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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 (leaflet) margin
entire
toothed
lobed
leaf(let) apex
acuminate
acute
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
Erysimum capitatum
Loasaceae
Mentzelia albicaulis
Malvaceae
Abutilon parvulum
Polemoniaceae
Gilia flavocincta