School Assignment: Need to identify these wildflowers (pics included) asap

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  1. KristenDawn

    KristenDawn Member

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    I'm taking an AP class and had to do a wildflower project. I have identifed thirty or so that I collected but can't figure these eleven out. Please help this is half of my quater grade and due very soon.

    I collected all these flowers in the Southern Indiana Kentucky area. From August to pretty recently.

    Flower 1: one.jpg

    Flower 2: two.jpg

    Flower 3: three.jpg

    Flower 4: four.jpg

    Flower 5: five.jpg

    Flower 6: six.jpg

    Flower 7: seven.jpg

    Flower 8: eight.jpg

    Flower 9: nine.jpg

    Flower 10: ten.jpg

    Flower 11: eleven.jpg
     
  2. lorax

    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    For #1, look at Phytolacca
    For #11, try Oenethra

    It is MUCH easier to ID things like this from live plants... I'm sure others will be along who recognize the remaining flowers, though.
     
  3. Andrey Zharkikh

    Andrey Zharkikh Well-Known Member 10 Years

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    Means "Oenothera"
     
  4. thanrose

    thanrose Active Member 10 Years

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    #3 & #4 are likely polygonums of some sort. #4 hit me that way from a thumbnail, but #4 could be, too. What color were the flowers? Smartweed is a common name. I had it growing prolifically when I lived farther north, with pink florets that stay tight in that raceme. There are white flowered smartweeds, too. Some grow in swamps, some in disturbed places, edges of woods.
     
  5. KristenDawn

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    Thank you.
    These were from the first fifteen collected, I went ahead and pressed them after picking them, then found out how much harder it is to ID them that away. So the next thirty I picked were ID'ed before I pressed them.
    The flower colors were as follows:
    Yellows: 1,2,5,7,8,9,10 and 11.
    Purplish/Pinkish/Or a shade of blue: 3 and 4.
    I can not remember what color #8 was.
    Again thank you all so much.
     

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