features Flashcards

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Ginko

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deciduous, obdeltoid, thick shoots with short shoots, mature large seeds that are plum like
foulsmell when overripe

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Pacific Yew

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fruit like sticky

leaves: prom midvein, needlelike, revolute with convex lower surface
seed: bluish seed set in bright red cup

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Monkey puzzle

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Leaves: triangle base
seedcone: globular, held erect, surorounded by and attatched to conescales

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Umbrella-pine

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rubbery leaves, grooved on both sides, whorled in clusters of 10-15
seedcones: oblong, 8-12cm, fam shaped, loosley attatched

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Yellow-cedar

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droopy crown,
leaves: all 4 rows similar, ad smell upon crushing
Seedcones: globular, 4-6 mushroom/chickpea woody scales

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Western redcedar

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Leaves: in 4 rows along twig,both needle and scale leaves
seadcones: ovoid, 8-10 cone scales
Twigs: sitffer than yellowcedar, no vegitative buds

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Rocky mountain juniper

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leaces: 5-12mm long, shine dark green
Seedcones: berry-like, fleshy, bright to dark blue

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Common juniper

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spikey

leaves: no scale leaves, needles 12-20mm, sharp
seedcones: berry-like, fleshy, bluish-black

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Incense Cedar

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Leaves: 3-12mm, whorled in 4s, side leaves folded, up and low are flattened,
seedcones: 6 scales, 2 becoming enlarged and spread at maturity
Twigs: flattened, droppng sprays

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Japenese-cedar

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Leaves: Awl shaped, tips curve inward
Seedcones: globular, 12-18mm, 20-30 scales at teeth tip

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Chinese-fir

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Leaves: 4-6cm long, lanceolate and sharp, bright green and glossy above
Seecones:wooden roses

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Dawn redwood

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DISTINCTIVLY BUTRESSED
leaves: decidious branchlets, 30mm long, 2-ranked, opposite
Twigs: opposit in 2 ranks
Seedcones: square, 20-25mm, scales opposite pairs

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Coast redwood

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Seedcones: globular, 2-3cm, wrinkled on outside, 14-20 scales
less concave under leaf than yew

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Sierria rewood

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scale-like (3-5mm), or awl or lance shaped (12mm), Lance shaped leaves diverge from twigs=rigid, sharp
Seedcones: ovoid-obling, 5-10cm, 24-40 scales wrinkled and pitted
BIG EGG

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Bald-cypress

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Leaves: needle-like, flat, sharp, spiral but appear in 2 ranks, deciduous
Seedcones: globular and somewhat irregular

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Whitebark pine

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leaves: in 5s, stout and stiff, no teeth
twigs: smootha nd gray
seedcoens: closed, globular to ovoid, 5-8cm long, stalkless, scales thick, tough, open slighlty when mature, 1 large wingless seed

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Limber pine

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leaves: 5’s, 4-9 cm, stout and stiff, not teeth
seedcones: cylyndrical to narrowly ovoid, 8-20cm, scales thick at tip, spoonshaped, cones open on tree (1 wingless seed)

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Sugar pine

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5’s, 5-10cm, fine, toothed

seedcones:BIGGEST, 25-65 cm long

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Western white pne

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5’s, 5-1cm, fine, toothed

Seedcones: Cylyndrical, 10-30cm long, yellowish to green to light brown

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Eastern white pine

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5’s, 5-15cm, fine, toothed

seedcones: slender, 8-20cm, narrower than wester white pine

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21
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Jack pine

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2’s, -4cm, spread apart

Seadcones: asymmetrical, straight or curved inward, 3-7cm, usually forward ointing, no prickle on scalese

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Lodegpole pine

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2’s, 3-7cm, usually strongly twisted, not spread

Seedcones: ovoid, asymmetrical, 3-6cm long, right angles to branch or point back

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Coulter pine

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3’s, 15-30cm

Seedcones: large, 25-35cm, weigh up to 2.3kg, thick scales, terminat in large claw

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European black pine

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2’s, 8-15cm, sotut and flexible

Seedcones:, ovoid, 5-10cm, stalkless cones scales thick and apophyses raised, umbo bear small prickle

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Pondersa Pine

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3’s, 12-25cm, dark yellow-green

Seedcones: cylindrical to narrow ovoid, 7-15cm, shiny reddish-brown, scales hve sharp prickle

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Scots pine

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2’s, 4-8cm

Seedcones: conical to ovoid, asymmetrical, 2.5-7cm, apophyses raised and 4 sided, no prickle

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soft vs hard

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s: 5’s, decid, umbo at tip, no prickle
h: 2-3, stay, umbo at centre, prickle

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Norway Spruce

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cone scale all edges, longer than other spruces

twigs: creamygreen
eaves: 15224mm, long strong sharp point

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Engelmann Spruce

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Small cones, sclaes are toothed
leaves: 15-25mm, up curve at tip
Twigs:grey to light brown

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White Spruce

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round cone scale, cylyndrical, 3-6cm
Twig: light grey green
leaves: 15-22mm,, stiff pointed, not sharp

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Black Spruce

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EVERYTHING SMALL compared to white
LEaves: 7-15mm, blunt point, straigh
Twigs: dark orange, yellow/brown
Seedcones: smallest, ovoid to globular, 2-3cm

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Sitka Spruce

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scales are toothed but rounded
Leaves: 20-30mm, flat, straight,sharp
twig:yellowbron, hairless, resinous buds

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Amabilis fir

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leaves: 20-30mm, tip notched, shiny dark green, horz spread
Twigs: round buds, resinous and dark
Seedcones: ovoid-conical, 9-14cm, scales wide as they long, bracts sloping shoulders and pointed tip

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Balsam fir

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Leaves: 15-25mm, tip round/nothced, 2-ranked
Twigs: buts oviod and resinouus
Seedcones: barrel shaped, 4-10cm, bracts rounded shoulders and needle tip

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Grand fir

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Leaves: 20-35mm, 2-ranked, orange smell crushed
twigs: slender, buds broad ovoid, purple
Seedcones: cynlydrical-narrowly ovoid, blunt tip, bract pointed shoulders slope in

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Subalpine fir

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leaves: 25-40m, tip rounded or nothced
Twigs: stout and hairy, buds ovoid, resinous
Seedcones: barrel, 4-10cm, bracts shrter than scales, level shoulders and tip

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Noble fir

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Leaves:20-30mm, thick, flat lower branch
Twigs: reddishbrown, buds small globular
Seedcones: cylindrical, 11-18cm, big bract long tip that longer than scales

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Douglas fir

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Leaves:20-30mm, yellowgreen, point but not sharp
twigs: flexible, greenbrown, buds 10mm, red point!
Seedcones: ovoid, 6-9cm, pendulous, broad papery, 3 forked bract longer than scales

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Western Hemlock

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LEaves: 5-20mm, irregular space, 2 rankes, few short needles
Twogs: pubescnet, bds round and small
Seedcones: SMALL, ovoid, yellowbrown, smll stalk

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Mountain Hemlock

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Leaves:20-30mm, rounded x-section,
twigs: redbrown, pubescent, buds ovoid 5mm
Seedcones:oblong cylindrical, 3-8cm, stalkless,scales fan shape thick broad, flex back to release

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Club moss

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strobolis clear, distinct change from veg to strob

alternating sporophyll

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Spike moss

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Strob grown interspresed with veg

sporophylle opposite arrangement

43
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Horse tails

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black leaves

identifiable

44
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Sphagnum moss

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peat moss
head grows @ top with long stem and stem leaves
FINSIH

45
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leafy liverworts

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leaves, look like moss but have 3 whorls (many look like have 2=3rd against stem)

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thalloid liverworts

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flat, no leaves

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Hornworts

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long horn projection, FINISH

48
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foloise

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flat wiht 2 sides
uper layer and lower layer
dye fo rwools

49
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fruticose

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hair lichen
tree beard
subalpine branches

50
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crustose

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flat, no lower surface
cant peel in one go
dust (pwder)
adhere to surface

51
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basidiomycota

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classic mushroom

52
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ascomycota

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sac fungi
ascospores in distinctive sac
cup shaped fruiting bodies
or mold