Habit viny, funnelform corolla, leaves deeply pinnately dissected, corolla red.
Stigmatic disk present, corona bearing hoods and horns, red petals with yellow corona.
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Herb
Not prickly or sticky
Berries green, purple or black
Mature berries dropping with pedicel, calyx lobes strongly reflexed in fruit, stone cells 0-2
LNat 15
3 green sepals
3 white petals
flat pistils that form the round green center
6 yellow stamens
small oval achene fruit
parallel leaf venation
less than an inch size flowers
raceme inflorescence
star shaped flowers
Rhizome roots that are submerged in water
long lance shaped leaves
long thick petioles
male and female flowers are separate
LNat 13
green and yellowish flowers
male and female flowers on the same plant
entire leaf margin
alternate leaf arrangment
weedy
no aroma
flower size is less than an inch
yellow/white/green colored flowers
oblong leaves
no milky sap in stems
heavily branched at stems
erect
green fruits that are divided into 3 parts
invasive
LNat12
solitary white-ish flowers
inflated bag like calyx
calyx becomes red when mature, green when immature
bell shaped flowers
simple leaves
fused sepals
five petals
LNAat11
1-3ft tall
rosette basal leaves
stalk is hairless
herbaceous
crisp margins
panicle of racemes inflorescence
perfect flower
pistillate flower
3 inner sepals and 3 outer sepals
6 stamens
3 styles
each flower has a drooping pedicel
LNat 10
compound leaves with three leaflets
small white pea shaped flowers
adventitious roots
hairless leaves
usually less than 30cm long
produce individual leaflets
finely toothed margins
flowers arranged in dense globular clusters
5 sepals fused in a tube
LNat9
flowers are on separate stalks
each flower has 6 tepals
white tepals
basal bulblets
gets to about 10 inches tall
bulb rootstock
no odor
umbel inflorescence
long pedicels
6 anthers that are bright yellow
LNat8
short rhizome
densely packed spikelets
leafy sedge
serrate margins
broad flattened flower spikes
1 stamen
5-8 grass like leaves
triangular stems
compound umbel inflorescence
LNat8
short rhizome
densely packed spikelets
leafy sedge
serrate margins
broad flattened flower spikes
1 stamen
5-8 grass like leaves
triangular stems
compound umbel inflorescence
LNat7
tap roots
blue-purple flower color
2-lipped corolla: upper lip: 2-lobed, lower lip: 3-lobed
4 stamens: 2 short, 2 tall
capsule fruit
decumbent stems
opposite leaves
cyme inflorescence
5-angled calyx
invasive
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Corolla radially symmetrical, petals fused, stem trailing
Stem twining
Leaf base cordate
Corolla purple
Sepals equal in length
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Shrub
Heads discoid, dioecious shrubs
Leaves alternate and elliptic, toothed at maturity
Heads pedunculate
Cluster of hairs grouped into panicle inflorescence
(FA20) Found in a pine forest along a trail. Leaves approximately 15 centimeters long, with 4-5 evenly spaced lobes from base to apex. Pinnate venation. Bud-like structures at nodes. Very small hairs present on stem and leaves.
(FA19) Found in a forest, about a meter from a trail. About 1 meter tall. Armored stem with downward curving prickles and lacking noticeable hairs. Leaves pinnately trifoliately compound with serrate margins and pinnate venation.
(FA18) Found growing out of water between a bog and a forest. Inflorescence looks like a two parted fruit, with a large, brown, cylindrical/corn-dog shaped bottom, and a small, skinny white tip. Green and brown stems and leaves. Leaves are very long, narrow, and with parallel venation. Leaf base appears to be sheathing.
(FA17) Found in a forest as a medium sized shrub. No noticeable armor or hairs. Leaves are large, simple with entire margins, petiolate, pinnate venation, arranged alternately. Fruits are found solitary at a node, either red or black in color, and appears to be a drupe when crushed.
(FA16) Found in a forest. Leaves are green to red, palmately 5 lobed, with slightly toothed margins around the whole perimeter, palmate venation, and with long, red petioles. Tough, globose shaped fruit of loculicidal capsules.
(FA15) Found in a forest as a large shrub. Leaves appeared waxy, are simple, and oblanceolate shaped. Pinnate venation and entire margins, but the tips of some leaves are slightly toothed. Fruit arranged along large stem in groups of 1-3. Fruit is blueish-gray in color and appears to be a drupe when crushed.
(FA14) Found in a pine forest as a small herbaceous plant. No notable odor. Leaves simple with parallel venation. Inflorescence is an umbel with only a few flowers. Flowers have 6 sepals, 6 white petals, 6 erect stamen with yellow anthers, and a superior ovary.
(FA13) Found in a forest as an herbaceous plant. Tall, discoid inflorescences with an involucre of bracts, arranged in a corymb. Discoid inflorescence contains numerous, small, pale violet or pale blue in color, 5-merous flowers with long styles. 5 Corollas arranged in a tubular shape. Leaves are closer to ground and are absent towards top of stem. Leaves simple with slightly toothed/dentate margins, arranged opposite (one leaf missing in picture, but petiole is present).
(FA12) Found as a woody vine in a pine forest. Leaves appear to be simple with entire margins, arranged alternately and with palmate venation. Leaves also have short petioles and are cordately shaped. Tendrils are thick and individual tendrils are both straight at some points and spiral at others. Lacks prickles or other armor, possesses single-seeded red-orange berries arranged in groups coming from a single branched node.
(FA11) Found in a forest. Plant is a small herb with laticifers containing milky latex. Few leaves present on the plant. Leaves are entirely green with narrowly-elliptic shape, simple, entire margin, and arranged alternately. Cyathium inflorescence clearly present.
(FA10) Found in a pine forest as an herbaceous plant. Leaves ovately shaped, simple with slightly toothed margins. Flowers are spaced evenly along inflorescence axis and are zygomorphic. Sepals are triangular at the base, several millimeters long, and are skinny. Corolla is violet in color with a white patch near the middle.
(FA9) Found in a pine forest. Plant is a small shrub. Leaves with rounded base and wider towards middle. Leaves simple and entire, arranged opposite. 4 yellow petals and 4 sepals. Numerous stamen with 3 carpels/styles which are most noticeable in last picture.