Uncategorized
Showing 301–312 of 327 results
-
Toxicoscordion venenosum / meadow death camas
- cream to greenish-white flowers - somewhat triangular overall
- branched flowering stem with multiple flowers in a compact pyramidal head
- 6 tepals (petals + sepals), greenish-yellow nectar glands
- grass/lily-like leaves
- blooms early in the season
-
Tragopogon spp. / salsify
- large yellow inflorescence with pointy sepals extending past the "flower"
- grass-like leaves
- non-native, weed
- widespread
-
Trifolium longipes / long-stalked clover
- a (mostly) 3-leaf clover, leaves evenly colored
- leaves long and narrow (not rounded), toothed (small) margins
- leaves on long petioles
- flower heads on long peduncles,
-
Trifolium repens / white clover
- the quintessential 3-leaf clover
- white flower heads, tinged with pink (perhaps)
- found in full sun with little other specific requirements
- four leaflet leaves bring good luck
-
Triglochin maritima / seaside arrowgrass
- in bogs, fens, and roadsides through them
- "grass-like" leaves - semicircular cross section with a groove down the middle
- tall flowering spikes with many crowded, green/yellow-ish, teeny flowers
- clonal, so often in widely spaced clumps
-
Tripleurospermum inodorum / scentless chamomile
- daisy-like blossoms with finely divided leaves
- central disk shape changes from button- to dome- to hemisphere- with age
- ray petals droop as disk expands
- leaves don't smell when crushed
-
Triteleia grandiflora / wild hyacinth
- terminal cluster of several, blue (to white) funnel-shaped flowers
- 6 tepals, 3 of which look wrinkled; deep blue lines on each tepal
- only 2-3 very long thin basal leaves
- onion-like but not smelly
- mostly in grasslands - late June, early July
-
Turritis glabra / tower mustard
- long (3"-ish) stick-like seedpods, erect and hugging the stem
- nondescript mustard-family 4 petalled flowers in a cluster at the top
- tall stem with leaves clasping the stem (no petioles)
- generally in exposed, dry habitats
-
Typha latifolia / cattail
- tall, grass-like with thick, long, flat leaves
- in wet areas, especially streams and stream banks
- inflorescence club-like spike; yellow (male) above, green (female) below
- seed head dark brown club, with bare spike above
- fruits (seeds) white & fluffy, released in late summer, autumn, winter
-
Urtica dioica / stinging nettle
- near streams and moist bogs, in woodland understories, disturbed places, wastelands
- leaves - strongly serrated margin, a heart-shaped base, a pointed tip
- flower - greenish or brownish in dense dangling clusters
- nasty hairs that sting you
-
Utricularia macrorhiza / common bladderwort
- free-floating aquatic perennial; only the flowers are above water
- yellow, snap-dragon-like flowers; up to 20 per stalk; ca. 1" across
- very fine "leaves" underwater, supported by small (1/8") bladders
- carnivorous and/or symbiotic - bladders capture/digest v. small animals, harbor symbionts
-
Vaccinium scoparium / grouse whortleberry
- low growing deciduous shrub
- clonally spreading
- green twigs and small (3/4 inch), oval, light green leaves
- teeny, pendant, urn-shaped white/pink flowers
- red berries in fall
Showing 301–312 of 327 results