Mustards, Mallows, and Maples

 

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I. Order Capparales

Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) - mustard family

Alliaria petiolata (garlic-mustard)
Arabis laevigata (rock cress)
Arabis lyrata (rock cress)
Barbarea vulgaris (yellow rocket)
Berteroa incana (hoary alyssum)
Cakile edentula (sea rocket)
Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherd's purse)
Cardamine douglassii (pink spring cress)
Cardamine pratensis (cuckcoo flower)
Cardamine concatenata (cut-leaf toothwort) = Dentaria laciniata
Cardamine diphylla
(broad-leaved toothwort) = Dentaria diphylla
Draba reptans
(draba)
Hesperis matronalis (Dame's rocket)
Lepidium virginicum (common peppergrass)
Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (water-cress) = Nasturtium officinale
Sinapis alba
(white mustard) = Brassica hirta & B. alba
Thlaspi arvense
(field penny cress)

Capparaceae (Capparidaceae) - caper family [now Brassicaceae]

Polanisia dodecandra (clammy weed)

Trapaeolaceae - nasturtium family

Trapaeoleum majus (garden nasturtium) -- cultivar from South America

Resedaceae - mignonette family

Reseda lutea (mignonette)

II. Order Malvales

Tiliaceae - basswood or linden family

Tilia americana (American basswood)
Tilia cordata & petiolaris (European basswoods)

Malvaceae - mallow family

Hibiscus trionum (flower of an hour)
Abutilon theophrasti (velvet leaf)
Althaea rosea (hollyhock)
Malva neglecta (mallow or cheeses)
Napaea dioica (glade mallow)

Cistaceae - rockrose family

Helianthemum canadense (rockrose or frostweed)
Hudsonia tomentosa (false heather)
Lechea stricta (prairie pinweed)


Thymelaeaceae - mezereum family

Dirca palustris (eastern leatherwood, rope-bark)

III. Order Sapindales

Anacardiaceae - sumac and cashew family

Rhus glabra (smooth sumac)
Rhus typhina (staghorn sumac)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Toxicodendron vernix (poison or swamp sumac)

Aceraceae - maple family [now included in Sapindaceae]

Acer rubrum (red maple)
Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Acer nigrum (black maple)
Acer saccharinum (silver maple)
Acer negundo (boxelder)
Acer pensylvanicum (striped maple, moosewood)
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer spicatum (mountain maple)

Hippocastanaceae - horse chestnut family [now included in Sapindaceae]

Aesculus hippocastanum (horse chestnut)
Aesculus glabra (Ohio buckeye)

Simaroubaceae - quassia family

Ailanthus altissima (tree-of-heaven)

Rutaceae - citrus family

Ptelea trifoliata (hop-tree, wafer-ash)
Zanthoxylum americanum (prickly-ash) [sometimes spelled Xanthoxylum]

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