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
24a. Leaflets linear-oblong, 2 cm. long or less; stamens 5 or 10
(3-6 dm. high) (Partridge Pea) --25.
24b. Leaflets lanceolate-oblong, 2-5 cm. long; 7 stamens with
normal anthers and 3 with imperfect anthers (8-15 dm. high)
=Wild Senna, Cassia marilandica.=
25a. Anthers 10; flowers 2-4 cm. wide
=Partridge Pea, Cassia chamaecrista.=
25b. Anthers 5; flowers 5-10 mm. wide
=Partridge Pea, Cassia nictitans.=
26a. Silky-hairy with whitish hairs; flowers marked with purple
(3-5 dm. high; summer) =Goat's Rue, Tephrosia virginiana.=
26b. Glabrous or nearly so (summer) (Milk Vetch) --27.
27a. Flowers greenish cream-color (4-10 dm. high)
=Milk Vetch, Astragalus canadensis.=
27b. Flowers white (3-5 dm. high) =Milk Vetch, Astragalus neglectus.=
28a. Flowers in heads, umbels, or short dense spikes --29.
28b. Flowers in loose racemes or panicles --42.
29a. Flowers bright-yellow; decumbent or ascending plants (spring and
summer) --30.
29b. Flowers white, cream, purple, or red; never yellow --34.
30a. Whole flower only about 2 mm. long; pod coiled --31.
30b. Flowers larger, each one 3-6 mm. long; pod straight (1-4 dm.
high) (Hop Clover) --32.
31a. Flowers numerous in each head =Black Medick, Medicago lupulina.=
31b. Flowers in clusters of 2 --20 =Bur Clover, Medicago hispida.=
32a. Stipules linear =Hop Clover, Trifolium agrarium.=
32b. Stipules ovate --33.
33a. Heads densely flowered; flowers 20 or more; upper petal striate
when dry =Hop Clover, Trifolium procumbens.=
33b. Heads loosely flowered; flowers usually 10 or fewer; upper petal
scarcely striate or not at all =Hop Clover, Trifolium dubium.=
34a. Leaves palmately compound, the 3 leaflets all from the same
point (late spring and summer) (Clover) --35.
34b. Leaves pinnately compound, the terminal leaflet on a distinct
stalk --39.
35a. Individual flowers sessile, or on very short pedicels --36.
35b. Individual flowers distinctly pedicelled --37.
36a. Heads oblong, on distinct peduncles; calyx longer than the
corolla (flowers nearly white; 1-4 dm. tall)
=Stone Clover, Trifolium arvense.=
36b. Heads nearly globose, almost sessile, closely subtended by the
leaves; corolla longer than the calyx (2-8 dm. high; flowers
red-purple) =Red Clover, Trifolium pratense.=
37a. Stems prostrate or creeping; heads long-peduncled, arising from the
creeping branches (flower-stalks 1-2 dm. high; flowers white)
=White Clover, Trifolium repens.=
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