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Woody, Alternate, Simple, Families F-R
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- 1FagaceaeTrees/Shrubs
Alt, sim, evergreen/deciduous
Male catkins, females involucrate
Fruit = nut w/cap
Quercus (Oaks) - 2MoraceaeMostly trees/shrubs
Milky Sap!
Alt, Sim, Petiole w/top groove
Mon/Dioecious, tiny clustered flowers
Fruits multiple drupelets
(Morus, Mulberries) - 3RosaceaeShrubs/Trees, few Herbs
Alt, Sim/Comp, w/Stipules
Showy, bisexual 5merous flowers w/hypanthium
Various fruits, inc. hypanthium
(Amelanchier, Crataegus, Prunus) - 4Quercus (Oaks)Trees/Shrubs w/ scaly to furrowed bark
Alt, sim, lobed, s/t bristle tipped
Flowers unisexual Monecious, Male catkins, Female involucres.
Nuts w/ involucral cup - 5Endemic SpeciesFound in a particular area, and nowhere else.
- 6Are oaks insect or wind pollinated?Oaks are wind pollinated.
- 7Oaks are food for arthropod species. Why is that significant for wildlife?Arthropods serve as food for other species.
- 8How can you tell if a species is in the Lobatae or Quercus section?Lobatae, commonly called Red Oaks have bristle tips, and lobed leaves, with tomentose acorn cups.
Quercus, commonly White Oaks may have lobes, but they don't have these awns at the leaf tips. Cups are sparsely haired. - 9PetioleStalk between the node, and a leaf blade.
- 10Multiple FruitA fruit that develops from multiple flowers crowded into a single inflorescence. Ovary walls fuse together during development to form the fruit.
- 11Morus (Mulberries)Trees/Shrubs w/ Milky Sap
Deciduous, alt, sim, lobed or unlobed leaves
Tiny clustered greenish mon/dioecious flowers
Sweet, blackish-purple multiple drupelets - 12Red vs White MulberryM. Rubra: Riparian- moist to mesic, curved veins, hairy, black-purple fruits, hairy bud scales.
M. Alba: Disturbed habitat, straight veins, shiny, few hairs, White to black-purple fruits, Winter buds w/ dark margins. - 13Amalanchier (Serviceberry)Small Trees/Shrubs w/ smooth gray bark
Deciduous, alt, simple leaves
Flowers 5merous, bisexual w/20 stamens
Pome fruit, blue to purple - 14Crataegus (Hawthorn)Shrubs/sm.-med. trees, dense spreading branches, thorns.
Dark brown, rounded winter buds
Shallow to deep lobes, deciduous
Flowers bisexual, 5merous, 5-25 stamens
Pomes w/calyx - 15Prunus (Cherries & Plums)Trees/Shrubs, Bark w/ horiz. lenticels on branches
Deciduous, toothed, w/2 bumps on the petiole
Bisexual flowers in racemes or umbels
Fruit = 1 sided drupe - 16ThornsModified pointy branches
- 17What do the Northern Mockingbird, Brown Thrasher, Eastern Towhee, and Gray Catbird share in common?They prefer to nest in Shrubs vs trees. Towhees sometimes ground-nest.
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- Vegetative characters for families F-R of woody plants with alternate, simple phylotaxy. As usual, review questions are included. Refer to the powerpoint for their importance for wildlife. This is the last set for Test 2, which covers files 5-7.
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