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
29a. Leaf-segments broadly ovate (8-15 dm. high)
=Angelica, Angelica atropurpurea.=
29b. Leaf-segments lanceolate (8-15 dm. high)
=Water Hemlock, Cicuta maculata.=
29c. Leaf-segments linear (4-10 dm. high)
=Water Hemlock, Cicuta bulbifera.=
30a. Principal branches of the umbel 2-5; fruit linear-oblong;
woodland plants blooming in spring (2-4 dm. high)
=Chervil, Chaerophyllum procumbens.=
30b. Principal branches of the umbel 7 or more; fruit ovate to
broadly elliptical (summer) --31.
31a. Native plants, growing in swamps (5-15 dm. high)
=Hemlock Parsley, Conioselinum chinense.=
31b. Introduced plants, in waste places and along roads --32.
32a. Stems conspicuously spotted with purple (5-15 dm. high)
=Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum.=
32b. Stems not spotted with purple (2-5 dm. high)
=Caraway, Carum carvi.=
CORNACEAE, the Dogwood Family
Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with alternate leaves and small flowers in
rather crowded rounded or flattened clusters; sepals 4, minute; petals
and stamens each 4; ovary inferior, ripening into a berry. In one genus
the flowers are minute and greenish, with 5 sepals and petals minute or
none.
1a. Leaves alternate --2.
1b. Leaves opposite --3.
2a. Flowers white, conspicuous, in flattened clusters (shrubs 2-4
m. high; flowers in late spring)
=Dogwood, Cornus alternifolia.=
2b. Flowers greenish, inconspicuous, in small axillary clusters
(tree; flowers in spring) =Sour Gum, Nyssa sylvatica.=
3a. Flower clusters small and dense, surrounded by a showy involucre of
4 bracts, resembling a corolla of 4 petals --4.
3b. Flowers in open flattened clusters, without petal-like involucre
(shrubs 1-4 m. high; late spring) --5.
4a. Herbaceous, 3 dm. high or less (flowers in late spring)
=Dwarf Dogwood, Cornus canadensis.=
4b. Tall shrub or tree (flowers in late spring)
=Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida.=
5a. Leaves distinctly pubescent beneath with woolly or spreading hairs
--6.
5b. Leaves smooth beneath, or pubescent with short appressed hairs --9.
6a. Leaves rough above; fruit white
=Dogwood, Cornus asperifolia.=
6b. Leaves smooth or finely soft-hairy above --7.
7a. Leaves at least twice as long as wide; branches brownish or purplish
--8.
7b. Leaves less than twice as long as wide; branches greenish; fruit
blue =Dogwood, Cornus circinata.=
8a. Branches purplish; fruit blue =Dogwood, Cornus amomum.=
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