evil plant final 2

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lobed margins

light pink flowers in terminal clusters

white berries

opposite branching

snowberry caprifoliaceae symphoricarpos albus

odd pinnate 5-9 leaflets

opposite branching

serrated edged

obovate

dark berry clusters

elderberry - adoxaceae sambucus coerulea

5 merous

some have thorns

lobed + coarsely serrate leaves

small fleshy fruits with star on bottom

hawthorn - rosaceae crataegus sp.

square stems

purple spike flowers

fuzzy lanceolate leaves

lavender - lamiaceae lavandula angustifolia

twisted long thin leaves , twisted branches

alternate leaves

finely serrate

fuzzy catkins, brown capsule fruit clusters

corkscrew willow - salicaceae salix matsudana

bipinnate small leaves

fluffy pink flowers

flat bean seed pods - seeds visible

mimosa - fabaceae albizia julibrissin

choked up

raceme white flowers

serrated edges

dark purple drupe

horizontal lenticels

chokecherry - rosaceae prunus virginiana

cordate to triangular leaves, acuminate

flat or heart shaped base

coarsely crenate (round serrations)

flattened petiol

catkins

brown egg shaped capsules

fremont poplar- salicaceae populus fremontii

terminal and axillary clusters of blue flowers, long stamens

unique small lobes on leaves

18-30 inch growth per year

blue mist/blue beard - lamiaceae caryopteris x clandonensis

dark purple upright spike flowers, orange insides, 4 merous

opposite ovate to lanceolate leaves, dark green 2-8 inches

butterfly bush/summer lilaac - scrophulariaceae buddleja davidii

7-9 odd pinnate opposite

light green to pink flowers

single winged samara in clusters

not serrated but some variation in margin

green ash - oleaceae fraxinus pennsylvanica

curved veins

red drupes

entire margins

fibrous connections in leaves

yellow tight flower slusters before leaves in spring

branching trunks

flowering dogwood- cornaceae cornus florida

acuminate tip, double serrate margins, distinct veining

ribbed nutlet

leafy bracts hanging around seed

catkin from new branch tips

multistemmed, smooth silver muscley bark

american hornbeam/musclewood - betulaceae carpinus caroliniana

alternate leaves 2.5-5.5 inches, stiff and leathery

pinnate veins, end in a tooth

weird spikey nut thingy - 4 valved bur

smooth baRK

american beech - fagaceae fagus grandifolia

obovate

double serrate

round to heart shaped base, glabrous

yelow to purple in fall

showy male catkins, female red catkins

nuts

hazelnut - betulaceae corylus americana

blue appearance

bunch grass

blue fescue - poaceae festuca glauca

leaf similar to maple or tulip tree
bright red berries

wide disk glands

cranberry bush - adoxaceae viburnum opulus

round serrations, long leaves

small yellow flowers

dark green leaves that curve downward

forsythia - oleaceae forsythia suspensa

star shaped leaf

spiky fruit

american sweetgum - hamamelidaceae liquidambar styraciflua

compound leaves

large flat brown pods

3 spines on branches - often not on cultivated trees

honey locust fabaceae gleditsia triacanthos

ovate leaves, dark green lime green or orange/red in the spring

small pink flowers in clusters

round 2-3 foot shrub

bumald spirea - rosaceae spirea x bumalda

alternate simple pinnate veins

irregular doubly serrate leaves

2-5 catkins at the end of twig

female upright catkins/cone fruit

white bark, lenticels

paper birch - betulaceae betula papyrifera

long thin pods

desert willow - bignoniaceae chilopsis linearis

grayish white pubescent branches

deeply lobed skinny leaves silver beneath

purple flowers, puffy things

apache plume Rosaceae fallugia paradoxa

lobed or entire

purple flowers

mini tomato"

climbing nightshade solanaceae solanum dulcamara

alternate simple fine round teeth

2-2.5 inches

circular stipules (mini leaf at stem), thorns

red showy flowers 1-2 inches, 2-3 inch fruit

flowering quince - Rosaceae Chaenomeles japonica

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joshua tree - asparagaceae yucca brevifolia

alternate leaves acuminate tip, 2-4 inches

white flowers 1 inch

round drupe 1 inch yellow or red

american red plum - rosaceae prunus americana

tiny stems inside flower

pink smoke look from seed heads

green or red leaves, entire margine oval to round 1.5 inch to 3.5

notched leaf tip, long petioles, small yellow greent flowers

smokebush - anacardiaceae cotinus coggygria

8-12 leaflets, mucronate tip (little point)

.5 to 1 inch leaflet

even pinnate

yellow flowers

pea like pod 2 inches long, 16th to 8th inch wide, pod opens and twists

tiny thorns

siberian pea shrub - fabaceae caragana arborescens

4 wing papery fruit

thin linear leaves, scurfy (salty) look

four wing saltbush - amaranthaceae atriplex canescens

green photosynthetic stems

mormon tea - ephedraceae ephedra viridis

compound leaves, VERY lobed with serrated margin

pink flower dark berrt dark pyrple green leaves

black elderberry - adoxaceae sambucus nigra

fleshy pads

glokids (spelling??) - warts at base of spine

prickly pear cactus - cactaceae opuntia sp.

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goldenrod - asteraceae solidago canadensis

finely dissected grey gree n leaves upright tiwgs

branched terminal panicals 12-15 inches high

russian sage lamiaceae salvia yangii

alternate ovate leaves, serrated margin red in fall

big round fruit. for pears u can only differentiate with fruit

white flower

asian pear rosaceae pyrus pyrifolia

laneolate dark green 3-6 inch leaves

white or pink flowers before leaves

peach - rosaceae prunus persica

odd pinnate 7-9 leaflets

oval to oblong, entire margin w pointed tip

bamboo stems

tiny whtie flowers, red berries

semi evergreen

heavenly bamboo - berberidaceae nandina domestica

evergreen opposite pair leaves oval to round shiny

greenish yellow flowers inconspicous

boxwood buxaceae buxus sempervirens

oval to ovate

showy pink flowers 1 inch

no fruit

pominent horizontal lenticels, smooth reddish bark

flowering cherry - rosaceae prunus serrulata

thick short pods

even bipinnate leaves, large leaflets, 15+ inches

entire margin

kentucky coffee tree - fabaceae gymnocladus dioica

opposite leaflets, alternate leaves.

glandular end of leaf distinct smell

velvety leave 11-41 leaflets

oblong twisted samara

tree of heaven - simaroubaceae ailanthus altissima

alternate leaves oblong to lanceolate

serrate margine 1-2 inches

white small flowers, quarter inch orange fruit star on bottom

THORNY

scarlet firethorn - rosaceae pyracantha coccinea

white flowers long and drooping branches

alternate simple serrate leaves

serrations on top half

taller shrub than bumald

bridal wreath spirea - rosaceae spirea x vanhouttei

alternate simple cordate leaves 4-5 inches

toothed and lobed

red wooly hairs beneath

green not showy flowers

concord grape - vitaceae vitus labrusca

elliptic to cornade

accuminate tip small serrations red petiol

apricot - rosaceae prunus armeniaca

long oval leaflets long leaves

showy white flowers 1 inch long pea flower

long hanging clusters smaller pods like a snap pea

nothc at end of leaf

black locust - fabaceae robinia pseudoacacia

grooved fruit

small serrations

whtie flowers

long elliptic leaves

plum - rosaceae prunus domestica

alternate ovate leaves fine serrate

shiny green

whtie flowrs

slightly more oblong but not a real diff fromn asian pear

pear - rosaceae pyrus communis

large rachis

larger terminal leaflet

catkins

english walnut - juglandaceae juglans regia

alternate leaves obate elliptic 1-2 inch

white to red flowers

apple - rosaceae malus x domestica

palmate compound alternate leaves

dark berries red stems

big tooth serrations

vine

virginia creeper - vitaceae parthenocissus quinquefolia

showy yummy flow4rs red white pink

dark green shiny top paler below

elliptic to ovate, serrate margin, short petiol

sand paper stems

burkwood’s viburnum - adoxaceae viburnum x burkwoodii

alternate elliptic leaves 2.5 inches serrated margin

inequilateral base of leaves

tiny round wafer fruit quarter to half inch, notch at top

grey green + orange jigsaw bark

chinese elm - ulmaceae ulmus parvifolia

little white flowers in umbels cover the whole plant

alternate simple leaves - elliptic, 2 inches

serrate margin with more on top

not as big as bridal

snowmound - rosaceae spiraea nipponica

dark green on top, silver on bottom

alternate, cordate leaves 2-5 inches, serrate

pale yellow floewrs 7-10 per hanging clusrter with ong bract

round nutlets also have bract

silver linden - malvaceae tilia tomentosa

pink bell shaped flowers 1 inch in clusters

opposite leaves 1.5 to 3 inches, sparse shallow teeth

hair capsule in clusters quarter inch - chicken feet hanging off

beautybush - caprifoliaceae kolkwitzia amabilis

wispy cedar

duck bill cones

incense cedar - cupressaceae calocedrus decurrens

opposite or alternate leaves

coordate, blunt toothed margin, 2-3 inch diamter

emerge purple turn green

small less than one inch curved fruit pods in clusters

katsura tree - cercidiphyllaceae cercidiphyllum japonicum

palmately compound - trifoliate, opposite. ovate, subtle round lobes

v samara in fours, green fuzzy seed capsule

paperbark maple - sapindaceae acer griseum

dark green narrow wrinkly leaves

white to pink flowers

quarter inch red fruit that darkens in the winter

willowleaf cotoneaster - rosaceae cotoneaster salicifolius

small yellow flowers in terminal clusters

glossy green leaves with tapered tips, emerge bronze and turn green

oblong, opposite.

southern bush honeysuckle - caprifoliaceae diervilla sessilifolia

alternate purple maple looking leaves - palmately lobed blunt serrations

white to pink flowers in upright clusters

dried capsules

purple ninebark - rosaceae physocarpus opulifolius

alternate cordate ovate serrate leaves

more abundant white pear flowers

very small round fruit ½ inch or smaller

bradford pear - rosaceae pyrus calleryana

7-11 leaflets, aternate leaves

orange to red tubular leaves

3-6 inch pod 1 inch round winged seeds inside

trumpet creeper vine - bignoniaceae campsis radicans

small fruit

2-8 inches tall, spreading

pink or white flowers

ornamental strawberry - rosaceae fragaria x ananassa

alternate leaves 3-5 loves coarse tooth at end, palmately veined

spherical multiple achene fruit - brown in fall persists in winter

camo bark

london plane tree - platanaceae platanus x acerifolia

opposite oblong entire leaves blue green

bright yellow 5 petaled floewrs at twig ends

lots of stamens

dry capsule fruit

golden st john’s wort - hypericaceae hypericum frondosum

evergreen, oblong leaves with puckered leather look, sandpaper feel

flat cymes of creamy white flowers

berries in fall - oblong flattened look, green —> red —> brown

leatherleaf viburnum - adoxaceae viburnum rhytidophyllum

hollow stems

white to yellow showy flowers

opposite leaves

japanese honeysuckle - caprifoliaceae lonicera japonica

lavneder/blue flowers OR white - upright branches

notched wrinkled leaves

woodland sage - lamiaceae salvia nemorosa

arching red stems

pink flower buds, four petaled snow white flowers

wand like panicles above foliage

whirling butterflies - onagraceae gaura lindheimeri

arching long leaves

clumping sometimes stolons

erect purple whorls of flowers

lilyturf - asparagaceae liriope muscari

obling pointed tip w 3 lobes

yellow green flowers tinted red. in spring

sometimes bright red smaras

amur maple - sapindaceae acer tataricum

pointed tips.5 lobed mustache samara milky sap

norway maple - sapindaceae acer platanoides

round shape, lots of serration

hanging yellow cluster flowers

paired samaras at 45 degree angle hang in clusters, round seed cavities

scale bark

sycamore maple - sapindaceae acer pseudoplatanus

deep lobes

silver bark

silver underside

no samara in the fall

silver maple - sapindaceae acer saccharinum

round lobes and entire margin

flat samaras

often low branches

hedge maple - sapindaceae acer campestre

palmate serrated - 5 leaflets

biggest middle leaflet, rachis same length

smooth husk with seed

ohio buckeye - sapindaceae aesculus glabra

deeply palmate almost look compound

10-20 ft tall, works good in the sahde

90 degree samara - red

sometimes drooping branches

japanese maple - sapindaceae acer palmatum

much bigger than ohio

7 leaflets

same rachis

thick leathery very spiny husk, 2-3 seeds

Horse chestnut - sapindaceae aesculus hippocastanum

diamond to round shape

white veins

black berries

greenish flowers on adults

english ivy - araliaceae hedera helix

3-5 shallow lobes

middle lobe longer than isdes

red petiol, red or yellow hanging cluster flower

red maple - sapindaceae acer rubrum

ever green, glossy leaves, obovate

cuneate base - narrows to petiol

rounded, small serrations

greenish white flowers that are tiny and not noticeable

orange fruit under pink seed covering w sharp tip on fruit

japanese euonymus - celastraceae euonymus japonicus

evergreen, longer thinner leaves

entire margin, dark and pale underneath

5 inch clusters of white flowers

half inch shiny black drupe kind of grape like

cherry laurel - rosaceae prunus laurocerasus

alternate bipinnate leaves, irregular round serrations

bright yellow flowers on mini branch 10-15 inches

paper capsule fruit with three hard black seeds

golden rain tree - sapindaceae koelrueteria paniculata

3-7 oaky lobes, leathery leaf

pale green flowers —> bright white —> pink or brown

oakleaf hydrangea - hydrangeaceae hydrangea quercifolia

cordate leaves, alternate

pink buds

small brown paper pods

redbud - fabaceae cercis canadensis

serrated leaves

showy light pink cup shaped flowers

weigela - caprifoliaceae weigela florida

clusters of 3-7 yellow flowers, lots of stamens, crinkly at tip of flowers

very small leaves

pyramid shape capsule thing

narrow leaves

kalms st johns wort - hypericaceae hypericum kalmianum

3-7 fascicled leaves

red SHREDDY BARK, ALTERNATE

yellow buttercuppy flower - decent size

shrubby cinquefoil - rosaceae dasiphora fruticosa

red stems (sometimes yellow?)

small yellow flowers kinda umbel

bow veins

red osier dogwood - cornaceae cornus sericea

flat needles

citrus cent

2 inches

silver blue green

white fir - pinaceae abies concolor

simple linear 2-5 inches, scattered teeth otherwise entire

catkins

thicket forming

coyote willow - salicaceae salix exigua

pinnate compound leaves, spine tipped

waxy leaves + berries, yellow flowers

oregon grape - berberidaceae berberis repens

trifoliate maple

hanging catkins

box elder - sapindaceae acer negundo

lanceolate 2-5 inches, finely serrate

short, semi flattened petiol

hanging catkins, capsule w cottony seeds

deep furrows in mature bark, lenticels when young

narrowleaf poplar - salicaceae populus angustifolia

semi woody climbing vine

yellow flowers, silky seed plumes

opposite odd pinnate 5-7 leaflets, course toothed or lobed

pepper + cold remedy

old mans beard - ranunculaceae clematis lingusticifolia

cordate to round

fine tooth margin, flattened petiol

quaking aspen - salicacea populus tremuloides