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DICOT HERBS a

DICOT HERBS b

strawberry

cinquefoil

blackberry

raspberry

wild rose

soybean

birdsfoot trefoil

crown vetch

red clover

white clover

sweet clover

alfalfa

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

bunchberry (Cornus canadensis; DOGWOOD FAMILY [Cornaceae])  Low-growing native perennial herb with a woody rhizome.  Leaves opposite but appearing to be a whorl of 4-6 at top of stem, with distinctive, conspicuous veins.  One or 2 pairs of tiny leaves lower on the stem.  Cluster of small monoecious green flowers surrounded by 4 large white petal-like bracts in spring and early summer.  Bright red berries in a tight terminal “bunch” ripen in late summer.  Moist forests, bogs.  [092]

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