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Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf attachment: opposite
Leaf shape: elliptical oval shape, pointed
Leaf Margin: smooth, not toothed
Leaf venation: palm line
Color: speckled green yellow
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American Elm (Ulmus americana)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf attachment: alternate
Leaf shape: crown-vase shaped, elliptical
Leaf Margin: toothed
Leaf venation: palm lines
Color: green, but turn yellow
Gray bark
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Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf attachment: two needle-like leaves per node
Leaf shape: needle-like
Color: green
Fruit characteristics: a fruit has a lip-like hole on the surface. It has a very unique shape. It is green.
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Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf shape: needle-like, one needle-like leaf per node
Color: dark green
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Red Maple (Acer rubrum)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf attachment: opposite
Leaf shape: rounded and narrow, palmately lobed
Leaf Margin: irregularly toothed
Leaf venation: palm line
Color: turn red, some yellow, orange
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Kentucky Coffeetree (Gymnocladus dioicus)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf attachment: opposite
Leaf shape: ovate, compound
Leaf Margin: smooth
Leaf venation: palm line
Color: dark green, yellow
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Oakleaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: huge shrub, small tree
Leaf attachment: whorled
Leaf shape: lobed, broad, large, compound
Leaf Margin: both lobed & toothed
Leaf venation: Palm line
Color: blue green
Flower form: a number of 4-petal- brown flowers are clustered in one branch
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Golden Rain Tree (Koelreuteria paniculata)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf attachment: opposite
Leaf shape: compound, toothed, lobed
Leaf Margin: toothed & lobes
Leaf venation: palm lines
Color: dark green
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Smokebush (Cotinus coggygria)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf attachment: whorled (three leaves per node)
Leaf shape: round, obovate
Leaf Margin: slightly toothed
Leaf venation: Palm line
Color: dark green, brown
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Basswood (Tilia americana)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: tree
Leaf attachment: alternate & opposite
Leaf shape: compound, broad and round shape
Leaf Margin: coarsely toothed
Leaf venation: Palm line
Color: green & yellow
thick bark, tough, gray
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Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: Tree
Leaf attachment:
Leaf shape: simple, palmately lobed
Leaf per node: one leaf per node along the stem
Color: green
Leaf venation: palm line
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Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: Tree
Leaf attachment: opposite
Leaf shape: compound
Leaf form: needle-like
Leaf arrangement: one needle-like leaf per node
Color: green
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Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: large shrub or small tree
Leaf attachment: opposite
Leaf shape: compound
Leaf Margin: toothed
Leaf Venation: palm line
Fruit characteristic: tiny small berries red, hairy, sticky, clustered densely in a circular shape
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Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: shrub
Leaf attachment: opposite
Leaf shape: compound
Leaf margin: toothed
Leaf venation: palm line
Fruit characteristic: tiny berries, red, hairy, oval clusters at branch tips
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Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: wildflowers
Flower form: yellow disk flower which looks like an yolk of an egg & white ray flowers surrounding it
Leaf attachment: sheathing
Leaf shape: linear, simple
Leaf margin: entire
Texture of flower: soft and a little bit thick
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Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life Form: wild flower
Leaf attachment: Opposite
Leaf shape: simple
Flower form& Color: Yellow disk flower, white ray flowers
Leaf Margin: entire
Size: very small, tiny. Flower form and color are very similar with Erigerson annuus. However, Oxeye daisy is much smaller than Erigeron annuus.
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Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: wildflowers
Leaf attachment: alternate
Leaf Shape: simple
Flower form: ray flower, heads of tiny, magenta, pea-like flower
Leaf Margin: entire
Color of flower: light pink, purple
Texture: very Downy and fuzzy
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Annual and Daisy Fleabanes (Section Phalacroloma)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: wild flower
Leaf attachment: clasping, alternate
Leaf Shape: simple
Flower form: both disk and ray flowers
Leaf margin: slightly toothed
Flower color: yellow disk flower & white ray flowers
Leaf venation: Palm line
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Yellow Foxtail (Setaria pumila)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Life form: grass,
Leaf attachment: sheathing
Leaf shape: linear,
Leaf margin: smooth blade
Color: yellow green(leaf), brown
Lead venation: palm line
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Creeping Juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
It has narrow leaves which are needle like.
Leaf attachment is opposite and more than 2 leaves are in one location.
The color is dark green.
A branch is dark brown color.
No fruits and no flowers
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Leaf attachment: opposite.
Has broad leaves,
simple & entire leaves.
It has sharp leaves and very small white flowers.
The leaves are large and smooth, a little bit shiny and fuzzy. Leaves are about 5 to 20 inches long. Leaves are dark yellow green.
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Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Leaf Attachment: alternate.
Narrow leaves with scale like.
Leaves without a wide blade.
Compound & entire leaves
It has several fruits which look like berries. Flowers have star shapes and they are purple color. Berries are egg shape and round. Leaves are dark green and 1-4 inches long.
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Woodsorrels (Genus Oxalis)Observer
seoyounglee001Description
Leaf attachment: more than 2 leaves are in one location.
leaf margin: smooth blade
simple leaves.
The flowers are bright yellow and it's about 0.5 inches. The flower has five petals. It has leaves which are similar with clover's leaves.
