Key

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Plant
  longevity
   annual or biennial
   perennial
  leaves/twigs aromatic when crushed
   without marked odor
   clearly odiferous
Leaves
  arrangement/phyllotaxy
   basal
   alternate
  venation
   pinnately veined
   palmately veined
  leaf attachment
   sessile or nearly so
   leaf stalk (petiole) clearly present
  stipules
   stipules absent
   stipules or their scars present
  leaf/leaflet shape
   linear, acicular, subulate
   lanceolate
   oblanceolate or spatulate
   ovate
   elliptic
   deltate or rhombic
  leaf(let) apex
   acuminate
   acute
  leaf (leaflet) margin
   entire
   toothed
   lobed
  broadest point of leaf (leaflet)
   broadest above middle
   broadest below middle
  surface
   glabrous
   scabrous
  pubescent type
   pubescent
   hispid/hirsute
   strigose
   puberulent
   branched, stellate, dendritic
   hairs hooked or barbed
Inflorescence
  flowering season
   summer
   fall
   winter
  flowering month
   Feb.
   June
   July
   Aug.
   Sept.
   Oct.
  position
   in axils of leaves
   terminal
  type
   solitary
   raceme
   cymose
Flower
  principal flower color
   white or cream
   purple
   blue
   yellow
   orange
   red
   pink
   brown
  calyx (sepal) fusion
   sepals separate (polysepalous)
   sepals fused (synsepalous)
  corolla (petal) fusion
   petals separate
   fused, at least toward base
  stamen fusion
   fused to each other (e.g. monadelphous)
   fused to corolla (epipetalous)
   distinct, attached on or below ovary
  ovary position
   sepals/petals attached above middle of ovary (inferior or partly inferior ovary)
   sepals/petals attached below middle of ovary (ovary superior)
  ovule placentation
   axile
   parietal
Fruit or Cone
  Fruit Dehiscence
   dehiscent (splits open)
   indehiscent
Misc.
  vegetation type
   tropical deciduous forest
   thornscrub
   woodland
   montane forest
   chaparral

Willow Creek

Julie Alpert and Robert Faught
Species Count: 4

Brassicaceae

Loasaceae

Malvaceae

Polemoniaceae