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Subsection CoccineaeObserver
mallenDescription
Considered to be a 'red oak', with leaves pinnately lobed. Dark gray bark with terminal buds slightly hairy. Leaf petioles are greater than 1cm and the leaves have anywhere from 5-11 lobes. The lower branches are spreading and the acorn cup covering is 1/3 to 1/2 of the entire nut.
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Ontario Aster (Symphyotrichum ontarionis)Observer
mallenDescription
A member of the Asteraceae family, this flowering plant is a perennial with basal and lower leaves tapering to the base. The phyllary tips are flattened and the rays are white and are fewer than the number of disk flowers (what is seen as the yellow part of the flower). The leaf surfaces are uniformly pubescent.
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Slippery Elm (Ulmus rubra)Observer
mallenDescription
Commonly known as the "red or slippery elm." Leaves are doubly serrated and lanceolate to obovate measuring 7-16cm and have a sand-papery feeling. Buds are obtuse and red-tomentose.
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American Beak Grass (Diarrhena americana)Observer
mallenDescription
Member of the Poaceace family, perennial grass, bright green blades. Spikelets laterally compressed, pedicelled, and the glumes shorter than the lemnas.
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Knotweeds, Smartweeds, and Waterpeppers (Genus Persicaria)Observer
mallenDescription
Annual herbaceous plant with pink flowers in dense spikes or heads that are distinct from the vegetative portion of the plannt, leaves alternately arranged. Sometimes known as, "oriental lady's thumb."
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Watermeals (Genus Wolffia)Observer
mallenDescription
Tiny annual aquatic plants that float on the water's surface. This plant body lacks roots and is shaped elliptic or globose.
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Least Duckweed (Lemna minuta)Observer
mallenDescription
Tiny annual aquatic plant that floats on the water's surface. The plant body is divided into segments or fronts with a single root.
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American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)Observer
mallenDescription
Deciduous tree, buds ovoid, many-scaled, greenish-red, and glaborous. Leaves palmately veined and lobed. Female reproductive structures in globose clusters. Commonly called "sweetgum."
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Tapered Rush (Juncus acuminatus)Observer
mallenDescription
A part of the rush family with terminal inflorescences and light to dark brown flowers in heads of 5-50. Leaves and stems are generally thicker over 1.5mm.
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Swamp Smartweed (Persicaria hydropiperoides)Observer
mallenDescription
Perennial plant with flowers in dense spikes or heads that are distinct from the vegetative portion of the plant. Leaves are alternately arranged and it is typically fruiting and flowering from June to October.
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Woolgrass (Scirpus cyperinus)Observer
mallenDescription
Perennial sedge with several hundred drooping spikelets that are in clusters. Scales are pale brown, the spikelets have a woolly appearance, and theplant fruits by mid to late July. Commonly called, "wool-grass."
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Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum)Observer
mallenDescription
Known as the "mist flower," a member of the Asteraceae family. Herbaceous plant with blue to purple colored corollas, leaves that are opposite, and flowers range from 35-70 per head on a conic receptacle.
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Common Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)Observer
mallenDescription
Herb annual with alternate toothed leaves; bisexual flowers; one sepal enlarged; fruit is a capsule. Flowers are yellow-orange with a spotted red color in the center and there is a forward curved spur. Average height is about 4 feet tall.
