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
25b. Corolla cylindrical or urn-shape, the stamens not projecting --26.
26a. Filaments hairy (Blueberry) --27.
26b. Filaments glabrous (Bilberry) --32.
27a. Low bushy shrubs, usually less than 5 dm. and never more than 1 m.
high --28.
27b. Tall erect shrubs, 1-4 m. high --31.
28a. Foliage pubescent =Blueberry, Vaccinium canadense.=
28b. Foliage glabrous --29.
29a. Leaves pale-green and glaucous, entire or nearly so
=Blueberry, Vaccinium vacillans.=
29b. Leaves bright-green, distinctly serrulate --30.
30a. Fruit blue =Blueberry, Vaccinium pennsylvanicum.=
30b. Fruit black
=Blueberry, Vaccinium pennsylvanicum var. nigrum.=
31a. Leaves downy beneath; fruit black
=Blueberry, Vaccinium atrococcum.=
31b. Leaves smooth or minutely pubescent beneath; fruit blue
=Blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum.=
32a. Full-grown leaves less than 2.5 cm. long; low much-branched
shrubs, mostly less than 5 dm. high --33.
32b. Full-grown leaves more than 2.5 cm. long; shrubs usually a
meter high or more --34.
33a. Leaves entire; petals usually 4.
=Bilberry, Vaccinium uliginosum.=
33b. Leaves finely serrulate; petals 5
=Bilberry, Vaccinium caespitosum.=
34a. Leaves serrulate, green beneath, acute; corolla globular
=Bilberry, Vaccinium membranaceum.=
34b. Leaves entire, pale beneath, obtuse; corolla ovoid
=Bilberry, Vaccinium ovalifolium.=
PRIMULACEAE, the Primrose Family
Herbs, with alternate or opposite simple leaves and regular flowers;
petals more or less united; stamens attached one in front of each petal;
ovary 1-celled with 1 style.
1a. Leaves all basal; flowers on leafless stalks --2.
1b. Stem-leaves present --5.
2a. Flowers nodding, the petals reflexed (3-6 dm. high; flowers
showy, white or pink, in spring)
=Shooting Star, Dodecatheon meadia.=
2b. Flowers erect or spreading; petals not reflexed --3.
3a. Corolla not longer than the calyx; flowers small and inconspicuous
(1 dm. high; flowers white or pink, spring)
=Androsace, Androsace occidentalis.=
3b. Corolla conspicuous, much longer than the calyx (flowers pink or
purple, summer) (Primrose) --4.
4a. Leaves white-mealy beneath (1-4 dm. high)
=Primrose, Primula farinosa.=
4b. Leaves green beneath (2 dm. high or less)
=Primrose, Primula mistassinica.=
5a. All the stem-leaves in one whorl just below the flower-cluster --6.
5b. Stem-leaves several or many, scattered over the stem --7.
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