WLD 340

Calystegia spithamaea

Low bindweed

Clintonia borealis

Yellow bead-lily

(Bill (Bin bead and borealis)) Clinton)

Coptis trifolia

Goldthread

(Gold cop is trifolin’)

Cornus alternifolia

Alternate-leaved dogwood

(alternate - alterni, cornus is the pattern on the leaves

Cornus Canadensis

Bunchberry

(cornus pattern on leaves and “bunch of berries in canada”)

Diervilla lonicera

Bush honeysuckle

Eurybia macrophylla

Large-leaved aster

(Macro - large) (you need a large leaf to wipe your aster)

Gaultheria procumbens

Wintergreen

(G in Gaultheria and G in green)

Heracleum maximum

American cow parsnip

(Americans want max cow)

Ilex mucronata

Mountain holly

Leaves alternate, 5-10ft forb

(very fine tips on tip of leaf)(pointed mucronata mountain)

Ilex verticillata

Common winterberry

Simple alternate leaves, 3-15 ft tall shrubs

Maianthemum racemosum

False solomon’s-seal

Hairy on both sides

Onoclea sensibilis

Sensitive fern

(leaflets are intact instead of fingerlike)

Polygonatum pubescens

Hairy solomon’s-seal

Hanging flowers and flowers on underside

(pubescens in latin means hairy or becoming mature)

Prenanthes alba

Rattlesnake root

Prunus pensylvanica

Pin cherry

(hair on underside of leaf)(Pin - pensylvania)

Prunus serotina

Black cherry

(hair on underside of leaf vein and shaggy bark)

Finely serrated, simple, alternate, glossy lance shaped leaves on 25-110 ft trees

Prunus virginiana

Choke cherry

Much wider alternate oval leaves with distinct veins

(choke the virgin ☹ )

Ribes

Currant spp

Shrub with alternate palmate leaves with a maple line and no prickles

Rubus ideaus

Red raspberry

Compund leaves green above, white and hairy underneath with erect arching canes and small straight prickles

(raspberries are ideal)

Rubus pubescens

Dwarf raspberry

Spineless creeping stems, with trifoliate alternate doubly serrated margin leaves

Rubus spp

Blackberry

Alternate compound leaves usually 3-7 leaflets

Rubus spp.

Upland dewberry

Streptopus lanceolatus

Twisted stalk

HAIRY MARGINS

(strept stalk)

Thuja occidentalis

Northern white cedar

Trillium grandiflorum

Large-flowered trillium

Uvularia sessilifolia

Sessile bellwort

4-15 in tall wildflower with stalkless leaves (sessiles) NO HAIR

Viburnum acerfolium

Maple-leaved vibernum

3-6 ft tall shade tolerant native shrub

(Acer is the scientific species name for maple trees!)

Vibernum rafinesqueanum

Downy arrowwood

3-10ft tall shrub with straight stems and coarsely toothed oval leaves and fuzzy undersides

(rafine the arrow)

Vibernum trilobum

Highbush cranberry

Maple leaved shrub with 3 lobes, 8-12 ft tall, and stalks that have wart-like glans with a V shaped leaf base

Waldesteina fragarioides

Barren strawberry