Oaks, Birches, and Evening Primroses

 

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I. Order Fagales

Juglandaceae - walnut family

Juglans cinerea (butternut, white walnut)
Juglans nigra (black walnut)
Carya cordiformis (bitternut hickory)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)

Fagaceae - beech and oak family

Fagus grandifolia (American beech, beechnut)
Castanea dentata (chestnut)
Quercus rubra (northern red oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Quercus ellipsoidalis (northern pin oak, Hill's oak)
Quercus alba (white oak)
Quercus macrocarpa (bur oak)
Quercus bicolor (swamp white oak)

Betulaceae - birch family

Alnus glutinosa (European black alder)
Alnus incana [=A. rugosa ] (speckled alder)
Alnus viridis [=A. crispa] (green or mountain alder)
Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch)
Betula nigra (river birch)
Betula papyrifera (paper birch)
Betula pumila (dwarf birch)
Carpinus caroliniana (bluebeech, hornbeam, muscle-wood)
Ostrya virginiana (ironwood, hop hornbeam)
Corylus americana (hazelnut, filbert) [=Corylaceae]

Myricaceae - bayberry family

Comptonia peregrina (sweet fern)
Myrica gale (sweet gale)

II. Order Myrtales

Onagraceae - evening primrose family

Oenothera biennis (common evening primrose)
Oenothera parviflora (small-flowered primrose)
Epilobium angustifolium (fireweed, willow-herb)
Epilobium coloratum (eastern willow-herb)
Circaea lutetiana (common enchanter's-nightshade)
Circaea alpina (northern enchanter's-nightshade)
Ludwigia palustris (false loosestrife, water primrose, seed-box)
Gaura biennis (gaura)

Lythraceae - loosestrife family

Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife)
Lythrum alatum (winged lossestrife)
Decodon verticillatus (swamp loosestrife, whorled loosestrife)

 

III. Order Geraniales

Geraniaceae - geranium family

Geranium maculatum (wild geranium, crane's-bill)
Geranium bicknellii (northern crane's-bill)
Geranium robertianum (herb robert)
Erodium cicutarium (stork's-bill)

 

IV. Order Oxalidales

Oxalidaceae - wood-sorrel family

Oxalis stricta [= O. europea] (tall wood-sorrel)
Oxalis dillenii (southern yellow wood-sorrel)
Oxalis corniculata (creeping yellow wood-sorrel)
Oxalis violacea (violet wood-sorrel)

 

V. Order Crossosomatales

Staphyleaceae - bladdernut family

Staphylea trifolia (American bladdernut)

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