Wetland Ecology Lab Plants

Acer rubrum (red maple)

Quercus bicolor (swamp white oak)

Carpinus caroliniana (American hornbeam)

Clethra alnifolia (coast pepperbush)

Cornus amomum (silky dogwood)

Ilex glabra (Inkberry)

Ilex verticilata (Winterberry)

Lindera benzoin (Spicebush)

Lyonia ligustrina (Maleberry)

Rhamnus frangula (Glossy false buckthorn)

Rhododendron viscosum (swamp azalea)

Toxicodendron radicans (Eastern poison ivy)

Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry)

Eupatorium perfoliatum (common boneset)

Impatience capensis (jewelweed)

Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern)

Osmunda spectabilis (royal fern)

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum (cinnamon fern)

Sagittaria (arrowhead)

Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage)

Thelypteris noveboracensis (new york fern)

Thelypteris simulata (massachusetts fern)

Smilax rotundifolia (common greenbrier)

“the danglers” = berries that come in pairs, non-toothed and non-lobed leaves

Nyssa sylvatica (black gum)

leaves face up, cones and lenticles!

Alnus serrulata (hazel alder)

nerd gummy cluster fruits

Cephalanthus occidentalis (buttonbush)

droops and reroots

Decodon verticillatus (swamp lossestrife)

gray, smooth bark. TINY round bud

Eubotrys racemosa (fetterbush)

square stem, opposite leaves that are long

Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)

oval leaf, floats on water

Brasenia schreberi (water-shield)

wide, W shape point, looks grassy, downward hanging fruit

Carex lurida (shallow sedge)

MOUND! V shaped leaf

Carex stricta (tussock sedge)

round until top, not round at top

Cladium mariscoides (twig-rush)

based on # of leaves, closed leaf sheath

Dulichium arundinaceum (three-way sedge)

short skinny, grasslike leaves

Euthamia graminifolia (common grass-leaved-goldenrod)

deep veins in leaves, more (whorled) leaves at bottom

Euthrochium dubium (joe pye weed)

obvious joints, tight clustered fruits at top

Glyceria obtusa (manna grass)

opposite, leaves grow around stem, delicate look

Hypericum virginicum (marsh St johns wort)

round at all points

juncus canadensis (canadian rush)

round, small fruits on side

juncus effusus (soft rush)

hollow stem, pulling up the top will make cracking sound

juncus militaris (bayonet rush)

thin leaves, fruits leave behind 4 pronged buds (rare species!)

Ludwiga sphaerocarpa (round pod water primrose)

round, not oval. think pacman

Nymphaea odorata (water lily)

INVASIVE!!! also closed joints

Phragmites australis (common reed)

One leaf out of water, heart shaped leaf w/ rounded lobes

Pontederia cordata (pickerelweed)

Tall, pointy fruits

Rhynchospora marcostachya (tal break sedge)

Pinecone like fruits on sides

Schoenoplectus pungens (three square bulrush)

Tall, wooly fruit

Scirpus cyperinus (wooly sedge)

Sparganium (bur-reeds)

Typha (broad leaf cattail)

tall, slender stem w/ “pinecone” on top

Xyris