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Winged Elm (Ulmus alata)Observer
mslevinDescription
Plant a small tree, about 2 m tall, corky wings on stems, leaves small rounded and scabrous above. Possibly cultivated.
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
mslevinDescription
Plant a small tree, ~1.5 m tall, thin central trunk (young tree). Leaves doubly serrate and lanceolate, 9-15 veins on each side of midrib, some of which fork before reaching margin, lower surface with tufts of hair in vein axils. Slim chance it has escape cultivation because it is along a walking path but the area is very overgrown/wild and the plant is young (not cultivated).
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Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)Observer
mslevinDescription
Slanted tree overhanging trail, ~6 m tall, terminal buds for next years flowers present, leaves red.
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Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)Observer
mslevinDescription
Shrub ~1 m tall, most leaves gone, many spherical fruit made up of many nutlets.
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Common Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)Observer
mslevinDescription
Tree ~8 m tall, no fruit present, leaves large, elliptical, and alternate.
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Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)Observer
mslevinDescription
~1.5 m tall, leaves finely toothed, bark dark and smooth with noticeable lenticels.
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Royal Palm (Roystonea regia)Observer
mslevinDescription
Tall tree, ~10-12 m tall, leaves with classic "pinnately compound" palm leaf that is actually simple.
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Areca Palm (Dypsis lutescens)Observer
mslevinDescription
Tall palm tree, ~7.5 m tall, fruit an orange drupe on long panicle. Leaves with classic "pinnately compound" shape, but actually simple.
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Mexican Plumeria (Plumeria rubra)Observer
mslevinDescription
Small spreading tree, ~6 m tall, flowers purple, bark gray, stems with laticifers. Leaves clustered at end of branches and flowers also terminal, range from purple to white.
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Japanese Honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)Observer
mslevinDescription
Coiled around Betulaceae sp. about 3 m off ground, liana with simple glabrous opposite leaves and blueish-black berries. Invasive.
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Possumhaw (Ilex decidua)Observer
mslevinDescription
Large shrub, ~3 m tall, many bright red fruit, leaves obovate.
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Red Maple (Acer rubrum)Observer
mslevinDescription
Simple leaves, sinuses V-shaped, +/- 3 lobes, lower surface white, minute hairs below, plant ~1.5 m tall.
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American Trumpet Vine (Campsis radicans)Observer
mslevinDescription
Liana wrapped around a Quercus sp. snag ~2.5 m above ground. Leaves opposite, pinnately compound, fruit a long thick capsule. Acuminate leaves at apex, margin toothed.
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Black Willow (Salix nigra)Observer
mslevinDescription
Approximately 8-10 m tall overhanging water-filled roadside ditch, leaves lanceolate and green above and below with minute teeth in margin.
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Chinaberry (Melia azedarach)Observer
mslevinDescription
Tree ~7.5 m tall with many white/yellow fruit, leaves alternate and bipinnately compound and dark green. Invasive.
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Groundsel Tree (Baccharis halimifolia)Observer
mslevinDescription
Very visible/showy/feathery pappus on achene fruit. Shrub ~2.5 m tall.
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Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda)Observer
mslevinDescription
Very tall, ~18 m, with mostly 3 needles per fascicle and many cones on tree and underneath on ground.
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American Holly (Ilex opaca)Observer
mslevinDescription
Bark light gray, tree approximately 2.5 m tall, leaves with spiny teeth, bright red fruit
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Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)Observer
mslevinDescription
Medium/tall tree ~5.5 m tall, large, heteroblastic leaves. Adaxial leaf surface very scabrous.
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Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)Observer
mslevinDescription
Tall tree, approximately 13 m, high number of fruit. Leaves scale-like, fruit small, globose cones.
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Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense)Observer
mslevinDescription
Invasive species, probably escaped cultivation long ago. Shrub ~3 m tall, leaves opposite, fruit small, globose.
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Supplejack (Berchemia scandens)Observer
mslevinDescription
Thick green support liana wrapped around tree. Leaves with prominent pinnate venation. Liana pulled down to reach fruiting portion of specimen ~5 m above ground.
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Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)Observer
mslevinDescription
Tree approximately 13 m tall, many fruit, leaves green above and rusty tomentose below, fruit ovoid and large aggregate of follicles. Possibly cultivated (properties built in 1930s on NWR, records indeterminate)
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Hawthorns (Genus Crataegus)Observer
mslevinDescription
Small tree approx. 4 m tall, bark dark gray with brown splotches, some moss, thorns >1 cm long, venation running into teeth and not sinuses, leaf base cuneate to decurrent
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Eastern Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)Observer
mslevinDescription
Sample taken from approx. 2.5 m above ground, plant wrapped around Quercus sp. Trifoliate; fruiting.
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Elms (Genus Ulmus)Observer
mslevinDescription
Bark brown and blocky/fissured. Tree approx. 10 m tall. Upper leaf surface very scabrous, audibly so...
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Water Locust (Gleditsia aquatica)Observer
mslevinDescription
Tall tree about 9 m, bark dark brown, covered in moss, bark with grayish to red thorns, leaves bipinnately compound
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Section MelioidesObserver
mslevinDescription
Tree about 2.5 m tall, bark with moss and unknown liana traveling up trunk, leaves pinnately compound, leaflets tend to be a bit clustered to terminal end of stems.
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Roundleaf Greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia)Observer
mslevinDescription
Vine on ground, leaves simple, alternate, rounded, green on both ab- and adaxial surface, no prickles on leaf margin. ~0.25 m off ground.