Habitat lab 2

Sicklepod

Senna obtusifolia

• Rounded alternating leaves

• Seed pods

• Has a smell

Morning Glory

Ipomoae

• trumpet, bell shaped flower

• Purple/pink/blue flowers

• Hummingbirds and butterflies eat out the flower

• Not a seed producer

Thistle

Cirsium

• Purple flowers, visited by insects

• Prickly base

• stem with sharp, spiny wings

Brazilian Vervain

Verbena brasiliensis

• square stem

• Purple flower

• serrated leaves

• not a forage plant

Lovegrass

Eragrostis

• large panicum

• Fine, narrow seed head

• purplish hue

• Low growing, hairy stem

• Produces lots of seeds

Blackberry

Rubus

• thorns grow downwards

• trifoliate, serrated leaf edges

• Berries, wildlife like

Rabbit tobacco

Pesudognaphalium obtusifolium

• whitish powder coat

• Small bud-like flowers with yellowish/brownish tips

• Alternate leaves with blunt tips

• Poor forage plant, seed producer

foxtail grass

Setaria

• foxtail head shape

• Prolific seed producer

• Last option forage

Dallisgrass

paspalum dilatatum

• alternate leaves

• Perpendicular to stem!

Bahiagrass

Paspalum notatum

• Y-shaped

Vaseygrass

Paspalum urvillei

• taller

• Floppy

• Problematic

• Grows upward

Purple top grass

tridens flavus

• purple inflorescences

• Greasy texture

• Single seed head per branch

Honey locust

Gleditsia triacanthos

• thorns

• Legumes

• Seeds pods

• Wildlife forage

Winged Sumac

Thus copallinum

• compound leaf

• Winged main vein

• Produces seed head

• Stays all winter, wildlife last resort