Plant Identification and Features Flashcards

A set of vocabulary flashcards covering botanical terminology and specific plant characteristics from the lecture transcript.

Nandina domestica

Heavenly bamboo; an erect shrub reaching $2\,m$ tall with bi- to tri-pinnately compound evergreen leaves and bright red berries.

Taxus x media “Hicksii”

Hick’s English yew; narrow and upright coniferous shrub with reddish bark and modified seed cones called an aril.

Sequoiadendron giganteum

Giant sequoia; reaching heights of $50-85\,m$, with awl-shaped leaves and soft reddish bark.

Tsuga heterophylla

Western hemlock; large evergreen with a drooping lead shoot and two distinctive white bands of stomata on the underside of the needles.

Cornus stolonifera

Red twig shrub dogwood; deciduous shrub with red stems in winter and veins that meet at the tip of each leaf.

Euonymus alatus

Winged euonymus; deciduous shrub notable for four corky ridges or wings on the stems; turns bright red in fall.

Acer griseum

Paperbark maple; small to medium deciduous tree with smooth orange-red bark that peels in thin, papery layers.

Liquidambar styraciflua

American sweetgum; deciduous tree with palmately lobed leaves and bark that attaches to twigs in plates edgewise, giving a reptilian form.

Rhus typhina

Staghorn sumac; deciduous tree with pinnately compound leaves $25-55\,cm$ long and stems covered in rust-coloured hairs; spreads by underground rhizomes.

Arctostaphylos uva ursi

Kinnickinnick; a procumbent woody groundcover with small, thick, shiny evergreen leaves and red berries.

Vinca minor

Periwinkle; a trailing ground cover with opposite, leathery, glossy dark green leaves and five-lobed violet-purple flowers.

Parthenoscissus tricuspidata

Boston ivy; a deciduous woody vine that attaches via branched tendrils tipped with sticky disks.

Wisteria floribunda

Japanese wisteria; deciduous vine with powerful woody clockwise-twining stems and poisonous, brown, velvety, bean-like seed pods.