Botany Sight ID

Ipomoea purpurea - Convolvulaceae - non-native, naturalized

Hairy, twining vine

Hairy stems and sepals

Alternate heart-shaped leaves

Star-shaped corolla, pentamerous

Bisexual

Ipomoea hederacae - Convolvulaceae - non-native, naturalized

Hairy, twining vine

Hairy stems and sepals

Alternate 3-lobed leaves

Star-shaped corolla, pentamerous

Bisexual

Toxocodendron radicans - native

Shrub or woody vine (Liana)

Leaflets of 3

Leaflets can be oily/shiny and red when young

Alternate leaves

Compound entire leaves

Red leaflet base

Unisexual and monoecious flowers

Panicles of yellow-green flowers

Green-white drupe fruits

Boehmeria cylindrica - native

Small herbaceous plant

Little fuzzy green flowers on stem

Long stalked opposite leaves

Clusters on greenish flowers in upward arching spikes

Cardiospermum halicacabum - non-native invasive

Compound, serrated, alternate leaves

Herbaceous vine

Inflated fruits

Sida spinosa - non-native naturalized

Soft, hairy, and weedy

Alternate leaves, ovate to oblong

Toothed leaves

Slender petioles

Small tubercle at base of lover leaves

Pale yellow flowers

Agrimonia parviflora - Rosaceae - native

Compound, serrated, and hairy leaves

Raceme

Little yellow flowers

9-17 leaflets

Tiny pedicle

Lemna minuta - native

Very tiny

Biracial

Floating

Thallus

Always green

1 root at each thallus

Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Vitaceae - native

Alternate leaves with 5 leaflets Tiny

Palmately compound

Woody vine- Liana

Modified branches

Adhesive pads

Campsis radicans - native

Zygomorphic tubular

Red flower that is bell shaped

Woody vine - Liana

Bent stamen

Not pressed to tree

Opposite, comping, serrated pinnate

Smallanthus uvedalia - Asteraceae - native

Yellow flowers

Capitula inflorescence

Herbaceous

Large, opposite, serrated, and rough leaves

3 lobes

Winged pedicle

Narrow stem

Oxalis stricta - native

Herbaceous

3 leaflets with notches

“Clover-like”

Yellow flowers with 5 petals (pentamerous)

Upright capsules

Persicaria punctata - Polygonaceae - native

erect, sparsely-flowered, and interrupted flower spikes

gland-dotted green-to-white sepals.

Flower spikes

Small pentamerous flowers

5 tepals

Alternate smooth leaves

Ocreae - stem sheaths

Diodia virginiana - Rubiaceae - native

Branched, hairy stems

Simple opposite leaves

Linear stipules that connect opposite leaves across stem

White trumpet shaped flowers

Fused corella

Hairy rubbed capsules

Solitary flowers

Lobelia cardinalis - native

Red zygomatic flowers with two lobes

Alternate leaves

Raceme

Herbaceous

Asclepias incarnata - native

Opposite leaves

Actinomorphic

Pink flowers

Hoods, horns, and hooks

Fruit = huge erect follicle

Dry, dehiscent, one line

Fluff on seeds

Apios americana - Fabaceae - native

Tubers underground

Zygomorohic

Pentamerous

Herbaceous vine

Fruit = green and bean-like

Alternate leaves

5-7 leaflets

Dark, maroon, small, clustered flowers

Ampelopsis cordata - Vitaceae - native

Liana

Alternate, simple, serrated leaves

Heart shaped leaves

Modified branches to climb

Berry fruits

Pink to purple flowers

Impatiens capensis - native

Alternate 1-4” leaves

Chasmogamous (closed mature) orange-yellow flowers

Cliestogamous (open mature) green flowers

Smooth leaves

Orange sac-like sepals

Explosive dispersal

Bisexual

Stamens develop and declines

Then the carples develop and decline

Cuscuta gronovii - Convolvulaceae - native,

Orange stem

No leaves

Parasitic

Stem twinners

Reed root dies off and the shoot seeks out other plant for nutrients

Plugs into the vascular of the plant (haustorium) with modified stem

Lysimachia nummularia - nonnative invasive

Sprawling reclining plant

Herbaceous

Shiny, opposite leaves

Little round leaves

Pentamerous

Cephalanthus occidentalis - Rubiaceae - native

Shrub

Opposite leaves

Ball head inflorescence

“Truffla tree (Dr. Seuss)”

Tetramerous (4)

Clematis terniflora - nonnative invasive

Opposite, compound, pinnate leaves

Petals absent

4 white sepals

5 smooth leaflets

Flowers in clusters of three

Herbaceous vine

Many stamens

Pedicels used to climb

Lespedeza cuneata - Fabaceae - non-native invasive

V-shaped sprawls

Woody

Deep taproot

Zygomorohic

Trifoliate leaves

Pueraria montana - Fabaceae - non-native invasive

Solanum ptychanthum - Solanaceae - native

Pycnanthemum muticum - Lamiaceae - native

Perilla frutescens - Lamiaceae - non-native invasive

Opposite serrated leaves

Square stem

White/purple flowers

5 corolla lobes

Hairy calyx tube of 5

Raceme and unbranched

Desmodium paniculatum - Fabaceae - native

Alternate compound pinnate leaves - trifoliate

Zygomorphic flowers with banner, keel, and wings

Pink-purple flowers

Sticky fruit

Xanthium strumarium - Asteraceae - non-native invasive

Flowers have hooks for dispersal

Alternate 3-lobed serrated leaves

Raceme inflorescence with males at top and females at bottom

Allelopathy

Chamaechrista fasciculata - Fabaceae - native

Zygomatic yellow pentamerous flowers with pedicle

8-10 stamen

Pinnate compound alternate leaves

Legume fruits

Silphium perfoliatum - Asteraceae - native

Opposite perfoliate leaves (fused at bottom)

Sandpaper leaves

square stem

head inflorescence with yellow flowers

Passiflora incarnata - native

Big green fruit

Alternate, deeply 3-lobed leaves

Modified axillary bud = axillary tendrils for climbing

Ruellia strepens - native

Purple connate tubed flowers

Opposite entire leaves

Square stem

Ruellia humilis - native

Sessile leaves

Narrow calyx lobes

Purple connate tubed flowers

Persicaria virginiana - Polygonaceae - native

Alternate leaves

Ocrea present

Sheath is hairy and fringed

Flowers are spaced out

4 greenish white sepals

Raceme inflorescence

Acalypha rhomboidea - Euphorbiaceae - native,

Alternate diamond leaves

Small herbaceous

Lonicera japonica - non-native invasive

Opposite oblong leaves

Lania

New leaves are lobed but entire at maturity

Zygomorphic paired flowers with 2 lobed corollas

Berry fruits

Lonicera maackii - non-native invasive

Shrub

Opposite leaves

Berry fruits

Stachys tenuifolia, Lamiaceae, native,

Euphorbia nutans, Euphorbiaceae, native

Foeniculum vulgare, Apiaceae, non-native naturalized

Senna obtusifolia, Fabaceae, non-native invasive,

Ipomoea lacunosa, Convolvulaceae, native,

Lobelia siphilitica, native,

Microstegium vimineum, Poaceae, non-native invasive

. Euonymus fortunei, non-native invasive,

Hedera helix, non-native, invasive

Polymnia canadensis, Asteraceae, native

Daucus carota, Apiaceae, non-native naturalized

Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Asteraceae, native

Solidago altissima, Asteraceae, native,

Buddleja davidii, non-native invasive,

Verbascum thapsus, non-native invasive

Coronilla varia, Fabaceae, non native naturalized

Phytolacca americana, native

Bidens bipinnata, Asteraceae, native

Commelina communis, non-native naturalized

Vernonia gigantea, Asteraceae, native

Verbesina alternifolia, Asteraceae, native,

Glechoma hederacea, Lamiaceae, non-native naturalized

Melothria pendula, native,

Chelone glabra, native,

Collinsonia canadensis, Lamiaceae, native,

Scirpus polyphyllus, Cyperaceae, native,

Leersia oryzoides, Poaceae, native

Pilea pumila, Urticaceae, native,

Ambrosia trifida, Asteraceae, native,

Bidens frondosa, Asteraceae, native

Solanum carolinense, Solanaceae, native

Gaura biennis, Onagraceae, native,

Verbesina virginica, Asteraceae, native,

Chasmanthium latifolium, Poaceae, native

Helianthus tuberosus, Asteraceae, native,

Oenothera biennis, Onagraceae, native,

Juncus effusus, Juncaceae, native

Scirpus cyperinus, Cyperaceae, native,

Fatoua villosa, non-native naturalized

Persicaria longiseta, Polygonaceae, non-native invasive,

Senna hebecarpa, Fabaceae, native

Phyllanthus urinaria, non-native naturalized,

Taxodium distichum, Cupressaceae, native

Saururus cernuus, native

Sagittaria platyphylla, native

Juniperus virginiana, Cupressaceae, native

Pinus strobus, Pinaceae, native

Tsuga canadensis, Pinaceae, native

Thuja occidentalis, Cupressaceae, native

Ginkgo biloba, non-native

Dumortiera hirsuta, native

Conocephalum salebrosum, native

Fissidens fontanus, Fissidentaceae, native

Fissidens bryoides, Fissidentaceae, native

Adiantum pedatum, Pteridaceae, native

Polystichum acrostichoides, Dryopteridaceae, native

Cystopteris protrusa, Dryopteridaceae, native

Liriope spicata, non-native invasive

Huperzia lucidula, Lycopodiaceae, native

Sceptridium dissectum, native

Pleopeltis michauxiana, native