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Field Botany
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Cupressaceae - Calocedrus decurrens
Hybrid Yew (leaves all the way around)
Peking Cotoneaster
Bald cypress (feathery leaves)
Incense Cedar (seed cone with three splayed parts)
2. Adoxaceae - viburnum opulus
Apple
Snowball Bush
Red Osier Dogwood
Purple Ninebark
3. Cupressaceae - Hesperocyparis arizonica
Arizona Cypress (cones look like horned brussel sprouts)
Plum
American Elm
Mossy-Cup Oak (feathery acorn - middle lobes almost to middle)
4. Rosaceae - chaenomeles japonica
Flowering Quince
Silver Linden
Juniper (shrub form)
Black Pine (2 long needles in fascicle and star bud)
5. Pinaceae - Larix decidua
White Sage
Sugarberry
Bradford Pear
European Larch (short needles that circle round)
6. Salicaceae - salix matsudana var. tortuosa
Sandbar Willow
Concord Grape
Corkscrew Willow
Chinese Elm
7. Berberidaceae - berberis thunbergii
Boxwood
Sycamore (smaller leaves - maple shaped)
Japanese Barberry
Bald cypress (feathery leaves)
8. Berberidaceae - Berberis aquifolium
Tall Oregon Grape
English Walnut
Four Winged Saltbrush
Cherry Laurel
9. Rutaceae - phellodendron sachalinense
Tall Oregon Grape
Rocky Mnt. Maple
Japanese Euonymus
Cork Tree
10. Salicaceae - populus angustifolia
Norway Maple
Katsura Tree
English Oak (short petiole and and lobes at base very small)
Narrowleaf Poplar
11. Rosaceae - prunus laurocerasus
Cherry Laurel
Virginia Juniper (tree form)
European Beech
Scots Pine (2 medium needles in fascicle)
12. Adoxaceae - viburnum x burkwoodii
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13. Anacardiaceae - Rhus typhina
Rocky Mnt. Maple
Black Locust
Staghorn Sumac (Fuzzy everything!)
Weeping Willow
14. Asteraceae - artemisia ludoviciana
Common Fig
European Beech
Flowering Plum
White Sage
15. Bignoniaceae - campis radicans
White Mulberry
Big Sagebrush
Trumpet Creeper
Tulip Tree
16. Fabaceae - gymnocladus dioica
Big Sagebrush
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Bumald Spiraea
Virginia Creeper
17. Pinaceae - Cedrus atlantica
European Beech
Cliff Rose
English Ivy
Atlas Cedar (Needles star clusters and birch cone)
18. Rosaceae - physocarpus opulafolius
Burkwood's Viburnum
Western Wild Rose
Purple Ninebark
Paper Birch
19. Caprifoliaceae - kolwitzia amabalis
Inkberry
Beautybush
Hybrid Yew (leaves all the way around)
Dappled Willow
20. Fagaceae - fagus grandifolia
Atlas Cedar (Needles star clusters and birch cone)
Elderberry
Peking Cotoneaster
American Beech
21. Fagaceae - Quercus macrocarpa
Peking Cotoneaster
Mossy-Cup Oak (feathery acorn - middle lobes almost to middle)
Sycamore Maple
Bumald Spiraea
22. Pinaceae - Pinus flexilis
Squawbush
Limber Pine (Flexible and 5 short needles in fascicle)
Ponderosa Pine (3 long needles in fascicle)
Joshua Tree
23. Sapindaceae - acer palmatum
Purple Ninebark
Japanese Maple
Squawbush
Hydrangea
24. Sapindaceae - aesculus hippocastanum
Utah Juniper (one seed in the seed cone)
Peking Cotoneaster
Horse Chestnut
American Linden
25. Cupressaceae - Juniperus virginiana
Virginia Juniper (tree form)
Sweet Gum
Common Snowberry
Chokecherry
26. Buxaceae - Buxus sempervirens
Katsura Tree
Sweet Gum
Four Winged Saltbrush
Boxwood
27. Cupressaceae - Platycladus orientalis
Tamarisk (Salt Cedar)
Boxelder
Oriental aborvitae (large and horned cone)
Crabapple
28. Magnoliaceae - liriodendron tulipifera
Weigela
Tulip Tree
Catawba
Boxwood
29. Berberidaceae - berberis repens
Incense Cedar (seed cone with three splayed parts)
Redbud
Oregon Grape
Cottonwood
30. Fabaceae - caragana arborescens
River Birch
Deodar Cedar (medium needles that circle round)
Narrowleaf Poplar
Siberian Pea Shrub
31. Betulaceae - alnus incana
Rose-of-Sharon
Rocky Mnt. Maple
Hawthorn
Thin-leaf alder
32. Salicaceae - populus fremontii
Shrubby Cinquefolia
Tulip Tree
Fremont Mahonia
Cottonwood
33. Amaranthaceae - atriplex canescens
Chokecherry
American Pussy Willow
Four Winged Saltbrush
Peking Cotoneaster
34. Betulaceae - carpinus caroliniana
Burkwood's Viburnum
White Fir (rounded blunt tips - smells citrusy)
American Hornbeam
Oregon Grape
35. Rosaceae - prunus cerasifera
Japanese Maple
Flowering Plum
Black Locust
Pear
36. Berberidaceae - Berberis julianae
American Hornbeam
Wintergreen Barberry
Northern Red Oak (bristle tipped leaves)
Mugo Pine (cup shaped - shrubby - 2 needles in fascicle)
37. Cupressaceae - Juniperus sp.
Juniper (shrub form)
Rowan
English Yew (v-shaped)
False Spireae
38. Celastraceae - Euonymus fortunei
Willowleaf Cotoneaster
Four Winged Saltbrush
Climbing Euonymus
Utah Juniper (one seed in the seed cone)
39. Rosaceae - crataegus sp.
Cherry Laurel
Hawthorn
Japanese Barberry
Rocky Mnt. Juniper (smaller cones with multiple seeds)
40. Rosaceae - physocarpus malvaceus
Bridal Wreath
Climbing Nightshade
Ninebark
Wintergreen Barberry
41. Rosaceae - spiraea x bumalda
Bald cypress (feathery leaves)
Bumald Spiraea
Bridal Wreath
Plum
42. Hypericaceae - hypericum frondosum
Golden St. Johnswort
Bearberry Cotoneaster
Climbing Euonymus
Forsythia
43. Rhamnaceae - frangula alnus subsp. baetica
Alder Buckthorn
Japanese Maple
Crabapple
Weeping Willow
44. Sapindaceae - koelreutaria paniculata
Cork Tree
Golden Rain Tree
Sweet Gum
Lilac
45. Fagaceae - Quercus robur
Desert-Willow
Chokecherry
English Oak (short petiole and and lobes at base very small)
Pottawatomi Plum
46. Ephedraceae - ephedra viridis
Purple Ninebark
Common Snowberry
Mormon Tea / Green Ephedra
Cork Tree
47. Taxaceae - Taxus x media
Lilac
Hybrid Yew (leaves all the way around)
Red Osier Dogwood
Willowleaf Cotoneaster
48. Rosaceae - prunus armeniaca
Apricot
Hedge Maple
Utah Juniper (one seed in the seed cone)
Willowleaf Cotoneaster
49. Ulmaceae - celtis laevigata
Sugarberry
Mormon Tea / Green Ephedra
Lilac
Chokecherry
50. Ulmaceae - celtis occidentalis
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Juniper (shrub form)
European Hornbeam
Common Hackberry