilization, modified short shoots so thorns, small shrub/tree. many leaves vaguely 3 lobed. secondary veins end only at teeth or points, not at gaps, on margin. fruit "apple"
Cratagus viridis (FP, WH)
Question 6
Tree leaf whitish green on bottom. fruit edible, with prominent persistent calyx. brised leaf tissue turns black (spotted leaves)
Diospyros virginiana (H, FW, SH)
Question 7
Shrub. Branches arching. leaves opposite with acuminate apex. drupe fruit (olive)
Forestiera acuminata (sw, WH)
Question 8
Tree. clumping habit. compound leaf. leaves opposite, pinnate. Leaflets green on bottom. fruit a samara
Fraxinus caroliniana (sw)
Question 9
Deciduous. leaves glabrous, waxy, narrowly obovate with cuneate base. fruits red with button stigma (all hollies), multi seeded drupes
Ilex decidua (fp)
Question 10
True dominant cover. flower deep dark red (grass) herb, two ranked leaves compound inflourenceses
Panicum rigidulum (FP)
Question 11
Acorns float cup covers lyre-shaped leaf
Quercus lyrata (fp)
Question 12
Tall herb, pinnately compound leaves, legume fruit, early successional species
Sesbania vesicaria (FP ruderal
Question 13
Shrub. leaves shiny, veiny (reticulate) elliptic obovate apex emerginate. leaves emerge from brance in clusters short shoots, milky sap. drupe fruit thorn variable
Sideroxylon reclinatum (FP)
Question 14
Air plant, not as many scales as other species, spirally arranged leaves, linear , gray -green
Tillandsia bartramii (h)
Question 15
Tree. leaf thick , doubly serrate, rough on top surface. bark shaggy. twigs have corky ridges. fruit a samara. more rounded, sand paper leaves
Ulmus crassifolia (fp)