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Black-masked Racer (Coluber constrictor ssp. latrunculus)Observer
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About 4 ft long, distinguishing black mask along side of the head covering the eye. It is an adult female.
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Tainturier's Chervil (Chaerophyllum tainturieri)Observer
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ID using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Plant is pubescent towards the base of the stem. Plant has glabrous and ribbed fruits.
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Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia)Observer
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ID found using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Small tree with red funnel shaped petals and long stamens. Large leaves with pinnate venation.
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Beaked Cornsalad (Valerianella radiata)Observer
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ID using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Very small white flowers in umbel like configuration. Leaves are opposite and connect to the nodes.
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Texas Toadflax (Nuttallanthus texanus)Observer
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ID found using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Basal leaves with a terminal inflorescence. Purple petals that have two upper and 3 lower lobes.
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Bulbous Buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus)Observer
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ID found using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Yellow flower with a corm like base. Carpels are easily distinguishable because they are green.
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Little Barley (Hordeum pusillum)Observer
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ID using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Spikelets with awns of lemmas. Plant was small and probably regrowing from recent cut.
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Crimson Clover (Trifolium incarnatum)Observer
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ID using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Oblong inflorescence with red flowers. Lobed leaves similar to white clover.
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Annual Fleabane (Erigeron annuus)Observer
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ID using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. white thin ray flowers with yellow heads full of disk flowers.
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Pennsylvania Blackberry (Rubus pensilvanicus)Observer
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ID using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Leaves with 3 leaflets that are toothed and pinnately veined. Large white 5 merous flowers.
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German Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla)Observer
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ID using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Yellow and white flower with white ray flowers and yellow disk flowers. The flower also smells really good.
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White Clover (Trifolium repens)Observer
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ID found using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Plant creeping along the ground with white inflorescence that harbors the individual flowers in a round shape.
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Hairy Vetch (Vicia villosa)Observer
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ID found using Smith's Key to t he Flora of Arkansas. Violet flowers with some white on the tips. Plants are creeping over many other plants, and have leaves about every cm on the stems.
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Inland Sedge (Carex interior)Observer
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ID using Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Long and skinny stem harboring terminal inflorescence. In this case all were fruits (achenes).
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Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)Observer
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ID found using Smiths key to the Flora of Arkansas. Perfect flowers, inferior ovary, long stamens and carpels, vine with opposite and entire leaves. Flowers yellow or white.
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Strawberries, Cinquefoils, and Allies (Tribe Potentilleae)Observer
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Plant ID using Smiths key to the Flora of Arkansas. Teeth on leaf margins, creeping plant, aggregate of achenes with red receptacles.
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Field Madder (Sherardia arvensis)Observer
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Plant ID determined from Smiths Key to the Flora of Arkansas. 4 merous petals, and pale lilac to purple petals with calyx lobes present. Whorled leaves with hairs that are rough to the touch.
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Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense)Observer
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ID found using Smith's Key to the Flora of Arkansas. Small white flowers with opposite leaves. Stamens stick out past the corolla lobes. Thin tree/large shrub.
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Red Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum)Observer
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ID found on US wildflowers.com found in lawn at my house. Found in St. Francis County.
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Tiny Bluet (Houstonia pusilla)Observer
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ID using US wildflowers.com. Found in lawn at my house in St. Francis County.
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Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)Observer
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4194 SFC 311, Forrest City AR, 72335. In lawn among many other Dandelion. Came to ID conclusion using Arkansas weed ID database.