Honeysuckles and Carrots

 

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I. Order Dipsacales

Adoxaceae - moschatel family

Adoxa moschatellina (moschatel, muskroot) [threatened]

 

Caprifoliaceae - honeysuckle family

Group 1: short-styled genera [now placed in Adoxaceae]

Sambucus canadensis (common elder)
Sambucus racemosa [S.pubens] (red-berried elder)
Viburnum acerifolium (maple-leaved viburnum)
Viburnum edule (squashberry) [endangered]
Viburnum lentago
(sheepberry, nannyberry)
Viburnum opulus [V.trilobum] (highbush cranberry)
Viburnum rafinesquianum (downy arrow-wood)

Group 2: long-styled genera

Lonicera canadensis (American fly honeysuckle)
Lonicera dioica (red honeysuckle)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Lonicera morrowii (& X bella hybrid swarm)
Lonicera oblongifolia (swamp fly honeysuckle)
Lonicera tartarica (Tartarian honeysuckle)
Diervilla lonicera (bush honeysuckle)
Linnaea borealis (twinflower)
Triosteum perfoliatum (horse gentian)

 

Valerianaceae - valerian family

Valeriana edulis var. ciliata (edible valerian)
Valeriana edulis var. uliginosa (marsh valerian) [threatened]
Valerianella chenopodiifolia
(corn-salad)

 

Dipsacaceae - teasel family

Dipsacus sylvestris (common teasel) [now called D. fullonum ]
Knautia arvensis (blue-buttons) - locally established weed

 

II.  Order Apiales

Araliaceae - ginseng family

Aralia hispida (bristly sarsaparilla)
Aralia nudicaulis (wild sarsaparilla)
Aralia racemosa (spikenard, life-of-man)
Panax quinquefolius (ginseng) [special concern]
Panax trifolius
(dwarf ginseng)

 

Apiaceae or Umbelliferae - carrot family

Angelica atropurpurea (great angelica)
Berula erecta [=B. pusilla] (water parsnip)
Cicuta bulbifera (bulblet water hemlock)
Cicuta maculata (spotted water hemlock)
Cryptotaenia canadensis (honewort)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's lace, wild carrot)
Erigenia bulbosa (Harbinger-of-spring) [endangered]
Eryngium yuccifolium
(rattlesnake master)
Heracleum lanatum (American cow-parsnip)
Osmorhiza claytonii (hairy sweet cicely)
Osmorhiza longistylis (smooth sweet cicely)
Oxypolis rigidior (water dropwort, stiff cowbane)
Pastinaca sativa (wild parsnip)
Sanicula marilandica (snakeroot)
Sium suave (water parsnip)
Thaspium barbinode (hairy meadow parsnip) [endangered]
Zizia aurea
(golden Alexanders) (bulblet water hemlock)

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