Observations by martinconroy

Time Observed: 1:15 P.M.

Growth Form: Fern, maybe grass

Common Name:

Leaves grow off the stock that comes from the ground.

Leaf venation is pinnate and leaves do not have any teeth or lobes.

There appears to be flowers budding towards the top of the stock.

No fruit was observed.

Time Observed: 12:49 P.M.

Growth Form: Tree

Common Name:

Leaves are simple and have a pinnate venation.

Leaves do not have teeth or lobes.

Some leaves beginning to change colors.

Bark on branches is brown.

Bark is rough.

Many red berries located on branch next to leaves.

No flowers were observed on this tree.

Time Observed: 1:23 P.M.

Growth Form: Tree(Japanese Knotweed is not the tree, but is what is found at the bottom.)

Common Name: Japanese Knotweed

Leaves are simple and have a pinnate venation.

Attached to brown twig that shoots off of tree.

Twigs were very fragile and skinny.

Most leaves are still green, but some have become yellow and are starting to fall to the ground.

No fruit or flowers found on this tree.

Time Observed: 1:48 P.M.

Growth Form: Tree

Common Name:

Bark is a light brown, mostly grey color.

Five distinct branches coming from root in the ground.

Leaves are pinnate and have small teeth on the edges.

No fruit or flowers were observed.

Time Observed: 12:32 P.M.

Growth Form: Shrub

Common Name: Glossy Buckthorn

Leaves are starting to become brown and fall off.

Venation s pinnate.

The leaf shape is simple and the leaves branch off a central branch.

Fruit was not observed on this exact shrub, but Glossy Buckthorns usually have fruit.

Time Observed: 12:26 P.M.

Growth Form: Tree

Common Name:

Leaf does have lobes, however there are not any teeth.

Venation is netted palmate.

Leaves are on twig which shoots of the tree, bark is brown. Twig is also brown.

Most of leaves are yellow in color, most have lost their green coloring.

No fruit or flowers were observed.

Time Observed: 12:47 P.M.

Common Name: Drummond's Rockcress

Growth Form: Flower

The flower petal color is between purple and blue.

Only one portion of the plant has flowered, many other parts are still budding.

There are four petals in the flower.

No leaves are visible, only flower buds are visible.

No fruit is visible.

Time Observed: 12:50

Growth Form: Tree

Leaves are simple with rounded teeth along the outside blade of the leaf.

Leaves are attached to twig and are compounded. There are two leaves per node.

Leaf venation is pinnate.

There was no flowers or fruit visible on this specimen.

Time Observed: 12:45 P.M.

Common Name:

Growth Form: Shrub

Leaves are simple and are smooth on the outside blade of the leaf.

Venation is pinnate.

Plant is spread more horizontally on the ground then it is vertically.

No flowers or fruit on this plant.

Time Observed: 1:26 P.M.

Common Name: Black Oak

Growth Form: Tree

The leaf blade is simple and has lobes and teeth along the edge of the leaf blade.

Leaves starting to fall off of tree, most of them are still left on though.

Many holes in the leaves from insects eating them.

Acorns are found on the tree.

Time Observed: 1:05 P.M.

Common Name: Staghorn Sumac

Growth Form: Tree

The leaf blade is a compound, more than one leaflet.

The leaves shoot off the leave stalks.

Brown twig color, grey in some places.

The color of the leaves vary from green to red. (Red colored leaves are probably leaves that are about to fall off.)

No flowers or fruit observed on this tree, but Staghorn Sumacs can contain both flowers and fruit.

Time Observed: 1:20 P.M.

Common Name: Eastern Red Cedar

Growth Form: Tree (Small and Conical)

The leaves found on this tree are scale like.

The leaves overlap and wrap around the branch very tightly.

No fruit or flowers found on this particular tree.

Time Collected: 1 P.M.

Common Name: Common Dandelion

Life Form: Flower (Weed)

Found commonly in meadows and fields.

This specimen was not yellow as in the picture, but rather white, which is the fruit called, cypselae.

The leaves are simple and only grow on the base of the plant.

The white plume of the species is made up of fine bristles.