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Cupressaceae
Taxodium distichum
Bald Cypress
OBL
Synapomorphies: soccer ball-shaped cones
Characteristics: deciduous soft needles, scratchy bark.
Poaceae
Sorghum halepense
Johnson grass
FACU
Synapomorphies: long light stripe in center of leaf
Characteristics: panicle inflorescence, reddish color
Polygonaceae
Persicaria pensylvanicum
Pensylvania smartweed
FACW
Synapomorphy: hairless ochrea
Characteristics: pink to purple flowers in a raceme
Convulvulaceae
Calystegia sepium
Appalachian false bindweed
FAC
Synapomorphies: climbing/twining habit, arrow-shaped leaves
Characteristics: two bracts at base of corolla, fused and symmetrical corolla
Salicaceae
Salix exigua
Coyote/sandbar willow
FACW
Synapomorphies: leaf margins with 1-5 teeth per cm, hairy capsules on fruit
Characteristics: woody plant, narrow leaves with acuminate tip and toothed margins
Bignoniaceae
Campsis radicans
Trumpet creeper
FAC
Synapomorphies: woody vine, orange-red tubular flowers, fruit is a long pod with feathery seeds inside
Characteristics: opposite, pinnately compound leaves, 7-11 leaflets, serrated margins
Malvaceae
Sida spinosa
Prickly fanpetals
FACU
Synapomorphies; spiny stipule where leaf attaches, lanceolate leaves with serrated margins
Characteristics: yellow flowers with fused calyx, presence of epicalyx (extra whorl of bracts below calyx)
Dryopteridaceae
Onoclea sensibilis
sensitive fern
FACW
Synapomorphies: large fronds are sterile, separate smaller frond has all the spores
Characteristics: dimorphic fronds, sterile fronds pinnatified
Vitaceae
Ampelopsis cordata
raccoon grape
FAC
Synapomorphies: simple, slightly lobed leaves in cordate shape with toothed margins
Characteristics: climbing vine with tendrils, flowers in clusters.
Polygonaceae
Persicaria hydropiperoides
false water pepper
OBL
Synapomorphies: 2-10 mm cilia coming from ochrea
Characteristics: flowers not as dense in raceme, often stoloniferous, flowers light pink to dark pink/purple
Fagaceae
Quercus bicolor
Swamp white oak
FACW
Synapomorphies: acorn attached to long peduncle
Characteristics: shallowly lobed leaves, broadest at apex
Typhaceae
Typha angustifolia
narrow-leaved cattail
OBL
Synapomorphies: more than 2 cm between male and female flower clusters, leaves less than 10 cm wide
Characteristics: cylindrical floral clusters, each one turning into single seeded capsule, parallel venation, leaves alternate
Poaceae
Arundinaria giganita
Giant cane
FACW
Bisexual flowers, stems perennial, can become woody
Asteraceae
Vernonia gigantea
Tall ironweed
FAC
less than 30 flowers per head, trichomes (short straight hairs) on bottom of leaf
Bignoniaceae
Impatiens capensis
Orange touch-me-not
FACW
Orange flowers
Poaceae
Microstegium vimineum
Japanese stiltgrass
FAC
fruits in spikelets in pairs, ciliate hairs where sheath of leaf meets stem, spread stoloniferously
Urticaceae
Pilea pumila
clearweed
FACW
Distinct arcuate venation, serrated margin, white flowers in axillary clusters
Asteraceae
Rudbeckia laciniata
cutleaf coneflower
FACW
Yellow ray florets, disc florets on arching receptacle, greenish disc florets especially when young, distinct lobed, jagged leaves
Campanulaceae
Lobelia siphilitica
great blue lobelia
FACW
Fused corolla divided into two lips, no globous looking structure at base, stamens aggregated around style, bluish white flowers, slit-like openings at base of flower, calyx has oracles
Araceae
Lemna minor
common duckweed
OBL
1-5 mm, floating, primarily asexual. Each thallus has single roots
Araceae
Wolffia columbiana
colombian watermeal
OBL
very small, almost microscopic. like still or slow-flowing waters, vegetative reproduction by budding
Platanaceae
Platanus occidentalis
sycamore
FACW
distinctive bark and leaves
Salicaceae
Salix nigra
black willow
FACW
leafy stipules paired where leaf meets stem, much more serrations in leaf margin
Asteraceae
Eclipta prostrata
false daisy
FAC/FACW
Whitish disc florets, extremely reduced pappus, creeping form, disturbed moist environments
Cyperaceae
Cyperus strigosus
straw-colored flat sedge
FACW
Achenes not enclosed, terminal clusters of spikelets with overlapping scales, smooth stems, no trichomes, very dense golden-colored scales
Typhaceae
Typha latifolia
common cattail
OBL
Male flower very close to female flowers, wider leaves