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Plant
special groups
composites
legumes
longevity
annual or biennial
perennial
leaves/twigs aromatic when crushed
without marked odor
clearly odiferous
Leaves
blade division
all simple
some or all fully compound
leaf attachment
sessile or nearly so
winged petiolate
stipules
stipules absent
stipules or their scars present
leaf (leaflet) margin
entire
toothed
lobed
surface
glabrous
scabrous
glandular
pubescent type
pubescent
hispid/hirsute
strigose
villous
hairs glandular
puberulent
ciliate
Inflorescence
flowering season
spring
summer
fall
winter
type
solitary
spike
raceme
corymb
head/capitate/glomerules
panicle
cymose
Flower
principal flower color
white or cream
purple
blue
yellow
corolla symmetry
regular
bilateral
number of fertile stamens
5
7 or more
ovary position
sepals/petals attached above middle of ovary (inferior or partly inferior ovary)
sepals/petals attached below middle of ovary (ovary superior)
carpel number
1
2
4
ovule placentation
axile
basal
marginal
Fruit or Cone
Fruit Dehiscence
dehiscent (splits open)
indehiscent
mature fruit dehiscence
opening along 1-2 seams
does not split open to release seed
appendages
copious hair
spines or awns
pappus
Plant providers seed and plant bed #6
Jan Busco
Species Count: 5
Asteraceae
Dieteria canescens
Gutierrezia sarothrae
Heterotheca villosa
Fabaceae
Lupinus kingii
Solanaceae
Datura wrightii