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
2a. Flowers in clusters of 2-4, about 3 cm. wide (spring)
=Celandine Poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum.=
2b. Flowers in umbels of 3-8, about 1.5 cm. wide
=Celandine, Chelidonium majus.=
FUMARIACEAE, the Fumitory Family
Herbs with watery juice, compound or dissected leaves, and irregular
flowers; sepals 2, small; petals 4, in two pairs, and one or both of the
outer pair spurred at the base; stamens 6.
1a. Both outer petals spurred or sack-like at the base --2.
1b. One outer petal spurred or sack-like at the base --4.
2a. A climbing vine with flowers in panicles (white or pinkish
flowers in summer) =Climbing Fumitory, Adlumia fungosa.=
2b. Low herbs (2-4 cm.) with basal leaves and white or pinkish
flowers in racemes (early spring) --3.
3a. Spurs of the corolla triangular, divergent
=Dutchman's Breeches, Dicentra cucullaria.=
3b. Spurs of the corolla short and rounded
=Squirrel Corn, Dicentra canadensis.=
4a. Flowers about 5 mm. long, pink-purple tipped with red (3-8 dm.
high; summer) =Fumitory, Fumaria officinalis.=
4b. Flowers 10 mm. long or more, yellow, at least at the tip (2-6
dm. high) (Corydalis) --5.
5a. Flowers yellow throughout (spring) =Corydalis, Corydalis aurea.=
5b. Flowers pink, tipped with yellow (summer).
=Corydalis, Corydalis sempervirens.=
CRUCIFERAE, the Mustard Family
Herbs, with alternate, frequently lobed or dissected leaves, and regular
flowers, usually in racemes; sepals and petals each 4, stamens 6, 4 long
and 2 short (or rarely 2 only), ovary 1.
1a. Petals yellow or yellowish --2.
1b. Petals white, pink, or purple, never yellow --29.
2a. Leaves simple, entire or dentate, never lobed --3.
2b. Leaves deeply lobed or compound (the bracteal leaves, at or
near the flower-clusters, may be simple and unlobed) --10.
3a. Leaves clasping the stem --4.
3b. Leaves not clasping at base --6.
4a. Clasping base and apex of leaf obtuse or rounded; pod very long
and slender (3-8 dm. high; summer)
=Hare's Ear, Conringia orientalis.=
4b. Clasping base and apex of leaf acute; pod obovoid (3-7 dm.
high; early summer) (False Flax) --5.
5a. Stem and leaves glabrous =False Flax, Camelina sativa.=
5b. Leaves and usually the stem pubescent
=False Flax, Camelina microcarpa.=
6a. Flowers about 2 mm. wide (1-3 dm. high; flowers in summer) --7.
6b. Flowers 5 mm. wide or more (2-6 dm. high; flowers in summer)
--8.
7a. Leaves about twice as long as broad, widest near or below the middle
=Whitlow Grass, Draba nemorosa.=
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