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
65a. Leaflets thick and firm, the petioles and pedicels pubescent with
spreading or ascending hairs; fruit subglobose, the achenes
embedded in pits on its surface
=Strawberry, Fragaria virginiana.=
65b. Leaflets thin, the petioles and pedicels nearly glabrous or with
appressed hairs; fruit conic, the achenes on its surface
=Wood Strawberry, Fragaria americana.=
66a. Leaves pinnate with numerous leaflets --67.
66b. Stem-leaves with 3-5 leaflets --72.
67a. Leaflets laciniate or deeply lobed (flowers pink or purple, early
summer) --68.
67b. Leaflets merely toothed --69.
68a. Stem-leaves few, small and opposite (2-4 dm. tall)
=Purple Avens, Geum triflorum.=
68b. Stem-leaves large and alternate (5-20 dm. tall)
=Queen of the Prairie, Filipendula rubra.=
69a. Individual flowers small, not exceeding 6 mm. across, in large
clusters or spikes --70.
69b. Individual flowers more than 10 mm. wide, in few-flowered clusters
(Cinquefoil) --71.
70a. Flowers in dense spikes (5-15 dm. high; late summer)
=Burnet, Sanguisorba canadensis.=
70b. Flowers in panicles =Sorbaria, Sorbaria sorbifolia.=
71a. Flowers red or purple (3-6 dm. high; summer)
=Marsh Cinquefoil, Potentilla palustris.=
71b. Flowers white (5-10 dm. high; early summer)
=Cinquefoil, Potentilla arguta.=
72a. Pistils 5 (5-10 dm. high; flowers white or pink, early summer)
--73.
72b. Pistils 10, in a ring (flowers pink or purple) --68b.
72c. Pistils numerous, in a head or close group --74.
73a. Stipules linear or subulate, 5-8 mm. long
=Bowman's Root, Gillenia trifoliata.=
73b. Stipules leaf-like, 10-25 mm. long, serrate
=American Ipecac, Gillenia stipulata.=
74a. Flowers red or purple --75.
74b. Flowers white --76.
75a. Leaflets sharply and irregularly toothed or lobed; petals erect,
narrowed at the base (3-9 dm. high; early summer)
=Purple Avens, Geum rivale.=
75b. Leaflets finely and regularly toothed, oblong; petals spreading
--71a.
76a. Leaflets entire below, 3-toothed at the apex (1-3 dm. high;
summer) =Cinquefoil, Potentilla tridentata.=
76b. Leaflets toothed all around the margin --77.
77a. Leaves all trifoliate (2-5 dm. high; late spring) --17b.
77b. Some of the upper leaves merely lobed or dentate (5-8 dm. high)
(Avens) --78.
78a. Stem bristly-hairy (early summer) =Avens, Geum virginianum.=
78b. Stem softly and finely pubescent (summer)
=Avens, Geum canadense.=
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