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Forked Chickweed,
Paronychia canadensis
Leaf blade usually dotted or blotched, elliptic to obovate, herbaceous, glabrous, per Flora of North America.
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Rose Campion,
Silene coronaria
Leaf blades with dense silky white hairiness, per Weakley's Flora (2020).
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Royal Catchfly,
Silene regia
Leaves sessile; blade 3-veined, lanceolate to ovate, rounded into base, per Flora of North America.
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Spatterdock,
Nuphar advena
Floating leaf blades 1-2x long as wide, the sinus > 1/4 as long as the midrib, per Weakley's Flora.
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Narrowleaf Pondlily,
Nuphar sagittifolia
Floating leaf blades 3-6x as long as wide, per Weakley's Flora.
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Yonkapin,
Nelumbo lutea
Leaf blades peltate, usually raised above the water, obicular, to 70cm wide, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Water-shield,
Brasenia schreberi
Leaf blades all floating, peltate, elliptic, not notched, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Eastern Columbine,
Aquilegia canadensis
The five petals have yellow blades and hollow red spurs that contain nectar, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Leatherleaf Mahonia,
Mahonia bealei
Leaflet blades with 2-7 teeth per side; leaflets very thick and stiff, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Creeping Oregon-grape,
Mahonia repens
Leaflet blades thin & flexible, 1-3 veined from base; teeth 6-24 [per side], per Flora of North America.
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Cascade Oregon-grape,
Mahonia nervosa
Leaflet blades with 6-13 teeth per side; fresh leaflets thickish but flexible, per Weakley's Flora.
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Twinleaf,
Jeffersonia diphylla
The two leaf blades are entire or toothed, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Sweetbay,
Magnolia virginiana +
Blades thin, leathery, narrowing toward both ends, silvery pubescent below, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Bigleaf Magnolia,
Magnolia macrophylla
Leaf blades heart-shaped or lobed at base, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Fraser Magnolia,
Magnolia fraseri
Leaf blades 10-18" long, 5-8" wide, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Fraser Magnolia,
Magnolia fraseri
Blades obovate to spatulate, conspicuously auriculate at the base, glabrous, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Common Pawpaw,
Asimina triloba
Leaf blades obovate, 6-12" long (generally larger than A. parviflora), per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Netleaf Pawpaw,
Asimina reticulata
Fully emerged leaf blade narrowly obovate to oblong or elliptic, per Flora of North America.
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Florida Star-anise,
Illicium floridanum
Leaves often crowded on twig ends; blades fleshy, leathery, elliptical, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Upland Redbay,
Tamala borbonia
Leaf blade leathery, elliptical to oblong, tapering at both ends, 2-8" long, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Swamp Redbay,
Tamala palustris
Leaf blade ovate to elliptic; leaf surface adaxially green, lustrous, per Flora of North America.
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Fumitory,
Fumaria officinalis
Leaves compound; blade w 3-4 orders of leaflets and lobes, surfaces glabrous, per Flora of North America.
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Cleome,
Tarenaya species 1
Leaflets 5 or 7, blade elliptic to oblanceolate, margins serrulate-denticulate, apex acute, per Flora of North America.
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Yellow Pitcherplant,
Sarracenia flava
Blade of the hood broadly reniform to orbicular-reniform, broadly cordate basally, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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Elf-orpine,
Diamorpha smallii
Plants reddish, succulent. Leaves fleshy, blades obtuse & nearly circular, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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Roundleaf Sundew,
Drosera rotundifolia
Leaf blades wider than long, suborbicular or reniform, per Weakley's Flora (2012).
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Water Sundew,
Drosera intermedia
Leaf blades longer than wide, spatulate; petioles filiform, 2-6cm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Pink Sundew,
Drosera capillaris
Leaves obovate to spatulate, petioles equal to or slightly longer than blades, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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Waterwheel-plant,
Aldrovanda vesiculosa
Leaf whorls 1-2cm in diam., bristles extending slightly beyond leaf blade, per Flora of China.
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Venus Flytrap,
Dionaea muscipula
The hinged clamshell-like leaf blades are on relatively long winged stalks, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Virginia Sweetspire,
Itea virginica
Leaf margins toothed throughout vs. Clethra alnifolia's only on upper blade, per Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers (Nelson, 2006).
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Wild Black Currant,
Ribes americanum
Leaf blade 3-5 lobed, cleft nearly 1/2 to midrib. Surfaces w sessile glands, per Flora of North America.
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Bigleaf Grass-of-Parnassus,
Parnassia grandifolia
Leaves not forming large clonal patches; leaf blades ovate, longer than wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Mapleleaf Alumroot,
Heuchera villosa
Both the lobes and the teeth of the leaf blades are sharp-pointed, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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Brook Lettuce,
Micranthes micranthidifolia
Blades of basal leaves sharply toothed, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Carey's Saxifrage,
Micranthes careyana
Leaves petiolate, the blade rather abruptly contracted to the petiole, per Weakley's Flora.
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Lance’s Hawthorn,
Crataegus lancei
Leaves often 3-lobed at apex, crenate-serrate beyond middle of blade, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).
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Woolly Hawthorn,
Crataegus mollis var. lanuginosa
Leaf blades mostly 3-5cm long, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).
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Woolly Hawthorn,
Crataegus mollis var. lanuginosa
Petioles eglandular. Leaf blades persistently pubescent abaxially, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).
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Eastern Hawthorn,
Crataegus macrosperma
Leaf blades ovate to deltate; lobes acute to acuminate, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).
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Rome Hawthorn,
Crataegus aemula
Petioles mostly <1/3 length of blade. — Ron Lance
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European Medlar,
Crataegus germanica
Leaf blades mostly oblong-elliptic, unlobed; margins unlobed, per Haws: A Guide to Hawthorns of the Southeastern US (Lance, 2014).
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Susquehanna Cherry,
Prunus susquehanae
Youngest twigs minutely pubescent; leaf blades mostly 1.7-2.5x long as wide, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Choke Cherry,
Prunus virginiana var. virginiana
Flowers in racemes in leaf axils. Leaf blades elliptical to obovate, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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a hybrid Wild Indigo,
Baptisia ×serenae
Leaflets 1-3cm+; blades obovate, cuneate-obovate or spatulate-oblanceolate, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).
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Siberian Pea Shrub,
Caragana arborescens
Leaves pinnate, 8-16-foliolate; leaflet blades oblong-obovate to elliptic, per Flora of China.
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Dollarweed,
Rhynchosia reniformis
Leaf blades rounded to kidney-shaped, 2-5cm long and wide, long-stalked, per Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011).
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Mountain Wood-sorrel,
Oxalis montana
Leaves all basal and long-stalked, each blade with heart-shaped leaflets, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Violet Wood-sorrel,
Oxalis violacea
Each leaf blade consists of 3 heart-shaped leaflets, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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Sadie Price’s Yellow Wood-sorrel,
Oxalis macrantha
Blades of the leaflets mostly 7-12mm wide, pubescent, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).
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Common Threeseed Mercury,
Acalypha rhomboidea
Petioles of the larger leaves regularly more than half as long as blades, per Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist, 1991).
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Nettleleaf Noseburn,
Tragia urticifolia
Leaf blade triangular-lanceolate, base truncate to cordate, margins serrate, per Flora of North America.
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Chamber Bitter,
Emblica urinaria
Leaf blade papery, abaxially gray-green or pale, or sometimes reddish tinged, per Flora of China.
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Red Mangrove,
Rhizophora mangle
Adaxial surface of leaf blades shiny dark green with a conspicuous midvein, per Flora of North America.
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Titi,
Cyrilla racemiflora
Leaf blades leathery, narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, glabrous, entire, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Buckwheat-tree,
Cliftonia monophylla
Lateral veins of the leaf blades scarcely or not at all apparent on either surface, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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American Holly,
Ilex opaca
Leaf blades stiff, leathery, margins wavy to sharply spine-toothed, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Myrtle Holly,
Ilex myrtifolia
Leaf blades linear or narrowly elliptical, bristle-tipped, margins revolute, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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Possumhaw,
Ilex decidua
Leaf blades widest above the middle, bases wedge-shaped, margins undulate, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).
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American Wahoo,
Euonymus atropurpureus
Leaf blades elliptical to ovate, 2-5" long, margins finely toothed, per Native Trees of the Southeast, An Identification Guide (Kirkman, Brown, & Leopold, 2007).