3/4/10!1!Convolvulaceae - morning-glory family!Ipomoea purpurea!Morning-glory: cultivated!CA 5 CO (5) A 5 G (2)!Flowers strongly funnelform with plicate corolla tube (with fold lines). Fruit usually capsular.!Largely tropical family of 55 genera and nearly 2000 spp. Twining herbs with alternate leaves.!Convolvulus - bindweed!Convolvulaceae - morning-glory family!Calystegia sepium!Hedge bindweed!Note: 2 large bracts below calyx!Convolvulus arvensis!Field bindweed!Note: no floral bracts!Cuscuta spp. - dodder!Convolvulaceae - morning-glory family!3/4/10!2!Cuscutaceae - dodder family!Cuscuta gronovii!Common dodder!Cuscuta glomerata!Rope dodder!Boraginaceae - borage family!Widely distributed, large family of alternate leaved plants. Typically hairy. Typically possess helicoid or scorpiod cymes = compound monochasium. Many are poisonous or used medicinally.!Mertensia virginica - Eastern bluebells!Boraginaceae - borage family!CA (5) CO (5) A 5 G (2)!Gynobasic style; not terminal style which is usual in plants; this feature is shared with the mint family (Lamiaceae) which is not related!2 carpels each with 2 ovules are separated at maturity and each further separated into 1 ovuled compartments!Fruit typically 4 nutlets!Myosotis - forget me not!Boraginaceae - borage family!Echium vulgare!Blueweed, viper’s bugloss!adventive!3/4/10!3!Boraginaceae - borage family!Hackelia virginiana!Beggar’s-lice!Myosotis scorpioides!Common forget-me-not!Boraginaceae - borage family!Lithospermum canescens!Hoary puccoon!Lithospermum incisium!Fringed puccoon!Boraginaceae - borage family!Lithospermum canescens!Hoary puccoon!Boraginaceae - borage family!Mertensia virginica!Eastern bluebells!Botany 401 final field exam plant!!3/4/10!4!Hydrophyllaceae - waterleaf family!Hydrophyllum virginianum - Common waterleaf!Similar to Boraginaceae with distinctive hairs and now placed within it.!Style terminal, not gynobasic; leaves compound or lobed and “water-marked”!Botany 401 final field exam plant!!Oleaceae - olive family!CA (4) CO (4) or 0 A 2 G (2)!• Woody plants, opposite leaves!• 4 merous actinomorphic or regular flowers!Syringa vulgaris - Lilac!cultivated!Oleaceae - olive family!Forsythia suspensa!Goldenbell, forsythia!introduced!Ligustrum vulgare!European privet!planted, invasive!CA (4) CO (4) or 0 A 2 G (2)!• Woody plants, opposite leaves!• 4 merous actinomorphic or regular flowers!Oleaceae - olive family!Fraxinus pennsylvanica - Red, green ash!• Ashes have compound leaves, other genera are simple!• Ashes have diamond-shaped furrows on the bark!Male flowers! Female flowers!• Ashes are unisexual, other genera are bisexual!CA (4) CO (4) or 0 A 2 G (2)!3/4/10!5!Oleaceae - ash family!Fraxinus americana!White ash!• Ashes have 1-seeded samaras!• Note opposite, compound leaves and furrowed bark!Fraxinus americana!White ash!Lamiaceae - mint family!CA (5) CO (2+3) A 4,2 G (2)!• Strong odors (mint, peppermint, sage, rosemary)!• Squarish stems with opposite leaves!• Flowers in verticels = clustered flowers at a node!Lamiaceae - mint family!CA (5) CO (2+3) A 4,2 G (2)!• Strongly 2-lipped corolla with 4 or 2 stamens inserted!• Bilabiate — family is called Labiatae!Lamiaceae - mint family!CA (5) CO (2+3) A 4,2 G (2)!• Strongly 2-lipped corolla with 4 or 2 stamens inserted!• Bilabiate — family is called Labiatae!• Important for bee pollination - key innovation for Salvia?!3/4/10!6!Lamiaceae - mint family!CA (5) CO (2+3) A 4,2 G (2)!• 2 carpels but gynobasic as in Boraginaceae!• 4 nutlets!Lamiaceae - mint family!Glechoma hederacea - creeping charlie!Naturalized and invasive!Lamiaceae - mint family!Leonurus cardiaca - motherwort, naturalized!Cardiac glycosides such as leonuridin!Lamiaceae - mint family!Lycopus americanus!Water horehound!Lycopus uniflorus!Water horehound!3/4/10!7!Lamiaceae - mint family!Monarda punctata - horsemint, spotted bee-balm!Monarda fistulosa - bee-balm, wild bergamot!Lamiaceae - mint family!Nepeta cataria - catnip! Prunella vulgaris - selfheal!Lamiaceae - mint family!Scuttelaria parvula!skullcap!Salvia -sage!(ornamental)!Verbenaceae - vervain family!Verbena hastata!Blue vervain!• Like Lamiaceae!• Squarish stems with opposite, serrate leaves!• Inflorescence often spike-like!• Flowers with terminal style, not lipped!• Fruits usually nutlets (but not gynobasic) or drupes!CA (5) CO (5) A 4 G (2)!3/4/10!8!Verbenaceae - vervain family!Verbena stricta - Hoary vervain!Verbenaceae - vervain family!Phyla lanceolata - fogfruit!Phyrma
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