What
Boxelder (Acer negundo)Observer
skonchanDescription
•Sapindaceae•
•Growth habit: tree•
•Habitat:This species prefers bright sunlight. It often grows on flood plains and other disturbed areas with ample water supply, such as riparian habitats.•
•Unlike most maples,Acer negundo has pinnately compound leaves that usually have three to seven leaflets•
•fully dioecious and both a male and female tree are needed for either to reproduce.•
What
Coontie (Zamia integrifolia)Observer
skonchanDescription
•Zamiaceae••Growth Habit:Small cycad•Habitat:Zamia integrifolia inhabits a variety of habitats with well-drained sands or sandy loam soils. It prefers filtered sunlight to partial shade. •Zamia integrifolia is dioecious, having male or female plants.•This is a low-growing plant, with a trunk that grows to 3–25 cm high, but is often subterranean.
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Shining Sumac (Rhus copallinum)Observer
skonchanDescription
•Anacardiaceae• Growth Habit: deciduous tree • habitat:Shining sumac is often cultivated, where it is well-suited to natural and informal landscapes because it has underground runners which spread to provide dense, shrubby cover for birds and wildlife• yellow flowers• bark is thin and easily damaged
What
Common Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum)Observer
skonchanDescription
Dennstaedtiaceae• Growth habit: fern •Habitat: readily colonized disturbed areas • large, roughly triangular fronds are produced singly, arising upwards from an underground rhizome• sori protected by unrolled pinnule margins and indusium
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Spurge Nettle (Cnidoscolus stimulosus)Observer
skonchanDescription
Euphorbiaceae• growth habit: herb •habitat: disturbed sites, very commonly on edges of pine flatlands/hammock areas• If touched, inflicts pain with stinging hairs• white 5 marous flowers
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Peppervine (Nekemias arborea)Observer
skonchanDescription
Vitaceae• growth habit: vine •habitat: forest/natural areas and disturbed zones• berries dry or slightly fleshy, black, bluish, or greenish• climbing with few tendrils, trailing, or erect shrub
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False Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa)Observer
skonchanDescription
Fabaceae• Growth Habit: shrub • Habitat: lots of forest areas. Often cultivated for ornamentals and some wild plants are escaped domestic cultivations• The leaves are made up of many hairy, oval-shaped, spine-tipped leaflets.• The inflorescence is a spike-shaped raceme of many flowers, each with a single purple petal and ten protruding stamens with yellow anthers.
What
Ebony Spleenwort (Asplenium platyneuron)Observer
skonchanDescription
Aspleniaceae• growth Habit: fern • Habitat: very wide range, can inhabit soils and rocks, mostly disturbed sites• pinnate fronds•The fronds are dimorphic