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Spreading Chervil (Chaerophyllum procumbens)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous annual. Leaves are alternate, compound, and pinnatifid. The flowers are a compound umbel with 5 bracts. This plant has 5 merous flowers with white petals. The fruit is more than twice as long than wide. The stem of the plant is slightly pubescent.
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Bulbous Buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous perennial. The leaves are alternate and lobed with dentate leaf margins and pinnate venation. The flowers are yellow with five petals and many stamens.
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American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A deciduous tree with a slight pyramid shape. Leaves are simple and palmate with 5 lobes. The fruit is spherical in shape and is covered in spikes. The fruit type is a capsule.
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Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A coniferous tree. The leaves are simple, scale- like with serrated margins. The specimen is a female tree with berry fruit, blue in color with waxy coating.
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American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A deciduous tree with exfoliating bark. The leaves are alternate, simple, and palmately veined and coarsely toothed. The fruit is a cluster of achenes borne on a spherical head.
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Bluejacket (Tradescantia ohiensis)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous plant. Leaves are alternate with parallel venation. Flowers are blue with 3 petals.
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Rose Vervain (Glandularia canadensis)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous perennial. Leaves are opposite and deeply lobed. Flowers are lavender and have a tubular corolla.
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Fire Pink (Silene virginica)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous perennial. The flower has five red, narrow, and notched petals. The stem is pubescent. Leaves are opposite.
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Curled Dock (Rumex crispus)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous perennial plant with a basal rosette of leaves with curved edges. The inflorescence is a panicle of racemes. The flower is a greenish yellow with 3 sepals.
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Lyreleaf Sage (Salvia lyrata)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
An herbaceous plant. The flowers arise from a basal rosette of leaves which are deeply lobed. The stem is square and pubescent. Flowers have bilateral symmetry and are a soft purple.
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Common Dewberry (Rubus flagellaris)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
Blackberry, stem trails along the ground for many feet with prickles and leaves that are trifoliate with serrated edges. The flower is white with five petals and many stamens.
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Post Oak (Quercus stellata)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A deciduous oak tree. Leaves are alternate with palmate venation. The base of leaf is acute. New twig growth is pubescent.
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American Hard Pines (Section Trifoliae)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A young, evergreen, conifer. The bark on stems is rough. The leaves are chiefly in fascicles of two. The leaf arrangement is whorled. The crown is pyramid shaped.
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Woolly Ragwort (Packera dubia)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous perennial with mostly basal leaves. Heads with yellow ray flowers and ligules. Phyllaries are equal length. The simple leaves on the stem are alternate
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Irises (Genus Iris)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous perennial. The plant has two equitant leaves. Flower stalks extend the leaves with large, showy, purple, bilateral flowers with 3 sepals and 3 petals.
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Mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous perennial plant. The leaves are borne from one stem with long petioles and glabrous leaves that are deeply lobed. The flower arises between the two petioles, with 6 white petals.
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Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A deciduous flowering small tree. The leaves are palmately compound with serrate margins. The red flowers are showy and are in terminal racemes.
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Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A deciduous, flowering dogwood tree. The leaves are opposite, simple, and ovate with entire margins. The flowers consist of a terminal cluster surrounded by four large white bracts.
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Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A young voluntary Redbud tree with alternate, simple, heart shaped leaves and showy papilionaceous flowers that are magenta pink. The bark is dark and smooth.
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Poet's Narcissus (Narcissus poeticus)Observer
jessicarichardsonDescription
A herbaceous plant. The leaves are basal. The symmetry of the flower is radial with six petal like tepals. Tepals are white with a yellow corona.
