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Location
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Use All Records
Oregon
Washington
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Number of Flower Petals
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Note: There are some flowers that do not actually have petals.
However, some of these have other colored flower parts, such as tepals
which look like petals.
Of the 400+ genera I've reviewed so far, there are very few that I
have marked as having no petals.
Do not hesitate to leave this trait marked as UNSURE if your not certain.
Hint: A pea-like flower is generally classified as having 5 petals.
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Leaf Arrangement
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Simple or Compound Leaves
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Leaf Veins
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Leaf Margins
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Most serious references use far more catagories of leaf
margin types. I have attempted to simplify this set of traits.
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Inflorescence
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Not all genera have been evaluated for these traits.
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Flower Color
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Many references suggest that flower color is not a good trait
to use for identification of wildflowers -- in part because many species have
wide variations in flower petal color and in part because we might not all
interpret what we see the same.
I have include color in this system because for
the non-scientific among us, it is one of the most obvious traits.
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Misc Traits
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Tendrils Present
Leaf Hairs Present
Multiple Leaf Types
Stem Hairs (Spines)
Stem Spines
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Not all genera have been evaluated for these traits. So while selecting one or
more of them will narrow your search, doing so MIGHT also eliminate the genus for which
you are looking.
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