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Apple (Malus domestica)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Medium size tree; fruit globose, flesh smooth, greater than 4 cm thick; thorns absent; leaves serrate, pubescent below; flowers white with 5 petals.
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Amur Honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Plant a shrub; leaves simple, deciduous, pubescent on both surfaces; branches hollow; twigs pubescent; peduncles shorter than to about equaling petioles; styles elongate; flowers white or yellowish, paired in leaf axis; corolla usually 10mm or more and 2-lipped; fruit a red berry
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Azure Bluet (Houstonia caerulea)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Perennial herb; stems erect; flowers solitary,4 petals, corolla blue with yellow center; leaves opposite.
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Virginia Pine (Pinus virginiana)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Medium size gymnosperm; leaves needlelike in clusters of two, distinctly twisted; seed cones brown, armed with stout prickles 2-4 mm; bark brownish.
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American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Large tree; bark multi colored; leaves alternate, simple, palmately veined and lobed; fruit a multiple of achenes in a globose head; flowers unisexual, regular, in globose heads.
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Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Deciduous tree; about 30 feet tall; leaves simple, cordate; bright redish purple flowers bloom in clusters of 4-10; fruit a brown legume.
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White Fawnlily (Erythronium albidum)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Leaves basal, simple, parallel-veined, with mottling; perianth white; stigmas separate and recurved; flowering plant has two basal leaves; non-flowering plant has one leaf.
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Blue Phlox (Phlox divaricata)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Leaves lance-ovate, less than 5 times as long as wide; styles short, about the same length as ovary and stigma; anther tips not visible at top of corolla tube; flower light purple with 5 fused petals.
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Dwarf Larkspur (Delphinium tricorne)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Stem softly herbaceous; flowers blue-violate, the lower petal not bifid; follicles spreading; pistils 3-5; petals 4, the 2 upper spurred.
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Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia)Observer
beckybloomfieldDescription
Herbaceous perennial; leaves alternate, simple, cordate, stipules conspicuous; flowers purple, solitary, arising from cluster of basal leaves.
