botany field tax facts

ball tillandsia

in same family as pineapple

live oak

all trees in parking lot

loblolly pine

most common pine/ most cultivated in SC

dewberry

berry producing, compound leaf w/ 3 leaflets, has thorns

Japanese honeysuckle

from japan

water oak

spoon shaped leaf, scoop water, like wet soil, hardwood

Yellow jessamine

state flower, poisonous, slick leaf

sweet gum

when fires come, kills other hardwoods but this one, when roots exposed to sunlight grows new tree, lots of sap when wounded “sap flowing”

green brier

thorny, “dang it” vine

rabbit tobacco

back of leaf turns purple later in year

ebony spleenwort

only seedless vascular plant on the list, fern, grows different pH here due to concrete

common dandelion

first to bloom in spring, edible, not native to here

black cherry

true thorns, no horse acess bc as leaf decompose produces cyanide, in same genus as plum, has fruit, serrated leaf like knife

dog fennel

blooms in dog days, tall old growth, produces pollen

sweet gum

has gumballs

cane

blooms everywhere at the same time, our bamboo