Oaks, Birches, and Evening Primroses
Next Lecture 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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