The Plants of Michigan: Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the StateGleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan)
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The Plants of Michigan: Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State
Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan)
Plants -- Michigan
14b. Leaflets linear to oblong, serrate to nearly entire, not
incised (6-15 dm. high) --15.
15a. Leaflets entire, or with a few low remote teeth
=Cowbane, Oxypolis rigidior.=
15b. Leaflets finely but sharply serrate
=Water Parsnip, Sium cicutaefolium.=
16a. Leaves principally basal, decompound; flowers in early spring
(1-2 dm. high) =Harbinger of Spring, Erigenia bulbosa.=
16b. Leaves principally on the stem --17.
17a. Leaves palmately or ternately once-compound --18.
17b. Leaves 2-3 times compound or decompound --24.
18a. Flowers short-pedicelled, crowded in head-like umbels,
greenish; ovary bristly (4-9 dm. high; early summer) (Black
Snakeroot) --19.
18b. Flowers in open umbels, white --22.
19a. Styles short, not projecting beyond the bristles of the mature
fruit --20.
19b. Styles long, projecting beyond the bristles of the fruit, and
recurved --21.
20a. Staminate flowers on pedicels 3-4 mm. long, equaling or barely
exceeding the fruit =Black Snakeroot, Sanicula trifoliata.=
20b. Staminate flowers short-pedicelled, concealed among the fruits
=Black Snakeroot, Sanicula canadensis.=
21a. Fruit short-stalked, 4 mm. long or less
=Black Snakeroot, Sanicula gregaria.=
21b. Fruit sessile, 6-7 mm. long
=Black Snakeroot, Sanicula marilandica.=
22a. Umbel unsymmetrical, its branches irregular in length; plant
slender (3-8 dm. tall; early summer)
=Honewort, Cryptotaenia canadensis.=
22b. Umbel symmetrical with regular branches; plants tall and stout
--23.
23a. Stem and leaves very pubescent (10-25 dm. high; summer)
=Cow Parsnip, Heracleum lanatum.=
23b. Stem and leaves glabrous or nearly so (5-15 dm. high; early summer)
=Masterwort, Imperatoria ostruthium.=
24a. Ovary and fruit bristly (4-10 dm. high) --25.
24b. Ovary and fruit smooth or winged, never bristly --27.
25a. Umbels loose, open, few-flowered; woodland plants blooming in
spring (Sweet Cicely) --26.
25b. Umbels densely flowered; weedy plants blooming from summer to fall
=Wild Carrot, Daucus carota.=
26a. Stem villous-pubescent =Sweet Cicely, Osmorhiza claytoni.=
26b. Stem glabrous except at the joints
=Sweet Cicely, Osmorhiza longistylis.=
27a. Leaflets merely serrate (flowers in summer) --28.
27b. Leaflets coarsely incised, so that the leaf appears dissected --30.
28a. Umbel densely pubescent (8-15 dm. high)
=Angelica, Angelica villosa.=
28b. Umbel smooth --29.
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