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Plant
habit
trees
shrubs
vines / lianas
herbaceous
sap
latex absent (sap clear)
latex present
Leaves
blade division
all simple
some or all fully compound
venation
pinnately veined
palmately veined
leaf (leaflet) margin
toothed
lobed
leaf(let) base
cuneate
hastate
broadest point of leaf (leaflet)
broadest above middle
broadest at middle
broadest below middle
Inflorescence
flowering season
summer
fall
winter
flowering month
April
July
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
type
solitary
panicle
cymose
Flower
principal flower color
purple
yellow
brown
inconspicuous
perianth
calyx and corolla present
= one whorl or tepals
corolla symmetry
regular
bilateral
number of fertile stamens
3
4
5
6
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)
Fruit or Cone
Fruit Dehiscence
dehiscent (splits open)
indehiscent
mature fruit dehiscence
opening along 3 to many seams
does not split open to release seed
fruit color at maturity
brown
green
Additions to the Flora of Short Mountain
Pyne, Milo Guthrie
Species Count: 2
Aristolochiaceae
Aristolochia macrophylla
Rutaceae
Ptelea trifoliata