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Red-headed Pine Sawfly (Neodiprion lecontei)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Small larvae eating on a Pinus virginiana.
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American Water-Willow (Justicia americana)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Resembles grass from a distance. Small purple 2 lipped flowers on peduncle longer than subtending petioles.
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Lettuce, Chicory, Dandelion and Salsify Tribe (Tribe Cichorieae)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Small perennial herb with basal and cauline leaves. Aster with ray flowers only, orange. Phyllaries in a single series.
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Dwarf Cinquefoil (Potentilla canadensis)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family: Rosaceae
Yellow flower at 1st node with more stamens than petals.
Small palmately compound leaves with 5-7 leaflets.
Flower solitary and at the first node.
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Stiff Dogwood (Cornus foemina)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Place
Pitman Creek, Pulaski county Kentucky. First pulloff on side of the creek on Strawberry Rd off Clay Hill Rd. (Google, OSM)Description
Twigs and leaves glaborous.
White four petaled flower with 1 pistol and 4 stamens.
Opposite leaves and acumate. Twigs maroon and pith tan.
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Summer Bluet (Houstonia purpurea)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Corolla tubular in terminal cymes.
Basal leaves absent while in flower.
Leaves cordate at base with 3-5 main veins.
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Cucumber Root (Medeola virginiana)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Monocot
Family: Liliaceae
Perennial herb with bulb.
Cauline leaves in whorls.
Tepals < 1 cm
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Eastern Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Pinnately compound leaves. 15-23 leaflets with the end leaflet reduced or absent.
Fruits orbicular.
Bark dark brown, deeply furrowed.
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Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Leaves 5-lobed. Regularly serrate. Sinus rounded.
Buds blunt and unstalked.
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Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Leaves palmately compound.
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Shumard's Oak (Quercus shumardii)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Leafs with toothed and pinnatley lobed.
Deep sinuses.
Acorn covering 1/3-1/2 the nut.
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Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Bipinnately compound.
Trithorns
Legume.
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Purple Crownvetch (Securigera varia)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Place
Pulaski county Ky off of Strawberry Rd. About a quarter mile after turning from Clay hill Rd around an abandoned house and field. (Google, OSM)Description
Family Fabaceae
Common name: Crown-vetch
Herb
Pink flowers in long peduncled umbles.
Odd pinnately compound leaves with over 11 leaflets.
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Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family Rubiaceae
Common name- partridge berry
White funnelform paired flowers on short peduncles. 4 hairy petals.
Leaves opposite.
Small vine.
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Hairy Phlox (Phlox amoena)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Place
Daniel Boone National Forest, Parkers Lake, KY, US. About 1.5 miles off the side of the road across from a pulloff on Brauer Rd off 27 in McCreary Co. (Google, OSM)Description
Family Polemoniaceae
Authority: Sims
Common name: Hairy Phlox
Purple salviform flower.
Short style.
Pubescent calyx
Opposite leaves.
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Bindweed Family (Family Convolvulaceae)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family Solanaceae
Authority: Vilm.
Common name: Garden petunia.
Large funnelform corolla.
Entire pubescent leaves.
Alternate leaves.
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Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family Ericaceae
Common name: Mountain laurel
Bush with campanulate white flowers.
Alternate leaves
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Yellow Star Grass (Hypoxis hirsuta)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family Hypoxidaceae
Authority: Coville
Common name: Yellow star-grass
Pubescent foliage.
Basal parallel veined linear leaves.
Small yellow flower.
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Multiflora Rose (Rosa multiflora)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family Rosaceae
Authority: Thumb
Common name: Multiflora rose
Compound leaves of 7-9 leaflets. White flowers
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Cream Violet (Viola striata)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family Violaceae
Authority: Aiton
Common name: cream violet
Small cream colored flower.
Cordate/deltoid leaves.
Lanciniately toothed stipules.
There was a little green bug on one flower with his head inside of it. On another flower a small spider was inside of it.
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Rue Anemone (Thalictrum thalictroides)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family Ranunculaceae
Authority: Spach
Common name: Rue-anemone
Small white flower
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Kentucky Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea)Observer
mitchell_hughes40Description
Family Fabaceae
Authority: Rudd
Common name: Yellowwood
Tree with compound leaves and pea like flowers.
