Plants

Question 1

Swamp Milkweed

Answer 1

Asclepias: OBL, bright flowers, opposite leaves, flowers grow in bunches, milky sap and fruits sort of almond shaped

Question 2

Crooked-stem Aster

Answer 2

Aster (Symphyotrichum): bluish white flowers with stems somewhat at an angle

Question 3

New England Aster

Answer 3

Aster (Symphyotrichum): bluish purple flowers with small thin leaves

Question 4

Boneset

Answer 4

Eupatorium: FACW, white flowers in large heads sort of like hydrangeas, similar to queen anns lace or baby breath, opp leaves slightly toothedwith blunt point, ‘pierced’ leaves at base

Question 5

Spotted Touch-Me-Not

Answer 5

Impatiens: FACW, very recognizable orange spotted flowers with pea-like shape

Question 6

Moneywort

Answer 6

Lysimachia: FACW, low groundcovering plant with roundish leaves, flowers grow in the axils, in the primrose family.

Question 7

Purple Loosestrife

Answer 7

Lythrum: opposite leaves, very recognizable purple racemes

Question 8

Common Reed

Answer 8

Phragmites:

Question 9

Lance-leaved Goldenrod

Answer 9

Solidago: long pointy leaves

Question 10

Slender-leaved Goldenrod

Answer 10

Solidago: somewhat thin, flat leaves

Question 11

Rough-stemmed Goldenrod

Answer 11

Solidago: much wider, shorter leaves

Question 12

Meadowsweet

Answer 12

Spirea: big white racemes, few ash-like leaves

Question 13

Poison ivy

Answer 13

Toxicodendron

Question 14

Blue Vervain

Answer 14

Verbena: kind of like lavender and loosestrife combined

Question 15

Nodding Bur Marigold

Answer 15

Bidens: kind of sunflower-like, opp leaves, leaves do NOT have stalks, head bows when fruiting

Question 16

Swamp Beggar Ticks

Answer 16

Bidens: smaller flowers than Nodding Bur Marigold, leaves coarsely toothed, but smaller and wider, Leaves Stalked, heads erect when fruiting

Question 17

Beggar Ticks

Answer 17

Bidens: leaves more arrow shaped, flowers have 5-9 leaflike bracts

Question 18

Bladder Sedge

Answer 18

Carex: has triangular stems in clumps, 1 stalked male spike and 1-3 females (smaller spikes) with 5-15 bottle-shaped sacs (spiky looking)

Question 19

Fringed Sedge

Answer 19

Carex: grasslike, has dense clumps of triangular stems, leaves have smooth leaf sheaths, female spikes droop (fluffy hairy looking like ‘fringe’) while males stay erect (superior)

Question 20

Lurid Sedge

Answer 20

Carex: (poofy female spikes) “with beaked egg-shaped sacs”, and one very thin and long male at terminal

Question 21

Bristlebract Sedge

Answer 21

Carex: has all spikes up by terminal-very small, long thin linear leaf expands all the way up to top of terminal, veined sheaths

Question 22

Three-way Sedge

Answer 22

Dulichium: pointy leaves as well as palm frond like spikes-males and females look the same, fruit nutlets flattened

Question 23

Broom Sedge

Answer 23

Carex: flowers shaped kind of like broom heads, flowers all grow near terminal

Question 24

Soft Rush

Answer 24

Juncus: has dense clusters of tussocks (weedy seedy thing growing every way), no apparent leaves at all

Question 25

Spike Rush

Answer 25

Eleocharis: very spiky grass-like with flowers only at terminal, grows in like big clumps of grass

Question 26

Rice Cutgrass

Answer 26

Leersia: (squiggly stem) with multiple tapering leaves branching off (at tips of branches), long thin linear leaf with margin going down middle that tends to bend near top

Question 27

Reed Canary Grass

Answer 27

Phalaris: one long (wheat-like) flower at terminal- flower is compressed early on but opens (into wheat-like look) after fertilization

Question 28

Wool Grass

Answer 28

Scirpus: actually a sedge-has spikes with multiple budlike flowers on each branching off terminal, linear leaves droop at top, dense cluster of basal leaves present

Question 29

Arrowhead

Answer 29

(cards-tarot cards-astrology-Sagittarius) | = Sagittaria

Question 30

Maidenhair Fern

Answer 30

"maiden Diane" = Adiantum