PLSC211 exam 2

Adiantum pedatum (northern maidenhair fern)

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