Plant ID - Week 3 Flashcards
Centaurea montana
Asteraceae
Very Hardy
Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant
Leaves: sheathing / lanceolate
Entire or rarely lobed / Pinnate venation
Flower: Head - Blue with red to blue centers and black-edged bracts below
Imperata cylindrica ‘Red Baron’
Poaceae
Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial, Poales (grass-like)
Green leaves with blood-red tips.
Leaf: Alternate, Basal, Linear, Sheathing
Inflorescence Type:Floriferous, Panicle-like, Spikelet
Gypsophila paniculata
Caryophyllaceae
Very hardy
Flowering cut plant, Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant
Leaves: opposite, linear - swollen nodes (Lanceolate)
Inflorescence: Panicle like Cyme - tiny white to pink flowers
Fragrant / Scented
Lythrum salicaria
Lythraceae
Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant, Weed
Very hardy
Leaves: mostly opposite (less commonly in whorls of three)
Sessile, Lanceolate, Pubescent
Flowers: Raceme - Pink-magenta, spikes
Wetland - bogs
Marchantia polymorpha
Marchantiaceae
Herbaceous perennial Weed
Not very hardy
Ground covering weed in moist shade
On media surface of overwatered potted plants
Thick, flattened, lobed - Spatulate
No flowers / Has Spores
Lonicera x brownii ‘Dropmore Scarlet’
Caprifoliaceae
Vine or climber, Semi-evergreen
Very hardy
Leaves: Elliptic, Ovate, Rounded, Truncate
Flowers: trumpet-shaped, scarlet - clustered
Floriferous, Spike-like
Hydrangea anomola petiolaris
Saxifragaceae
Shrub - deciduous, Vine or climber
Very hardy
Leaf: Elliptic
Flower: Floriferous, Panicle-like, Cyme
Winter ID: bark shaggy, large buds, scale scar yellow; flowers persist.
Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Vitaceae
Vine or climber
Very hardy
Leaves: Ovate, Bases: Cordate, Truncate
Margins:Dentate, Palmately lobed
Fruit: berries blue-black, persist after leaf drop.
Pyracantha
Pyracantha coccinea
Rosaceae
Broadleaf evergreen
Leaves: lanceolate, dark green and shiny
Stem covered in large thorns
Inflorescence: corymb - white florets
Fruit: Pome: orange-red, berry-like in clusters.
Weigela
Weigela florida
Caprifoliaceae
Shrub - deciduous
Very hardy
Leaves: opposite, elliptic -slightly obovate - wavy, serrated margins
Flowers: Red funnel-shaped - Cyme
Winter ID: branching arched; buds opposite; new growth has line a hairs between nodes.
Philadelphus coronarius
Hydrangeaceae
Shrub - deciduous
Very hardy
Leaves: opposite, Heavily veined, Elliptic, Ovate
Rough with small white hairs (Tomentose), wavy margins,(Denate)
Flowers: 4 white petals (Raceme)
Winter ID: fruit small brown capsules - persist in winter; leaf scar heart-shaped
Buddleja davidii
Scrophulariaceae
Invasive plant, Shrub - deciduous - Tall perennial
Leaves: opposite - pubescent
Lanceolate, grey-green on top, white below
Flowers: Thyrse - White, Blue, Pink, Purple - Fragrant
Green Velvet Boxwood
Buxus sinica var. insularis ‘Green Velvet’
Buxaceae
Broadleaf evergreen
Dense, compact, mounded
Leaves opposite, obovate
Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Filifera Aurea’
Cupressaceae
Conifer
Weeping
Leaf: Scale-like (Rhomboidal)
Long cord-like golden branchlets
Cotinus coggygria
Anacardiaceae
Shrub - deciduous
Leaves: alternate, green to dark purple (Obovate, Ovate)
Flowers: Panicles, dark purple
Winter ID: buds pointed; lenticels and bundle scars (3) prominent.
Dense Yew
Taxus X media ‘Densiformis’
Taxaceae
Conifer
Leaves: pointy, flat, (Linear) Spiraled
Fruit: Red drupe - berry like
Tamarix ramosissima
Tamaricaceae
Conifer, Invasive plant
Sems: Reddish
Leaves: Scale-like foliage
Flowers: Raceme - dense and feathery, 5 pink petals
Hibiscus syriacus
Malvaceae
Shrub - deciduous / Vase shaped
Leaves: ovate, 3 major lobes towards apex (Deneate)
Flowers: large, trumpet-shaped
Winter ID: branches whitish, buds alternate with small hairs.
Ligustrum amurense
Oleaceae
Shrub - deciduous, Semi-evergreen
Very hardy
Leaves: opposite, elliptic
Flowers: small, white, unpleasantly scented, cyme panicles like
Berries small, dark purple to black (poisonous).
