Observations by dmcooperberg

2 foot tall herbaceous plant. Flowers present with lower flowers having dried and parts fallen off. Flowers arranged in a raceme. Flowers with 6 tepals, 6 stamens and one sigma, radial symmetry. All stamens the same length. 3 carpels present. Leaves all basal and grass like.

1.5 foot tall herbaceous plant. Leaves are palmately lobed with five or seven deeply cut lobes. Basal and opposite leaves. Five rose-purple petals and ten stamens. 5 sepals. Single pistil and superior ovary.

25 foot tree. Leaves are opposite and palmately compound, with 7 leaflets. Old flowers present in erect panicles with fruit ripening. Fruit is a green spiked capsule. Flowers bilaterally symmetrical with 8 stamens, 1 carpel and a superior ovary. Flowers have 5 united petals. 5 sepals present.

50 foot tall tree. Bark is light gray with deep furrows. Fruit is a flat samara, about .5 inches long and wide. Simple leaves with teeth on the edges, 3 to 4 inches long. Asymmetrical at leaf base. Leaves alternate. No flowers present.

2 foot tall herbaceous plant. Leaves are twice pinnately compound. Horizontal racemes of around to 20 pendent flowers present. Outer petals are bright pink, while the inner petals are white. The flowers resemble the traditional hear shape with a droplet at the bottom. Flowers show bisymmetric symmetry. 2 tiny sepals present and 4 petals. 2 stamens and 1 pistil.

15 foot tall tree. Simple opposite leaves with margins entire. Pinnate leaf venation with secondary veins arcuate. When leaves are slowly pulled apart, elongated vascular strands are visible. 4 large white/pink bracts are present. Inflorescence located within the bracts with many small 4 petaled flowers.

15 foot tree. Trunk divided into many branches from the bottom. Bark smooth. Leaves alternate. Flowers purple with bilateral symmetry and banner inside lateral wings. 2 fused petals, 5 petals total. 10 stamens and one carpel. Ovary inferior.

15 foot tall tree. Bark white with darker round but lobed sections appearing to be peeled away. Some round fruits persisting. Green immature inflorescences developing, small and round. Leaves alternate, simple, just emerging and appearing tooth-lobed. Folliar stipules present.

50 foot tall tree. Opposite palmately compound leaves with 5 leaflets. Deeply furrowed bark in flat plates. Flowers yellow and bilaterally symmetrical, with 8 stamens, one carpel and a superior ovary. 4 petals on flowers.