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PBIO 3190 Plant Species
The scientfic, and common name, picture, and unique characteristic that makes them different from others
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Plant Sciences
Undergraduate 4
08/28/2013

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Common Name: Ragweed

Scientific Name: Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Feature: simple deeply lobed leaves, elongated clusters

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Common Name- Chicory

Scientific Name- Chicorium intybus

Feature- square tipped fringed rays, sessile

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Common Name- Canada Goldenrod

Scientific Name- Solidago canadensis

Feature- alternate phyllotaxy, lancolet leaves, yellow rays

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Common Name- wingstem

Scientific Name- Verbesina alternifolia

Feature- globe like head, leafy stem, few rays

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Common Name- Ironweed

Scientific Name- Vernonia altissima

Feature- scale like bracts, bristles in receptacle

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Scientific Name- Antennaria plantaginifolia

Common Name- Pussy toes

Features- colony forming, basal leaves, fuzzy flower heads, hairy and fuzzy leaves

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Scientific Name- Arctium minus

Common Name- Burdock

Features- heart shaped leaves, prickly pink to lavender flower heads, rayless

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Scientific Name- Centaurea nigrescens

Common Name- Black Knapweed

Features- blackish bracts, heads terminate branches, flowers are pinkish purple, white in the middle

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Scientific Name- Cirsium arvense

Common Name- Field Thistle

Features- toothed weakly spiny leaves, weak spine tips on the bracts, pinkish purple flowers with a whiteish middle

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Scientific Name- Erigeron annuus

Common Name- fleabane

Features- white feathery skinny rays with a yellow head, lancolate leaves

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Scientific Name- Eupatorium fistulosum

Common Name- Joe Pyweed

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Scientific Name- Eupatorium rugosum

Common Name- white snake root

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 Scientific Name- Euthamia graminifolia

Common Name- grass leaved goldenrod

Features- grass like leaves, yellow heads

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Scientific Name- Helianthus microcephalus

Common Name- Small headed sunflower

Features- looks like a small sunflower with out a blakish center, but instead brown

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Scientific Name- Hieracium gronovii

Common Name- Queendevil

Features- yellow square tipped fringed rays. branches terminating in flowers

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Scientific Name- Athyrium pycnocarpon

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Scientific Name- Asplenium platyeuron

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Scientific Name- Cystopteris bulbifera

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Scientific Name- Polystichum acrostichoides

Common Name- Christmas Fern

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Scientific Name- Equisetum arvense

Common Name- Horsetail Fern

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Scientific Name- Botrychium virginianum

Common Name- Rattlesnake Fern

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Scientific Name- Pellaea glabella

Common Name- Cliffbrake

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Scientific Name- Thelypteris hexagonoptera

Common Name- Beech Fern

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Scientific Name- Selaginella apoda

Common Name- Spikemoss

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Scientific Name- Sanguinaria canadensis

Common Name- Bloodroot

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Scientific Name- Oxalis grandis

Common Name- Woodsorrel

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Scientific Name- Impatiens capensis

Common Name- Jewelweed

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Scientific Name- Impatiens pallida

Common Name- Pale Jewelweed

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Scientific Name- Polygonum virginianum

Common Name- Jumpseed

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