week5 local flora

Herb. Stems leggy. Leaves opposite, compound to deeply lobed.

Sunflower-type inforescence (a radiate head) with yellow ray flowers Phyllaries (bracts cupping the inflorescence) dimorphic - outer ones green, inner ones yellow w/ brown spots.

Bidens mitis (smallfruit beggarticks)

Herb. Leaves in basal rosette with smaller leaves on floral stem, emit aromatic "vanilla" odor a few minutes after it is picked. Vivid purple flower heads in panicles on tall scapes. Flowers more spread out. Red stems.

Carphephorus odoratissimus (vanilla leaf)

Herb. Stems threadlike, in clumps. No leaf blades. Inflorescence tiny, cone-like.

Eleocharis baldwinii (road grass)

Shrub. Alterate leaves has rough "veiny" surface (bullate?). Leaf underside has tiny golden dots (glands) that rub yellow on paper GOLD GLITTER. Young twigs sparsely to densely pubescent.

Gaylussacia tomentosa (blue huckleberry)

Herb with alternate, long, narrow, revolute leaves. Sunflower-type inforescence (a radiate head) with yellow ray flowers and purplish brown disk flowers. Phyllaries (bracts cupping the inflorescence) all looking the same - green with pointed apices

Hellianthus angustifolius (swamp sunflower)

Herb, leaves opposite and subcordate to cordate, clasping with heart-shaped bases. Flowers yellow with four petals.

Hypericum tetrapetalum (four petal St. John’s wort)

Shrub. Leaves waxy, tending to be obovate, margin entire but with a few creations/teeth near the apex. Fruit a small black drupe with

"button" stigma.

Ilex glabra (Gallberry)

Small shrub to 2 feet tall. Stems and leaves hairy. Leaves altemate, elliptic. 5 pink petals, with 10 stamens seated in reddish pockets in the corolla. Vertical structure.

Kalmia hirsuta (wicky)

True moss, with whitish-green leaves, growing in tight rounded cushions on soil and bases of trees. More white as it dries

Leucobryum albidum (white pincushion moss)

Shrub to small tree. Leaves obovate to elliptical, with rusty brown pubescence on the underside. Flowers pink, urn-shaped on new growth. Fruit a dry capsule. Revolute sometimes

Lyonia fruticosa (coastal plain staggerbush)

Shrub. Shiny altemate leaves have prominent marginal vein (outlined). Fruit a dry capsule. Flowers pink, um-shaped.

Lyonia lucida (shiny Lyonia)

Tree. Leaf large, shiny dark green on top, frosty whitish on underside. Leaf has aromatic odor when crushed. Circle scars on stem.

Magnolia virginiana (sweetbay magnolia)

Tree. Trunk often swollen at base. Leaves alternate, elliptic to slightly obovate. Acuminate tip.

Flowers/fruits in pairs.

Nyssa biflora (swamp Tupelo)

Large fern. Tufts of cinnamon-brown hairs at base of leaflets. Fertile eaf showy, cinnamon-colored.

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum (cinnamon fern)

Tree. Leaves long-elliptic, sometimes diamond-shaped. Both leaf surfaces glabrous. Fully late-deciduous. Flexible leaf and non-cavernous bark. Vertical structure unlike live oak.

Quercus laurifolia (laurel oak)

Vine. Stems tough, variably prickly. Leaf shape variable; margin stiff and smooth, with marginal vein. Paired tendrils often present at base of petioles.

Smilax auriculata (earleaf greenbrier)

Vine. Leaf has glaucous (frosty-whitish) underside. Thorns at nodes. Revolute but NO marginal vein

Smilax glauca (cat greenbrier)

Shrub. Low-growing. Leaves very small, elliptic, shiny on top, serrate. Flowers urn-shaped, pendulous. Fruit a berry.

Vaccinium myrsinites (shiny blueberry)