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DICOT HERBS b

strawberry

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soybean

birdsfoot trefoil

crown vetch

red clover

white clover

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lupine

water milfoil

purple loosestrife

butterfly weed

milkweed

evening primrose

fireweed

bunchberry

poison ivy

wood-sorrel

jewelweed

Queen Anne's lace

water hemlock

wild parsnip

DICOT HERBS c

MONOCOTS

evening-primrose (Oenothera spp.; EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY [Onagraceae]) A dozen species of relatively stout annual, biennial, or perennial herbs.  Showy yellow flowers (1½-2") are borne in the axils of the leaf like bracts, have a long slender calyx tube, 4 flaring yellow petals, and a prominent cross-shaped stigma.  Evening primrose flowers open at twilight, sundrops (same genus) open at mid day.  Common on road edges and dry waste places.  Flowers, then produces distinctive rod-shaped fruits throughout the summer.  [090]

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