PLSC211 exam 2

Adiantum pedatum (northern maidenhair fern)

-small, long and thin green leaves that grow off stems
-wiry stems, reddish-brown to black

Athyrium felix-femina (lady fern)

-fine toothed leaves

Athyrium nipponicum (Japanese painted fern)

-many colors

Dennstaedta punctiloba (eastern hay scented fern)

-aromatic

Dryopteris erythrosora (autumn fern)

-evergreen or semi evergreen

Osmunda regalis var spectabilis (royal fern)

-lacy

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum (cinnamon fern)

-fiddleheads look like cinnamon sticks
-cinnamon colored fibers near frond bases

Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)

-leathery
-evergreen

Acer griseum (paperbark maple)

-peeling bark

Acer palmatum (Japanese maple)

-reddish purple leaves

Carpinus caroliniana (musclewood)

-serrated leaves
-bark looks like muscles
-seedheads that hang down

Euonymous americanus (strawberry bush)

Fraxinus americana (white ash)

-usually emerald ash borer holes (small D shaped holes)
-diamond shaped bark, esp on bottom of trunk

Gleditsia triacanthos (honey locust)

-can be thornless
-long bean like seedpods
-tiny compound leaves that look like ferns

Gymnocladus dioicus (Kentucky coffeetree)

-brown seed pods in fall
-seedpods shorter and thicker
-yellow green fall foliage
-long, bare leaf stems dropped or still on tree in fall

Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)

-have those flat seed pods with the cone like spike that hurt bad to step on barefoot

Ostrya virginiana (musclewood)

-flowers look like hops
-peeling bark

Rosa "Radrazz" Knockout

Amsonia hubrichtii (blue star)

Opuntia humifusa (eastern prickly pear)

-i mean its a cactus

Acer saccharum (sugar maple)

-usually has sapsucker holes
-winged samaras
-stringy flowers
-darker bark
-no/few leaves in fall

Cercidiphyllum japonicum (katsura tree)

-big boy
-lily pad shaped leaves

Cotinus coggygria (smokeshrub)

-yellow to purplish leaves in fall
-some have red leaves year round
-leaves almost circular
-shrub

Cotinus obovatus (American smoketree)

-tree
-leaves round
-orange, yellow, pink leaves in fall

Diospyros virginiana (common persimmon)

-orange fruit
-thick gray bark, divided into squares, look like alligator skin
-bases of fruits look like clovers
-mature ones w blocky bark

Ginkgo biloba (ginkgo)

-leaves come from pegs on branch

Ilex verticillata (winterberry)

-berries tight against branch
-leaves not pokey

Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood)

-big boy
-feathery, fern like foliage that is soft
-deeply fissured bark
-conical
-cones point up
-'armpits' flat
-no knees

Morella cerifera (southern bayberry)

-wont see this on central campus
-bigger

Morella pensylvaicum (northern bayberry)

-waxy gray fruits
-dark green and glossy leaves
-leaves aromatic

Oxydendrum arboreum (lily of the valley tree)

Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)

-holds on via suckers

Physocarpus opulifolius (common ninebark)

-foliage can be deep purple to red

Rhus aromatica "Grow-Low" (fragrant sumac)

-shrub, spreads more
-aromatic leaves
-small flower buds
-thigh high ish

Taxodium distichum (bald cypress)

-knees
-feather like needles
-red spots on bark

Taxodium ascendens (swamp cypress)

-whispy like
-needles free
-knees

Zelkova serrata (Japanese zelkova)

-smooth gray bark when young, reveals orange inner bark with aging
-serrated leaves
-branches V shaped from trunk
-peely bark

Andropogon virginicus (broom sedge)

-chest ish height
-color has some red and salmon/peach
-fluffy seeds

Aronia arbutifolia (red chokeberry)

-berries hang down from ends of branches

Aronia melanocarpa (black chokeberry)

-berries hang down from ends of branches

Calamagrostis x acutiflora (feather reed grass)

-very upright, slender, vertical
-pointy/linear seed heads

Carex pensylvanica (Pennsylvania sedge)

-sedges have edges
-short
-clumped
-finer leaves than H. macra

Deschampsia cespitosa (tufted hair grass)

-looks fluffy
-not pink
-semievergreen

Festuca glauca (blue fescue)

-blue

Molinia arundinacea (purple moor grass)

-tall
-airy seed heads
-yellow in fall

Muhlenbergia capillaris (muhly grass)

-pink
-fluffy, cloud/haze like
-yellow green leaves

Nessella tenuissima (Mexican feather grass)

-semievergreen
-droopy, fluffy looking

Panicum virgatum (switchgrass)

-tall
-yellow or red in fall
-seed heads airy and open (some cultivars denser)

Schizachyrium scoparium

-blueish (can be colorful in fall)
-slender
-shorter
-white fuzzy seedheads

Scirpus cyperinus (woolgrass)

-droopy and fluffy seed heads

Camellia japonica (and hybrids) (camellia)

-evergreen
-blooming in fall
-serrate leaves
-fragrant

Fagus grandifolia (American beech)

-serrated leaf edges
-leaves bigger
-smooth gray bark

Fagus sylvatica (European beech)

-smooth bark
-wavy edged leaves

Fothergilla gardenii (dwarf fothergilla)

-usually bright colored leaves in fall
-buds gray brownish
-short

Hamamelis virginiana (American witch-hazel)

-stringy yellow flowers

Ammophila breviligulata (American beach grass)

-elongated flower spikes

Bouteloua gracilia (blue grama)

-caterpillar liek seed heads

Carex appalachica (Appalachian sedge)

-narrow, whispy leaves
-clumpy

Carex laxiculmus (spreading sedge)

-bluish, evergreen
-thicker leaves

Carex plantaginea (plantain leaf sedge)

-semi evergreen
-very thick leaves

Carex cultivars (ornamental sedge)

-not rlly sure what she wants us to know with this, im jj

Chasmanthium latifolium (northern sea oats)

-flat seed heads

Sporobolus heterolepis (prairie dropseed)

-short
-orange ish color in fall
-seeds usually bigger

Comptonia peregrina (sweet fern)

-aromatic
-shrubby
-thick leaves

Quercus alba (white oak)

-rounded lobes on leaves
-sinus depth varies
-underside whitish color
-warty acorn cap

Quercus imbricaria (shingle oak)

-oblong leaves (bigger than Q. phellos)

Quercus bicolor (swamp white oak)

-leaf sides very different colors
-shallower sinuses
-leaf widens at end
-branch bark peely
-acorns on long stems

Quercus coccinea (scarlet oak)

-egg shaped sinuses
-sinuses very deep, make leaf look thin/stringy

Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak)

-funky leaves with big head
-acorn cap with fuzzy margins

Quercus palustris (pin oak)

-bottom leaf lobes almost horizontal
-sinuses U shaped, can be deep
-ladder like branch placement
-acorns with flat cap

Quercus phellos (willow oak)

-thin oblong leaves
-a crap ton of leaves on the ground in fall

Quercus rubra (red oak)

-large leaves
-pointed lobes and shallower sinuses
-acorn with shallow cap
-darker bark
-no fuzz on leaf underside

Quercus velutina (black oak)

-fewer lobes on leaf
-fuzz on underside of leaf
-acorn cap covers 1/2 or more of the acorn
-darker bark

Rhus typhina "Tiger Eyes" (staghorn sumac)

-orange to scarlet fall color
-bright red to dark red hairy drupes on female flowers
-purple ish branches and stems
-stems soft and fuzy

Aucuba japonica (spotted laurel)

-plain green leaves in straight species
-usually a cultivar, with yellow (or other color) spots
-sometimes bri

Cedrus atlantica "Glauca" (blue atlas cedar)

-bluish
-shorter needles in bundles that come out of pegs
-irregular or flat topped in overall shape

Chimonanhis praecox (wintersweet)

-foliage rough and glossy
-may not have flowers in fall

Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese cedar)

-nubbins (flowers?) at ends of some needles
-droopy, linear needles, have sharp points
-spikey like pinecones (green to brown)

Ilex cornuta (Chinese holly)

-spiky leaves, not as many points
-red berries tight against branch
-rectangular leaves

Ilex crenata (box leaved holly)

-smaller leaves (size of fingernail), not spiky
-sometimes black berries
-many cultivars that change its overall shape

Ilex glabra (inkberry)

-black berries tight against branch
-leaves not spiky (at least not much)
-bigger leaves (size of finger)

Ilex opaca (American holly)

-tree
-less shiny leaves
-more spiky leaves
-berries tight on branch

Juniperus chinensis (Chinese juniper)

-dark blue green, flat, scale like needles
-light blue seed cones in female
-exfoliating light brown bark

Juniperus procumbens "Nana" (Japanese garden juniper

-flat
-spiny pointed blue green needles in whorls of tree

Juniperus squamata "Blue Star" (blue star juniper)

-shrub
-

Juniperus virginiana (eastern red cedar)

-blue berries
-scaly needles when adult, spiny needles when baby

Microbiota decussata (Russian arborvitae)

-flat shrub
-lacy needles

Nandina domestica (heavenly bamboo)

-yellow to scarlet foliage in fall
-clusters of red to yellow berries in fall
-many cultivars

Picea abies (Norway spruce)

-conical, typical Christmas tree
-can be dwarf
-individual needles

Picea pungens (blue spruce)

-blue
-can be dwarf

Yucca filamentosa (Adam's needle)

-spiky
-stringy filaments on leaves

Cedrus deodora (deodar cedar)

-soft looking
-long needles
-pinecones grow upwards
-conical